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Notes to Myself

Notes to Myself

Most of these are notes to myself. If you find something that resonates, I'm glad. If not, that's cool too 🙌

These are reminders, insights, and truths I've gathered along my journey. Also from observing and talking with my best friend Carlos S, family, people I'm grateful for and respect, and learning from thinkers like Naval, Marcus Aurelius, Osho, and various philosophical and historical stories like the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Taoism and more.

Notes

You saw your internal BS, you fool yourself in unhappiness. My mind is a master storyteller, especially when it comes to crafting narratives of suffering. Most of my unhappiness is self-manufactured through the stories I tell myself about my circumstances.

Happiness is a choice. I need to remember this daily. It's not about what happens to me, it's about how I choose to respond.

I choose happiness and peace above all the things.

Joy for me is doing what I like to do and with the people I like.

I am not the body, I am not the mind. I am the observer, not the observed.

I am my own prison and most of the time I am in love with it. Be aware.

It's hard to change others, 99% of time it will lead to resentment.

The more desire I have for something to work out a certain way, the less I see the truth. So always be vigilant that you are not losing the truth.

I can passionately work on at most 2 things. Formula for getting into habit is get obsessed with a thing for initial moment and you will get into the cycle.

Impatient with actions. Patient with results. Think of your body transformation journey.

You should learn to balance things. By balance it doesn't mean you have to be always 5 on 1-10 scale. Sometimes I need to be a 7, sometimes a 4. The key is knowing when to be what.

It's about the number of iterations. It's not 10000 hours to mastery but 10000 number of iterations. It's not about repeating but error corrections and learning.

From coding and this hacker culture I've realized I can build anything whatever I want if I put my mind into it and geek about it. Not limited to coding but also to life. The builder mindset applies everywhere.

Don't remind yourself about past you have already digested things which you want. Don't make sense to reminisce it.

You should not suffer in this life constantly. It's on you how you interpret things, be happy. Remind yourself of death.

I want to be that guy who is happy, peaceful, enjoying life, meditative, blissful, spiritual, as healthy as I can be and successful and rich and not give a damn about any of it. If I lose any of it tomorrow I still wanna be happy and peaceful. We need happy people in this world. Somebody has to be that person, it might as well be me.

Hard Truths

I always hear them:

  • Money won't make you happy.

  • The breakup will be a blessing in disguise.

  • You'll regret working too much.

  • She's not your soulmate — she's just hot and hard to get.

  • Worrying doesn't help.

  • Your fears are pointless.

  • You should call your parents more.

  • Cut toxic people out of your life.

Lol even if it all feels cliche, I should remind myself because it's been tested by time.

These notes are living documents - they evolve as I do.

What matters isn't perfection, but progress and the willingness to keep growing.