Ask HN: What are some of your recent successes?

Cut out drinking, weed, meat, sugar, processed foods.

Wake up every day around 5am and dive into deep work.

Got rid of my iPhone and replaced it with a flip phone.

Deactivated Facebook, barely check Instagram anymore.

Dropped about 25 pounds without working out much, feel great.

Eliminated anyone who is parasitic towards me, saved a lot of energy and time.

Scaled my agency/consultancy without any marketing, just referrals and word-of-mouth.

Collected a TB of nature/wildlife photos from my travels, written a lot of posts for a blog I am launching soon that covers a range of topics from minimalism, plant-based lifestyle, deep work, web development, UX design, creative service, entheogens, dhyana.

Mapped out an UX and schema for a platform that I will submit to YC. If rejected, try crowdfunding.

Consolidated my life goals and bucket list down a lot after realizing a lot of things lately.

I have never felt more whole, grounded, centered, focused, organized, stable before. :)

Congratulations! What was your framework for prioritizing which changes to tacke first, and implementing these changes?

Work: I just completed a big project, moving platform and host for one of our e-commerce stores, without messing up. I consider this a major win because I had to do everything on my own, from re-building the old system on the new framework to converting all the data.

Self: I just completed my third year of walking 7 miles every day. I feel strong, sleep well and I'm way more productive both at home and at work.

I feel a lot more clear minded, which makes deep work easier. I feel more in tune with my intuition, with drives my creativity. I don't waste time with people who have to drink/smoke to have fun. I make more time for my niece and nephew and my parents, I am a lot more patient with them.

I'm only 29 so this is all revolutionary for me, feels like I am hitting my full stride as I go into my 30's.

Thanks!

Honestly, I just realized that life is short and most people go to their death beds without realizing their full potential because they are occupied with social concerns. Many people drop the quality of their life by living an unhealthy lifestyle that is disconnected from nature.

This all really set in for me after my grandmother, who I was very close to, passed away in December after having a stroke in November. I helped take care of her because she took care of me when I was a boy. Also, my 43-year-old cousin passed away from ovarian cancer in July. Got news of a kid I met only once being murdered during a robbery, he was only 24.

These realizations are put into practice with each breath, thought, word, and deed with the Eightfold Path that Buddha laid out 2,500 years ago. It's as relevant today as it was back then.