ATTN: The audio quality significantly improves after the two (2) minute mark. 

This episode is a little out of the left-field because of its lack of structure, use it a general reminder, hopefully, you find Oliver's ambitions as amusing as he did.  

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Note: This was written in March 2020.

When you are consistent with a new habit, you must reward yourself. Imagine you are the boss of yourself. Order yourself to go to the kitchen and do a few dishes and then tell yourself that if you do this, you will reward yourself with a few minutes on Tiktok or YouTube; you get the idea.

When you interview for a new role at a corporation, you are expected to negotiate a salary, apply the same logic to your day. This way, the relationship becomes a 'give and take'. When I have busy days, I allot time for myself throughout the day to maintain my productivity. In other words, after I work on something for an hour or so, I will get up and have a chat with my grandmother or whatever. Not everyone can sit down for prolonged periods without respite. Use common sense. Be strict and when you perform, reward yourself. You deserve it.

Recreation is important. The word 'recreation' means to 're', 'create', when you reward yourself you are also 're' 'creating' yourself, you will find that when you force yourself to do a task that you do not want to do and then relax, that relaxation becomes so much sweeter because you earnt it.

The ultimate goal is reaching the point where your perspective for tasks you did not want to tackle in the past shifts. You will notice that cumbersome tasks become less so, and the mental warmup that you used to undergo disappears. You will become the master of yourself. You shifted the paradigm, an employee, to a boss.

To encourage you, I want to give you a personal example. I have been enrolled in university for over seven years (intermittently). There was nothing in this world that could make me sit down and study. Nothing. I even changed my degree to something that I enjoyed, and when that did not work, I changed my university! That did not work either.

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