Plan ahead, skip shortcuts, own your outcomes

🌱 HEALTHY

You Can Eat Well While Traveling

Most nomads I meet complain about eating like shit on the road.

Too expensive to eat out every meal. No time to cook. Limited options. Hotel breakfast buffets with stale pastries and mystery eggs (IYKYK).

But it's not actually that complicated.

You just need to stop treating food as an afterthought and start planning it the same way you plan your flights, accommodation, and work schedule.

When I book a place, basic cooking facilities are non-negotiable. Even if it's just a hot plate and a fridge, that's enough. If I'm staying at a hotel, I make sure breakfast is included and check reviews to confirm the food isn't garbage.

This alone solves most of the problem.

With even minimal cooking access, you can cover at least one solid meal per day. I keep it simple - eggs, wraps, fruit, cold cuts, a mix of veggies. None of this requires advanced cooking skills or exotic ingredients. Just versatile staples that work for multiple meals.

The planning part matters more when you're only somewhere for a short while. You should know before you arrive when you'll need to eat and have a rough strategy, just like you know when your flight leaves or what coworking space you're using.

If you're landing at 6pm and need to work the next morning, do you have breakfast sorted? Is there a grocery store within walking distance, or do you need to stop on the way from the airport?

These aren't complicated questions, but most people don't ask them until they're already hungry and stuck with whatever mediocre options are nearby.

The difference between eating well and eating poorly on the road isn't willpower or discipline. It's whether you planned ahead or left it to chance.

Takeaway: Before your next trip, add food logistics to your planning checklist. Where will you shop? When will you cook? What one meal can you control each day? Treat it like any other part of your itinerary and watch how much easier it gets.

🪙 WEALTHY

Do The Work Yourself First

AI can write your content now. Templates can build your website. Tools can automate your outreach. Contractors can handle your customer service.

And yeah, all of that has its place eventually.

But if you skip straight to delegation and automation without ever doing the work yourself, you're missing the entire point.

You don't learn the skill. You don't understand what works and what doesn't. You can't spot when something's off because you never developed the instinct for it in the first place.

Everyone's looking for shortcuts right now. Click a button, generate content, outsource the hard stuff, scale fast.

Which is exactly why actually doing the work yourself makes you stand out. It’s not about making life harder for yourself for the sake of it.

When you've written a hundred sales emails by hand, you know what converts. When you've handled customer complaints yourself, you understand what actually matters to people. When you've built something from scratch, you can spot quality instantly.

The lessons don't come from the output. They come from the struggle of figuring it out.

Eventually you will automate and delegate. That's how you scale. But when you do it after you've mastered the fundamentals, you know exactly what to look for. You can train people properly. You can tell when the output you get is garbage.

Shortcuts feel efficient. But efficiency without competence gets you nowhere faster.

Takeaway: Starting something new? Don't wait until you're an expert, and don't look for shortcuts on day one. Start now and do the work yourself as you're building. Learn by doing it badly at first. The automation and delegation comes later, once you actually understand what you're doing.

📚 AND WISE

What Did You Expect?

When something goes left, ask yourself this question: "What did I expect?"

Not as self-punishment. As a reality check.

If you're not where you want to be right now, look at the decisions you've been making. The habits you've been keeping. The people you've been spending time with. The things you've been consuming.

Is where you ended up really a surprise? Or is it exactly where those choices were always going to take you?

Most of us know what's not serving us. We just don't want to admit it yet.

Staying up scrolling until 2am isn't helping you build anything. Hanging out with people who complain about everything isn't making you better. Avoiding hard conversations isn't making problems disappear.

So here's the question: if you're not where you want to be, what actually needs to change?

What can you drop that isn't serving you anymore? What old version of yourself needs to die so a better one can take its place?

And what one positive decision can you start making today that moves you closer to who you're trying to become?

You don't need permission to change. You just need to stop pretending the current path is going to get you somewhere different.

Takeaway: Answer those three questions this week. What needs to change? What needs to go? What positive decision starts today? Write them down. Then act on one immediately.