Success Triggers by Ramit Sethi – Brutal Honesty

The first week of the Success Triggers course by Ramit Sethi is about inner psychology. The first lesson is about brutal honesty and self-awareness. There were some study questions and steps to identifying and overcoming barriers, so I will answer those questions in my post.

One thing that is important to me that I haven’t been taking action on is creating a music album or creating more song covers from scratch that I can post on Spotify, iTunes, and other services. For one, it’s important because it’s nice to share music with others so that they can enjoy, especially if I made it myself. Another reason is that I could potentially earn passive income from this. Also, it would give me a sense of accomplishment, like wow, I actually did that. I’m not sure if these are actually strong reasons though. I used to enjoying the songwriting process, but now sometimes I get stuck or have trouble making a track sound a certain way and get frustrated. Shouldn’t I enjoy the process? If not, would it be better to do something else? That’s what I wonder.

Okay, so since it’s the middle of the week, I’m going to give myself until next week on Tuesday to do three things. He says to set three things to get done, but doesn’t specify if it has to do with what is important to us. But then again, I only listed one thing. So, I’ll list a few items that relate to something important to me:

1) Proceed to the next lesson of Spanish in my Udemy course.
2) Edit a song on Logic Pro X (either a song cover or an original).
3) Cook something at least once.

Wow, that was harder to come up with than I thought. I used to have a lot of long-term goals such as writing a book or getting a certain number of subscribers on YouTube, but I stopped focusing on those goals. I only want to focus on the things I feel at least a little motivation to do.

The last time I was brutally honest with myself, I realized that things became more difficult for me and that I was more prone to stress. So, I’ve learned to be easier on myself. I’ve learned to slow down and focus on what’s important to me. I realize that there’s no straight path in life’s journey. Sometimes, you need to relax. Or, you realize that certain things don’t matter to you as much anymore. Like for example, even though of course I want to be successful, I’m not going to risk my health for it. I’m going to make sure that I have a stable mind and body first. In the past, I would have sacrificed sleep or eat less quality food. But now, I think it’s important to get enough rest, eat high quality food, keep my mind at peace, and things of that sort of healthy nature. The result of thinking this way made me focus more on self-care and taking gradual steps to create lasting habits.

I guess if I want to approach other goals the same way, I could also start off small. I won’t stress myself out by doing too much at once. The only time I’ll do more is if I feel motivated to do more or find it enjoyable. For example, I’ve been blogging every day for the past week, and that’s because I find it a little relaxing to do and it doesn’t feel too hard. It feels okay. If it ever becomes too much (like let’s say I have super busy days), I might reduce it to blogging once every two days or so, maybe even once a week. But for now, I find it kind of enjoyable and I can see myself continuing to do this.

If I could be slightly more productive than other people, I’d be earning more in passive income with music or YouTube. I spend most of my time consuming more than creating. I could easily free up 5 hours of my time per week. I have lots of free time. I just have trouble starting something when I don’t find it that enjoyable or if I feel overwhelmed. For example, with music, sometimes I enjoy the process of editing my vocals, but sometimes I stop myself by thinking that it’ll take too long to finish. I think that’s what gets me most of the time. If something seems like it’ll take too long and I might not enjoy it, I usually end up not doing it. So, I have to start off with small steps and build up from there.

Well, those are all my answers to the questions he asked. I won’t be sharing the questions as they are part of the program. If you want to know, you’ll have to sign up. But, maybe this will give you an idea of what it was about and how it could help you unravel your mindset to make it so that you can take action.

Coming up with answers to the questions took longer than I expected. I hope I don’t get overwhelmed with trying to post each day on each lesson of Success Triggers. I just thought it’d be a good idea so that I could actually finish the course. We’ll see how it goes.