The 10 Stupidest Things I Did Last Year

A shortlist of things that winners don’t do.

A stupid thing I did last week: stopped traffic so I could wave these red crossing-the-street flags around.

2021 was a wild year.

Through the last year, I’ve started a business, competed in Jiu-Jitsu more than 10 times all over the US, gotten nearly 3 million views on my writing, and published 2 ebooks.

I did a lot, learned a lot, and, in a surprise to no one, I fucked up a lot.

I wrote a lot of articles on life lessons and self-improvement, but I also fucked up most of my decisions and got worse in many areas of my personal life. Whoopsies.

Funny how that works. However, of all the dumb things I did last year, a few stand out among the rest.

Here are 10 stupid things I did in the last year that I’m looking to improve on this year.

I invested in people based on their potential.

Potential is fun, but it does not equate to anything.

The people around you are not stocks and they aren’t NBA draft picks. Don’t invest time, money, and energy in them based on “where you see them going”.

I was too scared to invest money in my career.