Khawaja Affan

Hard Pill To Swallow: Growth is lonely because you’ve outgrown the room you’re in, but you haven’t built the one you’re aiming for. Don't trade your future just to cure your current loneliness; solitude is simply the price of admission to your next level.

Use your money to - Look better (invest in yourself) - Make more money (put it back into things that grow) - Feel better (remove money stress and stop worrying) Use your time to - Look better (stay calm and relaxed) - Make more money (take big chances without fear) - Feel better (practice believing that nothing is ever truly lost) Spend your time and money to build a mindset where you truly believe there is always something better waiting for you.

Don't think my posts just fall out of the sky

The point of eating healthy is so that you can have a pizza slice now and again. The point of fixing your relationships is so that you can disappear if you feel like it sometimes. The point of working hard is so you can take a vacation once in a while. Choosing a better life doesn’t mean you never get to have any fun. You can have fun whenever you want without losing much progress. Plus, it feels 100X better when you deserve it.

You cannot lift everyday at the gym and track every calorie you consume. You cannot sleep the optimal hours according to your biology everyday. You cannot spend time with all your loved ones everyday even if they want you to. You cannot outperform your best work everyday. But that’s how it is supposed to be. The point of beneficial habits is even if you fail at them sometimes, it’s all good.

The most resentful people I have ever met are those who lived every aspect of their life in accordance to others. They listened to everyone but themselves and now they hate anyone for trying to do the opposite. The man who loved painting but became an accountant never visits the art gallery out of sheer spite. The woman who loved travelling but became a permanent stay-at-home mom now has 10 reasons on why no woman should ever travel. Resentment becomes a part of your identity if you repeat anything enough times. Your brain does its best to make sense of everything. And it becomes a permanent part of you. I’m begging you to stop chasing money, instead pursue becoming who you wanted to be. The internet has opened up the opportunity for anyone to make a living out of their interest. Why do you still think you cannot do the same?

Hard Pill To Swallow: Your lies to yourself are the biggest reason for your self-hatred.

A writer who edits every sentence before finishing their first draft is like a chess player moving in his queen for checkmate in the first 4 moves. Slow down. No one is watching. Go wild in your first draft.

If you just start asking how much you will regret something before doing it. You are more likely to quit chasing those cheap hits of dopamine.

People who say they don't care about anyone's opinions spend their life controlled by them. They think saying something is the same as embodying it. But when they become the subject of a conversation, a few negative remarks are enough to break them. Lying to yourself is the worst form of self harm.

Do you consider every object in the universe - animate or inanimate - to have feelings?

Metacognition will teach you more about yourself than self-help books ever will.

Nobody: "I want to waste my life being exactly what everyone wants me to be and pleasing people who I wouldn't even take advice from." Yet, the majority still does this. Wake up before it's too late.

Society realising it failed to condition me into a corporate NPC slave