I know what it means to gain someone's trust and to have it withdrawn from you. It can be a slow climb to reconciliation even after forgiveness. Trust is a precious 🎁. It's a super expensive currency above money. It generates profit for me even while I sleep. I have tasted what it means to be involved in work you enjoy, where time is eternal, and 8hrs seems like 1hr, where the weekend is a distraction, and the weekdays are action 🎬 packed! I know how it feels to be praised monumentally and to be bashed for one error, with all your good works in the past forgotten. The praise of men is like chewing gum, never to be swallowed. I am a long-term student of delayed gratification. I know how it feels to want to spend on yourself but have to arrest that desire so others can be helped. I am a decade long in that school. It's a school that seems to have no graduation date yet. I am aggressively looking forward to the days when I can have my desires fulfilled as well as that of o...

Routines help. There are days of strength and days of weakness. Days when you have fire in your bones, days when you feel deflated. Routines help with synchronization. There are days I wake up feeling as if my day was aimless. But when I remember my routine, I have something I can use to coordinate myself, otherwise I will feel I wasted my day. These routines are definitely defined and preplanned. You cannot be creating one on the day you need it. It just reminds you that there is work to be done, deliverables to be delivered. It keeps me in check. It takes 69 days to create a habit. Consistency is mighty. The results are beautiful if you do the discipline. I am always reminded by Robin Sharma in his book, the 5 am club, that "successful people (like me) have formed the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do. Top producers make it a habit to do the high-value activities that average ones don't feel like doing, even when they don't feel like doing them.”