I have a new profile picture on the blog. Did you notice? Of course, you did. You are a smart cookie. I kind of regret doing it. That sounds strange. I will explain. I recently started following popular YouTuber Ali Abdaal. I subscribe to his newsletter, which comes out on a Sunday. Today is Monday. It came out yesterday, obviously.

I won’t recall the newsletter verbatim. There are laws against that. He spoke about how when people, like me, are trying to “make it on their own” and start “following their dreams” there is a pitfall that a lot of us fall into early on.

The crux of it is, we spend time on pointless work and not the important stuff. For me, I should be prioritizing showing up every day to write on this blog. It is a not-so-subtle way of giving me an excuse to write. This is what my priority should be daily. Today, instead of writing this blog in a finite amount of time, I decided to change my profile picture on the blog to match all my other social media accounts (links at the top of the page, by the way).

Some would also call it procrastination. I don’t really know what to call this particular situation, but it isn’t being very productive. That is what it boils down to. We shouldn’t be concerned with the little things until the big things are out of the way first. I know I don’t have to tell you that. We all know this.

This may be an unhealthy attitude to have, given how I am a student of stoicism and memento mori is a real thing, but I hold this attitude on days like this. The attitude I hold can be summed up as “maybe tomorrow”. Whenever that thought crosses my mind I always think about the song by Stereophonics of the same name.

I am busy today. I have appointments. Tomorrow, I currently have nothing major scheduled. It’s important to give some leeway but also promising yourself you will get it done by at least tomorrow. My favourite YouTuber Matt D’Avella calls this the “two-day rule”. It may sound like a cop out, but it keeps my sanity.

That’s all I have to say today. My laptop still hates me. I love my friends and family. Thank you, as always, for reading.

Thank you for your time.