Health

When focus slips, whatever the time of the day, don’t push through. See it as your cue. Step outside, get in nature and let it do what caffeine can’t.

Wealth

Relationships

Examine the relationship with yourself and your goals with @bradstulberg's post. 

Freedom

The Domino Effect

We like Dominos, not the greasy pizza kind, but the ones with numbers etched into them.

They are great for metaphors.

That's why inside the Evolve Journal and the Academy, we work on a Domino Goal. The one goal that has been achieved has the highest impact and biggest knock-on effect. 

We would rather measure twice and cut once, we would rather spend 8 hours sharpening the saw and one hour cutting than 8 hours cutting with a blunt instrument. 

So what if you could cause a massive chain of dominoes with a single well-placed flick?

A 2-inch domino can knock over a 3-inch one. Keep going, and by the 29th domino, you’re toppling the world's tallest building.

At no point in that sequence did you need to push harder.

You start by pushing the right first piece.

The right move now can create momentum that makes everything else easier or irrelevant.

Health

I recently got a Garmin watch, it's a smartwatch that gives me all sorts of data. Here are a few things I have noticed with my sleep since wearing it.
 
My sleep score is the best (time asleep and the quality of the sleep with more deep and REM sleep over a night) when I:
- Go for a brisk walk in nature as soon as I wake up, without my phone
- I have been a busy boy, fitting in exercise and a good amount of work
- If I go to bed at the same time and leave an hour before bed with no screens
- If I use nasal strips so I can breathe through my nose without them its flat out mouth breathing
- I haven't eaten or drank too close to sleepy time 

My sleep score is the worst when:
- I do the opposite of all of the above
- When I drink alcohol
- I am in a new place
- I haven't journaled before bed

Aiming for perfection every night is setting yourself up to fail, but it is helpful to know the true cost of doing or not doing some things. Sure makes you think twice.

Wealth

"What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?" - Marcus Aurelius

Relationships

It’s surprisingly easy to get swept up in the visible.
To justify working 10 extra hours a week for a couple more letters after your name.
To accept a two-hour daily commute in exchange for a 30% salary bump, before the taxman even sharpens his pencil.
To chase the next promotion, the next big project, the next quantifiable tick-box.

We live in a world obsessed with metrics. KPIs. Milestones. External validation.
These things go neatly on your CV. And because they’re easy to show, they become the things we chase.
But one day, hopefully a very long time from now, someone will stand up in a quiet room, clear their throat, and try to summarise who you were.
And they won’t talk about your job title.
They won’t mention your income bracket.
They probably won’t even remember what car you drove.
 
Instead, they’ll talk about how you made people feel.
Whether you were kind.
Whether you showed up.
If you made people laugh.
If your kids felt seen.
Whether your friends knew they could call you at 2 a.m. and you’d pick up.
 
And if you’ve spent years optimising for your CV…
That eulogy might come with a caveat:
"He was always stressed."
"She was rarely present."
"He loved his family, but work always came first."
This isn’t intended as a guilt trip, instead a pulse check and for some, maybe the start of a course correction.
 
A chance to ask yourself:
Am I building a life that looks good on paper, or one I’d be proud to be remembered for?
 
Take two minutes today and write your answer.
 
What’s one thing I can do this week that my eulogy would thank me for?

Waste no more time.

Freedom

If you’re not ready to live the life it takes to reach the goal, let go of the goal. It’s easier to change the dream than to carry the weight of one you’re not willing to pursue.

Health

"No matter how dark a place you are in, it can get better. 2 years ago I was in the darkest place of my life, 2 years later we have made history." - Marcus Skeet (@thehullboy) 

Nice work Marcus...

Wealth

I read a lot of finance and wealth-related books (if you like them too happy to give my top recommendations). From reading a ton I think one common theme appears across all advice in this space is...
 
You seldom get rich by renting your time, you build wealth by owning things that grow in value.

That could be equity in a business, property, a personal brand, or even investing in yourself and your skills that compound over time.

What’s one thing you could start building, creating, or investing in this month that will still be growing 5 years from now?

Relationships

Most of the time, we’re held back not by real obstacles, but by imagined judgment, the stuff we think up in our over-worrying minds, often from people whose opinions we shouldn’t care about at all. 
 
If they’re not living your life or helping you chase your goals, why should their opinions shape your actions?
 
Journaling Prompt:
What’s one thing you’re afraid people might think about you right now?
Whose voice is it really, and why are you letting it influence your path?
What would you do differently if you stopped giving weight to opinions that don’t matter?

When I did this I realised the people I was most concerned about were the imagined masses, no one even specific and I came to see that it was just noise inside my head stopping me from doing the thing.

Freedom

Can you think of a better skill to develop, that is technically possible for all of us, than the ability to be in a good mood despite the absence of things to be in a good mood about?