What Bold Decisions Are You Making?

It's day 17 of documenting 2025

And I'm making decisions that can make or break this year for me.

Although I'm diving back into poetry and creative writing, I won't ignore marketing and copywriting.

The knowledge will serve me and I will keep building on it.

Last night, I headed to YouTube after realizing that I may have forgotten my poetic roots.

Like I've lost touch with it.

I started with 1 TED talk video.... where the speaker convinced me that I have everything I need to write poetry.

After that, I watched another one.

Then one more.

The last one made me rethink about what I needed social media for.

I decided to deactivate my Instagram account which logged me out of Threads automatically.

I also deleted my Telegram account.

Without thinking twice.

This was earlier this morning...around 1am or so.

The only social apps left on my phone now are Facebook, Whatsapp and Substack.

Don't know if Substack counts as a social app tho.... 🤔

But this time, I won't look back.

You may ask, Why?

Why are you doing all this?

Why are you going back to something that you might have lost touch with?

My answer?

I want to figure it out 😌

My thinking path goes like this:

All I need is one social media, one blog and one email list.

My Facebook page, this blog and my Substack newsletter.

See what I mean?

I'm also building as well.

Building relationships and networks that will serve me later.

That's all about my life and how it's going.

Time for my notes ✍️

I usually take down notes on the book I'm reading and share them here with my thoughts on them as well.

I'm currently reading the book, Awaken The Giant Within by Anthony Robbins.

And so far, I can say it has influenced me in some ways....

I'm on the fourth chapter that focuses on pain and pleasure, twin forces that shape our lives.

The section I read last night started with this particular quote from Marcus Aurelius.

"If you're distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

A note I took down 👇 

Events don't matter to us.

Rather, how we interpret those events will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.

I quote (from the book):

"Through the power of our wills, we can weigh something like physical pain of starvation against the psychic pain of surrendering our ideals"

What I think about the excerpt above: ✍️

By comparing how an action can bring us pain or pleasure, we can make better decisions.

Sometimes an activity can bring us short term pain but long term pleasure and vice versa.

And it's up to us to decide which of them to pick.

Another note I took down 👇 

Our behavior, both conscious and unconscious, has been rigged by pain and pleasure.

And we may or may not know precisely when programming and conditioning occurred.

It may be from our younger years, school, family, outstanding incidents, social media.

All of this makes us who we are and influences how we make decisions.

Really thought this note 👆 out as I paraphrased.

And I didn't finish the chapter.

But it's alright.

I'm trying to understand every section,

Every paragraph,

Every sentence.

That's all for today's post.

I'm going to conclude with some elements of my offer and list it on an affiliate platform.

And I'll be virtually meeting up with another keen writer I recently met.

Let's see how today goes.

Thanks for reading to the end, Ami.

(Who's Ami? 🤨.....you are!)

I'm Duon Ada and I'm documenting 2025.