Measure your life

Measure your life:

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Measure your life.

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Track it.

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Track your progress.

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See how far you’ve come.

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Here’s how I’m doing it.

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Journaling.

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Writing down my thoughts and ideas on each day.

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I’m now at day 2500.

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7 journals and counting.

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Lots of memories.

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Lots of moments.

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Lots of reflections.

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I can tell you what I was thinking about or doing on most days since October 2018.

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Pretty nuts.

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When I started journaling, I didn’t know how long I would keep it up.

Didn’t know how far it would go.

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Now I know it’s forever.

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I’ll be a writer forever.

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Till I die.

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Constantly getting my ideas and thoughts on paper, no matter how nuts or crazy they may seem.

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They won’t be for everyone.

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That’s fine.

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They’re for me.

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All of this is.

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To track my life.

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To track my progress.

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To see my ideas as moments in time.

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Look at my blog since 2021.

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1100 blog posts and counting.

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On everything.

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Whatever I was feeling and thinking about that day.

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Some of the posts I don’t remember.

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Can’t recognize.

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But they’re me.

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At least a part of me.

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And that’s really cool to see.

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I remember hearing Gary Vee say this years ago.

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Keep track of your life.

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Write it down.

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Write down your thoughts and feelings as you go through life.

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The example he gave was Jeff Bezos.

This was when Amazon was at the peak of the market.

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The most valuable company in the world.

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The way he said it was - how cool would it be to see what Jeff Bezos was thinking 20 years ago as he was building Amazon?

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That always stuck with me.

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The journey of life is way more important.

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People celebrate him now because of how far he’s come.

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But everyone started from nothing.

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To see how he rose from nothing to starting the most valuable company in the world would be something.

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Now imagine that for you.

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You will never be Bezos.

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But that’s ok.

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The things you keep track of are worth it for the next generation.

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For your kids.

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For your future self.

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It’s putting together small moments together that you’re future self can reminisce on.

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I started doing this thing after uni.

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Learned it from a friend of mine.

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Shoutout to Tonaii.

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When we were in uni, he started collecting everything.

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Tickets.

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Wrist bands.

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Magazines.

Gifts people gave him.

Then he built a collection.

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A collection of all the places he had been during uni.

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He put it up in his room as a reminder.

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A memory bank.

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I thought it was the coolest thing.

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So I started doing that in 2018.

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Collecting small things.

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My goal is to eventually put all of them together in an incredible art piece.

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I can’t wait for that day.

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It’s a collection of memories.

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Collection of stories.

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Collection of my life.

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You should do the same.

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Keep track of your life.

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Not just the wins.

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But the losses.

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The feelings.

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The emotions.

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The heartbreak.

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The struggle.

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Keep track of it.

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Write it down.

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Collect moments.

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Collect small things.

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Keep track of your life.

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Even if you don’t care about it today, someday, someone will.

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I genuinely can’t wait to see my kids and grandkids read my stuff.

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It’ll be so worth it for that, even if no one else reads it till then.

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I remember telling a friend that the reason I started writing and to keep writing is for myself.

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I’m my audience.

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I wanted to create content that would help teach a person about the world.

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As many aspects of it as possible.

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The way I thought about it was if I gave all my book notes, blog posts, books and journals that I’ve ever written, could someone become pretty smart about the world?

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My answer is yes.

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The breadth I’ve gone on my blog is something I’ve not seen from anyone ever.

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So why can’t I do it?

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Why not me?

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This is all fun to me.

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A fun side project.

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It’s a side project to see how much I really know.

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All I’m doing is collecting moments.

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Writing them down.

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Ideas that come to my head.

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Verbalized.

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Do the same for you.

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Your future self will thank you.

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Your kids will thank you.

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Your grandkids will thank you.

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Find ways to measure your life.

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