Get Unrealistic
There is a process that I have used, and still use, to reignite life...👇
Create two timelines—6 months and 12 months—and list up to five things you dream of having (including, but not limited to, material wants: house, car, clothing, etc.), being (be a great cook, be fluent in Chinese, etc.), and doing (visiting Thailand, tracing your roots overseas, racing ostriches, etc.) in that order.
If you have difficulty identifying what you want in some categories, as most will, consider what you hate or fear in each and write down the opposite.
Do not limit yourself, and do not concern yourself with how these things will be accomplished. For now, it’s unimportant. This is an exercise in reversing repression.
Be sure not to judge or fool yourself. If you really want a Ferrari, don’t put down solving world hunger out of guilt. For some, the dream will be fame, for others fortune or prestige. All people have their vices and insecurities. If something will improve your feeling of self-worth, put it down.
Drawing a blank? In that case, consider these questions:
What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank?
What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?
Don’t rush—think about it for a few minutes.
If still blocked, fill in the five “doing” spots with the following:
one place to visit
one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime) one thing to do daily
one thing to do weekly
one thing you’ve always wanted to learn
What does “being” entail doing?
Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable. Identify an action that would characterize this state of being or a task that would mean you had achieved it. People find it easier to brainstorm “being” first, but this column is just a temporary holding spot for “doing” actions.
Here are a few examples:
1) Great cook —> make Christmas dinner without help
2) Fluent in Chinese —> have a five-minute conversation with a Chinese co-worker
Determine three steps for each of the dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.
Define three steps for each dream that will get you closer to its actualization. Set actions—simple, well-defined actions—for now, tomorrow (complete before 11 A.M.) and the day after (again completed before 11 A.M.). Once you have three steps for each of the four goals, complete the three actions in the “now” column.
Do it now. Each should be simple enough to do in five minutes or less. If not, rachet it down. If it’s the middle of the night and you can’t call someone, do something else now, such as send an e-mail, and set the call for first thing tomorrow.
If the next stage is some form of research, get in touch with someone who knows the answer instead of spending too much time in books or online, which can turn into paralysis by analysis.
The best first step, the one I recommend, is finding someone who’s done it and ask for advice on how to do the same.
We added a new section in the Next.js Docs: Caching
↳ nextjs.org/docs/app/build…
Here's the TLDR for those who want a better understanding of the different caching layers and how they relate to Server Components and newer APIs:
I've spent months collecting the best AI cheat sheets.
Here are the top 8 AI cheat sheets that will save you hours of work (for free):
1. Ultimate ChatGPT cheat sheet
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I've watched over 4,325+ hours of YouTube videos.
Wasting 90% of that time watching useless videos…
Here’s my 3 step guide to summarizing Youtube videos using only ChatGPT (Bookmark to use later):
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To start building with AI:
Turn off your notifications for a week, and focus on these two:
• Python
• Langchain
Here is an example where you'll build a bot that can answer questions from a YouTube video and deploy it in just a few minutes:
Todays update:
Improve chatGPT queries to generate a sentence w/definitions of all the words in the sentence. Query is slow but coming together.
Added UI to underline all of the words & added a tooltip with definition and how to sound the word out 👍
Shohei Ohtani is the best baseball player on the planet.
While talented but he's been using a forgotten system of goal setting since he’s been in high school.
It's called the Harada Method & here's how it will help you achieve your biggest goals: