0 Normal Day Motivation

_25.6.2021_ This morning. It's not special day. It's a normal day. I wake up in the morning and do what I always do, and others also do what they always do. The pattern doesn't really change except I change it consciously. Usually it won't be so long until it comes back to the baseline, to normal. To create a new normal is almost impossible. Actually there is no such good habit or bad habit, just habit. I don't believe that bad habit is especially easier to be adopted. It is so because people believe it so. It's self-fulfilling prophesy. What is believed becomes reality. Those who believe that reading habit is difficult or even impossible, they are right, those who believe the opposite are also right. Everything depends on the mind. Therefore educated people tend to be more successful in life because they have the right mindset to be one. Years ago, if I had to apply for a job, I would apply based on my self-worth. I would never apply to high salary job. I was not for me. I was normal people and didn't deserve to even want it. This mindset was the cause that I didn't have good job in the past. Most people put really low price to their time and labor. Either way, they are right. How I respect myself is the standard guide for others to respect me. No one will value me more than I value myself. Therefore I must put high value to myself, my time and my labor. A writer, like me will wake up every morning and facing blank page to be filled with sentences. Teachers go to teach, farmers go to their field to cultivate soil, and workers go to their office and factory. They do what is necessary to survive, day in day out. They follow their unwritten schedule every day. If I ask someone to do something they do not normally do, maybe they will say "I can't do that". For example to read for one hour every day. They will say "I don't have time, I can't do that, and so on..." But if I pay them to do so, it becomes their job and doing it is just so normal and natural. Pay people and they will do almost any work. If I give them $10 per hour for reading, they will gladly read for ten hours per day, or exercise, meditation, anything important. If they really do read about four or five hours every day during their school years, it's sixteen years, they will be highly successful in the workplace. Because they are better than everyone else. I didn't do it myself. I hope I did it. Now because I understand English, I think more rationally than most people around me. I value myself more and I use my time and energy more effectively. Overall I am happier than most people. I won't work for others just for minimum salary. If I used all my 15 hours a day to learn something and to earn money, I believe that I will be much better than renting out my time, doing anything people ask me for little money. According to Naval Ravikant, there are three factors if someone wants to be rich; 1) Have something important to do, creating products or owning a business, 2) Find the best partners to work together, and 3) Work as hard as you can. If I really do all these three things, I will be poor for ten years and then become rich after that. He said, "be impatient with the work and be patient with the result". But if I renting out my time, I will never be rich. For me it's very logical and obvious. To be rich, one must stay poor and work as hard as possible for years. The most dangerous things are opium and monthly salary. Now it can be social media and monthly salary. It's very addictive and make you forget about your dream. The best advice I've ever heard so far. I guess very few people comprehend this and even fewer will apply this to their life. I'm about to apply this but then I get married. I need to have a stable income. I need monthly salary ever than before. I can see the irony and I can't do much about it. But I got the idea to value my time to the highest possible. I won't waste it as I did in the past. For example I will write every day for my blog and edit videos for my YouTube channel. Now I still have about 45 days before my wedding day. I will use the time as best as I can to improve my skill. I value my time much more than ever, that's the most important thing that I get from Naval Ravikant's advice. I will plant trees as well so in five years I'll get the result. It's a kind of infestation. I must do infestation as much as possible. If I do that, in five years I will be rich. It's not impossible at all. It's mathematically valid and should be done by everyone. Learning a new skill is also a good infestation. In five years I will be able to speak mandarin and Japanese fluently if I invest my time like three hours a day for five years. Now I can see myself getting better and better. It's just about mindset. I will continue reading more and learning Mandarin more, this can be my valuable asset in the future and help me a lot in my life. I should have deleted my social media accounts but for now I just open them less and less often. I'm not addicted anymore. Now it's the time to build a good habit that will make me rich and successful in five to ten years. It must be something that will earn money for me while I'm asleep. One thing I realize from my past habit is that I quit too early. In writing I would stop after a page only. Actually if I could deal with uncomfortable, I can keep going and write a lot longer. It's indeed about comfort and the fear of others' judgment. To be poor for ten years and work as hard as possible is indeed uncomfortable. If I work, I should save most of the money I earn to start my own business after several years. It will be uncomfortable to be regarded as poor. But that's the best way to be rich. I'm a bit late but it's not too late. The best time to plan a tree is fifteen years ago, the next best time is now. That's the plan, and it will go well as long as I work as hard as possible and upgrade my knowledge every single day from now on to the end.