HeyJaredLazy but Ambitious
Gentle reflections on ambition, rest, and self-growth - for the quietly ambitious who want to do more without losing themselves, and build a life that moves with ease, not urgency.
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Your To-Do List Is Rewiring Your Brain to Fear Rest (opens the original)
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It’s 2am, and you have that sudden urge to plan out your life and tell yourself you’re going to change. So you get your notes app out and start planning your life like it depends on it, to the point it ends up looking a little bit like this:05:00 Wake up + meditate06:00 Gym 07:00 Shower08:00 Breakfast09:00 Work 17:00 Finish work18:00 Dinner 19:00 Work on your side hustle 22:00 SleepAnd you swear you're actually going to do these every day. HOLD UP. Where is the resting?
Two-Thirds of Your Day Isn't Even a Choice (opens the original)
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You ever get to the end of a day and have absolutely no idea what you actually did with it? Not in a “I was so busy” way. In a “I genuinely cannot account for the last twelve hours” way.Yeah. That’s autopilot. And I’d bet you’re in it way more than you think.Here’s the uncomfortable stat: roughly two-thirds of what you do in a day isn’t a decision, it’s a habit running on repeat. Your brain does this on purpose, it’s efficient, it saves energy, it means you don’t have to consciously think throug
What to do when your goals don't align with you anymore (opens the original)
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I quite literally woke up the other day and realised my goals I set last year no longer align with me.You know that sense of realisation? I had that. I picked up my journal straight away and looked at a list I wrote twelve months ago… I felt absolutely nothing. No excitement, no pull, not even resistance. Just a “well, I don’t vibe with that anymore”.Join the 600+ people learning how to live the lazy but ambitious way<form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"
You don't need to believe in yourself. you need receipts. (opens the original)
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You know that advice “just believe in yourself”? Yeah, I have beef with it.Not because self-belief is a bad thing. It’s not. But telling someone to “just believe” without anything backing it up is like telling someone to just be rich. Cool, thanks… erm how do I do that?Let’s talk about confidence, there are two types and only one of them I believe in.The first kind is confidence built on hope. This is the affirmations-in-the-mirror, manifest-it-into-existence, “I am successful” energy. And liste
Get Paid Just to Hold a Stock (opens the original)
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Imagine getting paid quarterly by a stock you’re investing in? Well, guess what? That is exactly what dividend stocks are. You quite literally get paid to just hold the stock. Some stocks pay you biannually or quarterly. I will also go through some examples below. But first, we need to talk about what dividends actually are.So dividends are essentially a share of company profit paid out to shareholders like you, usually quarterly (some biannually). When it comes to dividends, there are a few ter
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