Doubling Your Value Everyday

So this post is partially borrowed from a friend of mine who gave his permission for his words of wisdom to be used by me (mostly because the point is that it's good advice and insight to get out into the world, not to horde for oneself), and those words are as follows:

"The Value of yourself today should be double your value yesterday and half of your value tomorrow. You should do your very best today, in order to make a foot hold on tomorrow. Tomorrow you work twice as hard and the cycle continues. Never settle for 'Just good enough' with ANYTHING. Instead focus on tomorrow's reward starting today."

It's a lofty goal for sure, and I think that my main hurdle in trying to look at my life this way in the past has been to get caught in this trap of lazy procrastination and despair over failure. It's basically the opposite view of the old slacker adage, "Why do today what I can put off until tomorrow?" But I think the point, at least at first, is not that you have to be perfect in carrying this out but that you should always try as hard as you can. Even if you don't succeed one day, you pick up the next and do everything you can to achieve it.

Confession time: I was kind of slack yesterday. My ADD and affinity for naps got the better of me, and I did not end up accomplishing very much. But today I approach it with this attitude; I will accomplish everything I had set out to do yesterday and then some because I am completely capable of this.

In rpg terms, everyone wants to level up in life. But what does it take? It takes action, and yes, oftentimes, it also takes adventure. It involves fighting your fears head on and taking those little nuggets of knowledge you gain from them to make yourself a more valuable hero. It's just like knocking out those pesky enemies and capturing the coins that fly out. Life is series of opportunities to gain XP.

Don't just sit on the map, tapping your foot and looking at your watch. Grab those rings!