Thanks for commenting, Eli. That's a crazy long time to be reading my blog... it's sometimes hard for me to fathom that people have read it that long. I appreciate it, especially since the blog has gone through so many weird phases along the way.
Some random advice: don't drink or do drugs for a year. Just try it, it's nothing permanent. If you can't do that, you have an actual problem. If you can do it, you'll know whether it's helping or hurting you. Either way, a new perspective should be useful.
To work on focus + drive, pick an incremental goal (income +10%, 1 new friend, rough draft of some project online, etc) and work on it for one hour every day. In that hour your phone is off and all you can do is work on it or stare at the wall. No other activities no matter what. Staring at the wall is 100% ok.
If you choose to take the advice and stick to it, send me an email in a year.
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Another long time reader here - probably 18 years now and I’ve gone back and read everything from the beginning (in a weekend).
One night I was struggling to make progress on some projects - it was the drive not the skill or energy. I asked Claude to read your blog and coach me like you would. (BTW, is that creepy to think of from your perspective?).
What’s amazing is Claude gave almost the exact same advice about incremental progress as you just wrote to Eli.