I've fallen in love with cliches

I took them very seriously.

Here are a few that worked really well for me:

1. “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

I wake up at 5 am almost 25 days a month. It gives me a massive edge. I can take the day head-on.

I usually get 4 hours of focused work in before hitting the gym by 12 pm.

Even if unexpected life chores demand my attention later, I’ve already finished my bare-minimum work.

If not, I just add 4 more hours and squeeze more juice out of the day.

2. “How you do anything is how you do everything.”

If I work hard in the gym, I work hard in my writing.

If I stay consistent with one habit, I stay consistent with the rest.

It’s wild how many good habits now come to me instinctively things I couldn’t have imagined doing 5 years ago.

Consistency changed my identity to the point of near unrecognizability.

3. “All great results in life come from the compounding effect.”

I read around 12 books in 2021, then 30 the next year.

Now I read 10–12 books a month. Same with saving and investing my money. Same with writing consistently. Same with pitching consistently.

Einstein was right:

“Compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world.”

4. “You’re the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Almost all my bad habits came from low-agency friends.

We’re deeply mimetic by nature. There’s even a story of a scientist who observed a baby start mimicking others just 12 hours after birth.

I swapped my old circle for digital neighbours like Naval, Ryan Holiday, Charlie Munger.

It completely rewired my brain.

5. “A closed mouth catches no flies.”

This came naturally to me. Maybe it stems from being raised in an household where self-reliance was the norm.

This mindset helped me pitch relentlessly in the early days (and I still do).

Even when it felt cringe to ask for work, I kept putting myself out there.

And that’s what kept my business alive.

6. “Stretch your legs only as far as the blanket allows.”

Growing up lower-middle class, I watched my parents live frugally.

Throughout my school life, I received late-fee notices. But since both of my parents were big on saving, we broke through those barriers to a point of a decent lifestyle. I was 18 by then.

I treat my money with deep respect and understand the consequences of not handling it carefully.

At this moment, I’ve invested close to 40% of my overall income, and lately I’ve been investing 80% of whatever I make, so that number will surely go up.

I live way beyond my means, so that in the next 5 years ( if my business keeps running the same way), my money gives me enough passive income that I don’t have to work for money anymore.

Then I’ll pick projects out of curiosity.

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That's it for the day, I rarely share my personal stuff on here (not a big believer in sob-stories but it's how I was shaped so it came out naturally)

There are not secrets in life, just good-ol-clichés.