11:36 pm, Friday, September

I’m sitting alone in a dim room, the table lamp casting a soft glow. Wrapped in a blanket to fend off the cold,
Staring at my laptop I realize for months, I’ve felt lost—drifting without a clear direction. Now, in this quiet moment, it hits me how far I’ve come

quick overview of what’s in this edition 2

1. Life update

2. The feeling of being directionless and confused

3. Change everything in the next three months

4. Document this journey because…

5. Resources of the week

Life update

last week has been filled with ups and downs, not just in terms of work but overall self

I was struggling with thoughts like where is time going so fast? why am I not able to complete my input goals? This made me think about whether I am valuable and capable enough. Perhaps I have more things on my plate than I can handle!

I usually don’t get too stressed about things but this time it felt different, one of the reasons could be that only 3 months are left before the year ends

I ignored my studies a lot and now I am almost 2 weeks behind my study plan. Anxiety is at its peak… I need to fix it right now

On Monday, I was at the hospital to remove a skin infection which was in my head using electrocautery. I had to trim my hairs for the treatment.

One great learning was that we should be grateful for the life we have without any big problems because It just takes one disease to end it all. So always focus on improving your environment, health, and mind.

we went to 56 Dukaan In INDORE to eat food.

I had to complete the work for 3 clients, had a team meet and the next thing I saw was that it was time to study but I wasn’t even halfway there, so I postponed my studies.

A day later I had no idea what I did because I had these negative thoughts about myself like I hadn’t posted content, I was not even doing my best at the job

Later It was a bit productive to get done with one client's work and binge watched almost the whole module of a course till night.

Got done with one more client’s work and went for a long walk to refresh my mind.

Now I am a little bit more focused.

I am writing this content batch for Samarthmahajxn and a new page
which is not finished yet but I have to do it by today or tomorrow. Plus I have to record these videos too before Sunday.

Now let’s move forward to the bigger picture which is the reason why this week was not good. let’s go!

The feeling of being directionless and confused

I’ve always suffered from this feeling and still, I do feel it sometimes but now I have the bigger picture in mind of what I need to achieve so it helps me stay on the track

In the last few weeks, I felt like I was directionless so I sat down with myself and asked some tough questions like

what are the things that I don’t want in life? answering this gave me the direction where I didn’t want to go.

For a few hours, I went in deep and tried to figure out what are the things that I want to achieve in life. Everything from material to nonmaterial things.

Then further I set some new standards for myself and trust me this step is so crucial in this journey because if you don’t have the right standards, you’ll lose.

I like this quote by Dan Koe
You aren’t where you want to be because you are okay with where you are in life.

By standards I mean, what content I consume, where I spend my time, what books I read
Unless you don’t know what you are going to consume, you’ll end up consuming shit.

Break down your vision into goals in years, months, weeks, and days.

Over time, I’ve realized that you should be stubborn with your vision and loose with details because goals change as you change.

After making several mistakes this year now I live by a simple principle in life that
Long term goals are for direction and short term goals are for clarity.

Turn your goals into projects and start working on them
after doing this deep talk with myself I had a direction in front of me.

moving forward there are a few things that I want to remind myself to change the complete game in the next 3 months….

Change everything in the next three months

It’s not hard to plan things, still, only a percentage of people do
It’s not hard to execute it, still, only one percent of people do

We start something but we quit in 3-4 days… what to do?
It’s hard to digest but the only thing is that you are not putting 100% effort

maybe you have some kind of addiction that’s stopping you. Let’s be honest here no one is coming to save you

I also procrastinate, I don’t study, and I use more social media than I would like to admit.
I can still do a lot in the upcoming months because I know everything can’t be perfect on the first day, but it will be with time. Changing a life is not a race it’s a marathon.

Alex Hormozi shares the mental frame that he uses in the hard times which I love

To give our best in these 3 months I’ve reminded myself to not repeat any mistake that I made before in this journey

commit to yourself, trust the process, and start…

one lesson I learned in the entire year is
Don’t fear starting when you are at zero and don’t stop when you achieve your first milestone.

Now we’ve decided to go all in let’s talk about

Documenting this journey

I don’t care if you document your journey or not but I do it for myself

I’m sure you must’ve experienced that months go by and you can’t remember where the time went. Sometimes we can’t even remember what we did yesterday

This is one of the most uncomfortable feelings for me and to avoid it I’ve started documenting my journey in the newsletter, personal journal, and YouTube videos

It helps me reflect on my journey, keep track of my goals and habits, and become self-aware.

I can document my failures, wins, transformations, ups and downs and I can convert them into content which I am doing right now if you think about it.

so here’s what you need to do
Buy a journal, notebook whatever you like, and start documenting your journey every day

At the end of each day reflect on your whole day and mention one thing that you did wrong and one thing that you did right

Do this every day for 3 months (90 days) without fail. Even if you spent your whole day scrolling, write something. Make a promise that you’ll write at least 1-2 pages daily.

Try this for just a week and you won’t regret it.

Resources of the week

I hope you enjoyed reading the second edition of this newsletter

see you next weekend!

Thank you for reading
Samarth.