HeyJaredBetter You
My personal notes on discipline, business, and life, for those who choose character over comfort.
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I've built my entire career on lies I had to make true. (opens the original)
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Before COVID, I was doing a very basic desk job, earning just enough to have nothing left by the end of the month.I seriously wanted to earn more, either by doing something online or by learning a high-income skill and switching to a better job.I had a friend who was on the same page as me. Doing a job he didn’t love, and looking for some opportunity to earn more.From the very beginning, I’ve disliked two types of things:Anything people promote as a get-rich-quick schemeAnything where luck plays
The art of beginning anyway. (opens the original)
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I was writing my 2025 resolutions in my journal when I flipped back a few pages and found something I'd written two months earlier: a name for my newsletter, a rough outline of what it would be about, and even some ideas for the first few posts, and somehow I still hadn't taken a single action on it.And even on that day when I found it again, I had absolutely no shortage of reasons why now wasn’t the right time to launch it.I’ve started a lot of things in my life. Some worked out, most didn’t, a
If you feel like you're working hard and going nowhere, read this. (opens the original)
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Lately, you’ve been carrying a specific kind of weight you can’t fully put into words. You can see the destination clearly in your mind. You know where you want your life to go, but you aren’t there yet. And that gap, that empty space between where you’re currently standing and where you desperately want to be, is starting to feel heavier with each passing day.Some days you wake up completely electric, convinced that today is the day everything finally falls into place. Other days you can barely
How to level up so fast it feels illegal. (opens the original)
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I - Everything starts with identityThis is the biggest reason behind who I am today. I identified who I wanted to be, and did the things that person would do.Because you can’t become someone you can’t think of. And you can’t do something you can’t imagine yourself doing.That’s why I believe everything happens twice. Once in your mind, then in reality.How do you do it?First, think of who you want to become. How would that person spend their days? Go into as much detail as you can:What time do the
learning vs doing: the dilemma (opens the original)
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There’s a wave going around right now about how learning and gathering knowledge is just a fancy form of procrastination.And I’ve been part of that wave myself. I’ve said it multiple times through my posts. I’m an action first person. I believe in jumping in, making mistakes, learning from them, and going again.But every now and then, life reminds me this isn’t always the right approach.A few weeks ago I started playing chess a little more aggressively.And for a while now, I’ve been stuck betwee
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