From @Evan Thomas : This is an area to share and discuss ideas that help you move forward in life. We'll discuss how to add to your skill set and hone the one you already have. Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility! It will be a place to discuss mindset, removing bad habits and creating better ones, entrepreneurship, sales, understanding that it's our duty to become the best version of ourselves. Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility!

This is a great new interview with business leader Ed Mylett. He talks about how to maintain high standards and staying motivated to achieve your goals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7RfQ5NBC8

Looking forward to this channel 👍🏼

Indeed.

1. Wake Up Early ☀️

Actually, I’d like to contribute to this if it’s okay. Since I’m a wee bit older, I may have some good advice if you guys are interested in hearing it. It’s taken me *years* to develop the foundations of what I believe are necessary for personal development. Those foundations I think are stability and routine.

I feel like stability - that is, the mitigation of daily chaos - is trickier for younger people since younger people’s live tend to be in constant transition. High school to college or military, job changes, constant moving around, and the emotional turmoil that goes along with dating and changing mates and friends.

Having life stability is what allows you to establish the second foundation, which is routine. Routine is what allows you to practice and perfect what you want to be good at. I feel like athletes have the best grasp of routine - they know that they have to constantly focus and refocus in mitigating life chaos, and routine is what allows them to do that.

So, stability and routine ftw.

Would stability roughly equate to 'knowing what is going to occur in your day before it starts'?

Yes, though that may be more the routine part. Stability is more big picture., e.g. knowing that you’re going to be in one place, one job, one emotional state for a predictable period of time. That allows you to generally know what likely to occur in your day to day life which is what let’s you establish routine I feel like.

So stability is more of a macro-level concept and routine more micro-level.

Yeah I think that’s a great way of putting it.

One recommendation for success is using a to-do list/reminders app. I use the iOS built-in Reminders app; there may be a better one. Absolutely any time I conceive of some task I need to perform in the future -- whether later that night, later that week, in the distant future, or in the indefinite future -- I make a reminder, including any notes for specific practical advice I want to give to my future self, according to how far in the future it might be. Then that bane of productivity, where tasks 'fall through the cracks', becomes impossible.

This doesn't explain the best way to go about one's to-do list (e.g. distinguishing between high- and low-priority tasks, or separating a particular time of day to perform certain tasks in isolation from communication channels), but it ensures that one's to-do list is complete.

Sometimes it's tempting not to make a reminder, because hey, I can easily remember to do X in a few hours, right? But oftentimes Y, Z, and other tasks-to-do also arise, putting a strain on your memory and possibly leading to some anxiety as you try to keep them all in your mind by not focusing on other activities on which you should be wholly focused. But if you make a reminder, then the worst-case scenario is you wasted 30 seconds up front by creating a reminder for something you already remembered to do.

Lastly, sometimes I'll make a reminder for a task that I recall sans reminder -- but the only reason I even remember the task is because I went through the effort of making the reminder in the first place. So the actual act of creating the reminders aids our memory in this limited respect as well.

I do this too. I keep a general calendar which not only includes work tasks and family tasks, but also hobbies and academic pursuits. @Brandon Ironside- ND and I have talked quite a bit about this. We call it having goaltism.

@Evan Thomas I really liked the part in the video where he says to think about or write down everything you are thankful for. I need to do that

There's a youtuber I follow named Grahm Stephan, I may be spelling that wrong. Anyhow, he does finance videos about buying houses and if that's somthing anyone is interested in I'll post a link below

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCV6KDgJskWaEckne5aPA0aQ

@Zyzz Writing down anything that's important to you is vital. Especially goals. What gets measured gets done. If a goal isn't written down with a deadline attached, it's not a goal; it's just a wish or an idea that you will likely never achieve.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOBcDr39rIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdiApKj3QPg

@celticflame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6zxA9qyU7w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWtY0ejM7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW6oSyhmbqc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2A1TCA-HjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZjxaw9TH48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqJJ98cTLzc

Out of all of the factors necessary for success, continued focus and action on clear goals is the most critical of all.

More on goals...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJR9FPJ4exY

Let me get uhhh, one order of direction in life, and a side of uhhh, possible outlets and resources to achieve a sense of what I want to do.

Hahaha

I graduated high school in June and then I went to Germany to see my girlfriend for a couple months (No, I met her IRL and have been with her IRL, not E-dating) and I've come back to my parents telling me I need a plan by November or else I am getting kicked out of the house.

So yea

Ever consider the military?

Don’t say anything about muh zog either lol

I haven't

I just don't think that would be for me

My dad went into the Air Force before I was born so he could get his college paid for.

I mean

I've thought about it

And given the time frame I have of being able to like start a family and live with my gf, it would make sense.

A military - like option, that teaches you skills, keeps you in shape, makes you a badass AND helps your community is Wildland firefighting.

And there's never been a large scale Forest Service deployment to Israel, as far as I know. lol

I am submitting an application to a welding school right now, but I am not entirely sure that is what I want tbh. I'm good at it, but it costs money that I don't have and I am not sure I'd be alright with doing that for the rest of my life.

That sounds pretty rad actually

It is the most brutal work, but you'll make an extraordinary amount of money and come out the other end jacked and grizzled.

I've never done it myself (too tall to cut line), but I took fire classes and supported on perscribed burns. I've done trail crew, which is the diet version.

If I was under 25 and under 6'6" I'd do at least one season of wildland fire.

That sounds awesome actually.

I hate having to work making food for ham planet NPCs

It sounds like it would actually be having a positive benefit on society, like something important was actually being done. And, I'd be out in the woods doing something cool.

I feel like I'd have to relocate for that though, Michigan doesn't really have very many wildfires.

Here's some propaganda: https://youtu.be/QxJFIfkOQLY

There is "Diversity," but since the job is hard, affirmative action hires don't stick around long.

Michigan does have a lot of National Forest land, though, and therefore, probably crews. In the spring/fall they probably do some perscribed burns or trail work and then get deployed out west during the summer. Yes, you'd have to be away from home for a while. Do you have children / dependent elders?

No sir

Wife/fiance?

The only thing I've got is free time

Yes

Honestly it sounds great.

I wonder why I've never heard of this before

Give it a look. Be aware that USA jobs website is an absolute nightmare and takes forever.

Yeah

I am looking at mufrti.org rn

Sometimes jobs will train you, but having your red card does make you more competitive. Veterans and Injuns get preference, so the more you can do to compete with them the better

or should I be on fs.fed.us

https://www.nwcg.gov/how-to-become-a-wildland-firefighter

This is a good tutorial.

Well, the plan was to get into trade school after the winter and do that and get my cert. and then maybe move over to Germany until my gf gets on her own two feet and out of her sort of highschool/college hybrid.

That was the like

1 year kinda plan

1-2 plan

Ah. Well, if you don't drink it away, a season can net you 20k easily. Which could help you into trade school and Euro-GF help

But I don't think I will have the money for trade school and I am not a fan of being in debt and I would've liked to make sure that I could spend time with her every other season.

I don't know/think trade school has summer breaks, but lots of people just do summers.

I mean, she is coming here for Christmas and ideally summer, but idk this deal with this one that I am applying to rn.

Trying to figure out their course times and all that jazz.

Ah. Well a good GF is worth quite a bit. And with welding you can earn a good living, relatively dox resistant (not proof) too.

(nothing is dox proof)

If we lived within the same country, she probably would be more than a gf tbh.

But things work differently over there.

Schule uber alles

All that shit

Women usually go to college and have a family at like 30

Which is not happening

So I have to make the job fit around that for sure.

This NWFT thing says I need to be affiliated with other sorts of forestry organizations

Like department of homeland

Hmmm... well I'm in school and affiliated that way.

You can apply to jobs as a novice though.

I know that for sure.

To what jobs?

wildland fire
https://www.usajobs.gov/ - you make a profile there first (lol it's down, how typical)

Nice

And then after you've made a detailed and throrough (But truthful) resume, you can just select and apply

Filter by agency (forest service and bureau of land, although don't sleep on indian bureau or fish and wildlife), and look for "forestry / range technician/aide"

That's the actual job

You can spam and apply for them all, but so can everyone else. It's a brutal slog. The good news is once you've worked for a season you have an in and, if you survive / enjoy the experience, returning is much less painful bureaucratically.