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If You Focus On These 4 Things, Your Life Could Look Completely Different In One Year
How I redesigned my life.
Here’s my 2022, in review:
In writing, I wrote over 200 articles on the internet (factoring in my ghostwriting clients and my former freelance clients, it’s probably closer to 300).
I competed in 10 Jiu-Jitsu tournaments all over the world (8 in the US and twice in Europe), I had the best competition performance of my life, won the biggest cash prize I ever have, and I went and competed internationally for the first time in my athletic career.
Then, I did it a second time a few weeks ago.
I had enough success in the first part of the year that I was able to quit freelancing and devote all of my time to the stuff I love doing — writing and training/teaching Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
This was a huge win for me. I was so happy with this accomplishment… for a while.
After the excitement wore off, I wasn’t happy anymore. I got kind of depressed and I also got really burnt out. My body started breaking down on me and my mind was fed up with everything.
Everything was wrong. I achieved some really big goals and on paper, I was supposed to be living my dreams, but existentially, I was not where…
