GM!

Buff here.

In a fast pace world today, it seems like everyone is so busy working and no one seems to be living anymore.

Everyone seems to be rushing everything, workout for 1 hour on the dot at 6am, 5 minutes shower, inhale breakfast and coffee, run straight to work, once done with first job, dive head first into side hustle for couple of hours, some go into night school to get their first or second degree, sleep and repeat it the next day.

Whenever there’s time for a short break between those routine, go into social media and scroll endlessly to find some words, picture or video to make the day feels a little bit better.

It seems like stopping just to take a breath, sleep for another extra hour and enjoy sunset will put you behind.

I thought “Is this the only way to live now?”.

No wonder everyone is exhausted because we burning candles on both end.

Same goes for me and I believe there’s gotta be a better to live.

Less is more

My plate is currently full with:

1. Improving my health

2. Working full time job

3. Trading cryptocurrency

4. Investing in stock and ETF

5. Building my first online business

6. Being a husband, son and friend

7. In the process of building our first home

I juggle all of it everyday and I find myself close to burning out, again.

Whenever I find something starting to slip because I simply don’t have the energy, time or mental capacity to deal with it anymore, I know I need to take things out of my plate.

Number 1 priority is my health, physically and mentally because without it I can forget the rest. I speak from experience because I sacrifice myself to chase my goals before but when I crash and burn, none of it matters anymore so doing more is not always a good thing.

Working full time job support our living situation so can’t drop that, being a husband and building our home is another full time job at home that can’t be dropped.

So what’s left are trading cryptocurrency, investing and building online business. All of this is a good thing to build but good thing is not always the right thing to do, at least not now.

What I drop first would be building online business because trading and investing is something that I already do for years where I already automate most of the process.

I just started going into building online business and writing is part of it. The pressure I put on myself to write everyday and publish newsletter every week needed to be toned down to avoid burning out, again.

I will continue to hone my writing skill through publishing monthly or bi-monthly, at least until we finish building our home.

So how come less is more?

For me, by keep doing more I will inevitably burn out which resulted in me having nothing and by doing less I will finish what I want to finish even though it takes longer, but it is still something which is more than nothing.

So how is this connected to trading? Hell if I know but if I burn out, unhappy and emotionally unstable, my trading result would reflect that as well.

I write this after coming back from sunset beach walk with my puppy where I stop, smell fresh ocean breeze and contemplate on life and I thought

Be kind to myself first, the world can wait.

I am not here to change the world, become a multibillionaire or trying to impress strangers online.

I just want to be able to do more of the things I love and less on things I hate the older I grow.

Slow down and live your life.

Cheers,

Buff