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How to Cut The Bullshit & Focus On What Matters The Most

Nate Anglin
7 min readOct 9, 2022

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People “waste” 625 hours of their life every year.

It’s not all their fault. Everything is designed to suck your attention into a vortex of wasteful crap that doesn’t matter. It’s meant to tickle your brain while slowly extracting meaning from your life.

Dreams are crushed because people focus on the wrong things.

According to research, “The average person’s thumb travels the equivalent of two marathons (52 miles) a year scrolling through sites like Twitter and Instagram.”

Waste is a disgrace. The body benefits from great exercise, not just the thumb!

Think of what you could accomplish if you got back one month of your life each year.

You invested time developing an essential skill.

You spend more time being present with loved ones.

You took on a new project that motivates you in a purposeful way.

Your time on this planet is finite, so where your focus goes, everything else flows.

Time is Your Master

As we age, we view time as something we control.

As if time is a resource to be used. We then become pressured to use time wisely and criticize ourselves when…

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Nate Anglin
Nate Anglin

Written by Nate Anglin

Small Biz Investor, CEO, & helping others improve their performance, profit, & potential w/out sacrificing what’s most important. www.nateanglin.com/newsletter

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