I love motivational speeches. Especially from great athletes. Michael Jordan, Cristiano Ronaldo, Khabib etc. I get so pumped up. And then procrastination sits in. You go back to your old ways. Oh well. All the talks about hunger, drive, grit and what not. You go to bed, hoping that your dreams will (at the very least) appear in your dreams.

Having listened to many such speeches, the key takeaway for me is to be consistent. Consistent in what you do. It can be training, it can be a way of working. Be consistent first. Seek improvement next. You don't always need to be competitive. Sometimes (or most times) there is no competition. It's just you and your goal. So be consistent in your work. Always turn up. Like Woody Allen said "90% of success is showing up". Get up, get changed, get going, get doing, get it done.

No guarantee you are going to succeed soon (of it at all). But don't be obsessed with the outcome. It will come. The process is what matters. Refine it if possible. Or change it if it is not working. But to continue working you must.

-SMN-

20 years

 Come 30th August, it will be 20 years since i started this blog. 

Thanks to Google for keeping this blog alive. I started blogging somewhere in 2003 (it was different site - called pitas). Started right after I was done with secondary school and awaiting to start my course in polytechnic. 

A typical daily journal. Some days exciting. Other days monotonous. Mostly filled with days of skateboarding, footballing and self-deluding thoughts on finding my dream girlfriend.

That was 20 years ago. I was 20 years old. Now, I am forty years old. Many changes for sure. For the better? I hope so. 0-20 years old, the phases of life in that period. And 21 to 40 years old, the phases of life in this period. Further broken down to a 4-5 years sub-periods, one will find phases that are exciting and sometimes boring (adulting). If only i had documented down my thoughts regularly in this blog. I could have tracked the changes during the different phases.

Once again, I am guilty of not keeping up with blogging. Last entry was in May 2024. 2 years have since passed.  Will do better in the future (hopefully!).

-SMN-