Happy Wednesday, Wise Owl Nation!

This is the 99th issue of this humble little newsletter!

For 99 weeks in a row, I have graced your inboxes.

We enter a new era next week my friends, and I will thank you both now and next week for being along for the journey.

For this week, we continue the theme of 'rebuilding your life' by talking about how not to waste your time and energy. We are rebuilding our lives, after all, there shouldn't be room for activities that we find to be wastes of time.

Let's get into it.

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🧠 Wisdom Tip(s) of The Week: Defend Your Time

Last week I gave you a homework assignment.

That assignment was to spend the week thinking about what an ideal average day would look like for you.

I also did this homework, and while I was doing it I realized that it was almost more of an exercise of defining what I don't want than it was an exercise to define what I did want.

"It's better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people.

It's better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn't matter.

It's better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain." - James Clear

It's interesting how often we allow ourselves to be around people that are terrible for us, or to spend time doing activities we absolutely don't enjoy doing.

When building an ideal average day, you can't allow people, places, or things that don't serve you to be a part of those days.

I write all the time about the importance of consistency on the path to success. It is much easier to be consistent with something that you actually enjoy. Have you ever noticed how much stronger your willpower is when you're doing something you like to do?

If you cut out the toxic bullshit, you will have more willpower to stay consistent with the things that matter.

This cycle reinforces itself - because if you cut out the people, activities, and things that are weighing you down while focusing on the people, activities, and things you love it almost doesn't matter how long it takes to find success.

With that extra willpower, you'll find it much easier to look for reasons why things will work, versus looking for reasons why they won't.

"Every great opportunity has many reasons why it could fail. You have to trust your ability to solve problems along the way.

People who look for reasons why things won't work, struggle to take action.

People who look for reasons why things will work—and solve problems as they arise—make things happen." - James Clear

My ideal average day:

• I wake up early, before everyone else
• In that time alone I go through a morning routine that primes both my mind and body for the day
• I complete an intense 45-minute workout
• Spend several hours writing
• Between 11 AM-1 PM I break from writing and spend an hour studying poker and eating lunch
• The rest of the afternoon and early evening I am grinding poker either online or at a local cardhouse
• Around 6-7 PM I end my poker session and spend the rest of the evening doing something fun with my fiance or with friends

In 2022 I have three primary objectives. I have objectives next year instead of goals, and I will explain more of what that means next week, but this ideal day of mine pushes me towards achieving all 3 objectives.

My objectives in 2022:

• Earn $30,000 profit playing Poker
• Get in the best shape of my life (drop down to 15% body fat)
• Write 25 chapters in my Fantasy Fiction book series

Ethereum Stats:

Total ETH burned - 1.2 million ETH (or $4.5+ billion!!)

ETH burned in the last week - 50,000 ETH !!!! 😱

Avg ETH burn per minute (all-time) - 6.28 ETH/min

My favorite website for watching the ETH 🔥 is ultrasound.money.

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Have a great week!

This concludes our issue this week, I hope it gave you some perspective or injected a little motivation into your life!

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More Resources

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Crypto Resources

The Bankless Podcast: This is a link to the bankless podcast on Spotify. Start from the very beginning and learn why I am so positive about the power of Crypto and Ethereum in particular. You can find the podcast easily on the internet, but I am linking to episode 1 on Spotify for your convenience.

Buy your first ETH or BTC:

• On Coinbase - this is the easiest starting place for the newest beginners
• On Gemini - Another great option founded by the Winklevoss brothers. They are based out of New York.
• On Kraken - Kraken has a bit of a harder user interface, but they already have ETH staking enabled with the push of a single button.

Earn interest on your crypto

• BlockFi - Currently, you can earn 4.5% interest on BTC, 5% interest on ETH, and a whopping 8.25% on stable coins like USDC. Use the referral code b09f24fd to support the newsletter.

Other tools:

• Argent Wallet - This is the best mobile wallet for Ethereum, Defi, and all things on the Ethereum network, including staking. They even have plans to implement Layer 2 to remove network fees.
• Ethhub - this is a weekly newsletter that lists out all the interesting news, articles, and tweets that have happened in Crypto that week. It's free and awesome.
• Ethdashboard - A simple dashboard to look at various metrics in the ethereum space. I mainly use this as a quick tool to check ETH gas fees.
• Cointracker - this is one of the better tools for tracking all of your various crypto across all of the various wallets, exchanges, etc. You can also use them to do your crypto taxes each year.
• Metamask - this is a crypto wallet that you can access from your browser and allows you to easily interact with blockchain apps online.