The Framework That Changed My Day-To-Day Life

Live in day-tight compartments.

I know this is easier said than done, but let me explain.

I play tennis, and in doing so, there are multiple highs and multiple lows throughout a match.

The beauty of it is the fact that you can be on top of the world at one moment, thinking you could beat anyone in the world.

Then, a couple of minutes later, you start to lose a few points, get 'unlucky', and it all comes tumbling down, and you start to doubt yourself more and more until it all gets too much, and the match is over.

You’ve lost.

If you look at a match of tennis, it is the accumulation of several small points that all stack up to an outcome that is either a win or a loss, depending on how you play throughout the match.

Pretty similar to our day-to-day lives, right?

It’s so easy to get caught up in the future, with the fear of the unknown always taking away from the present moment.

This could happen. That could happen.

But is it going to happen today? More than likely not.

I all honesty, it probably won’t ever happen, but because it’s built into the human psyche to always fear the worst, it’s so easy to worry about a problem that’s yet to arise and slowly ruin our lives because of it.

This is why living in day-tight compartments is so important.

All you have is right now.

All you can do is what you can do at this very moment.

In the match, focus on what you can do right now and in this point (day).

Not the previous points (days), or the ones to come.

And if you can stay at it long enough, winning each point as it comes, you might find yourself winning the match.

If you constantly get caught up in the past or the future and worry about what’s occurred or what could happen, your life is going to slowly deteriorate, and you’ll look back, thinking to yourself, ‘What the fu*k happened? How did I end up like this?’.

FOCUS ON THE NOW.

Everything else is all in your head

Oli.

(Sorry that this is two days late.)