Clean your room

Hey, I'm Thilo, I consider myself a personal development guru. Which is a really stupid thing to say, I know. And I wish I could hook my brain up to a device that reads of a metric of "sorted-outness," but until that point all I can do is live by example and hope people recognize that I'm on to something.
In 2014 I was living like a slob. My diet was garbage, I was addicted to sugar, addicted to video games, procrastinated, binged Netflix, I was spiteful towards the world, resentful towards people, blamed my problems on everyone, sociall stupid, I took horrible care of myself, and had no sense of meaning or purpose, intellectually stubborn - I felt I was way too smart to listen to any advice from anyone or read some stupid mushy self help book. Also thought meditation was "new age bullshit."
This is going to sound really cheesy, but - one moment in 2014 I decided not to do any of that anymore, and over the course of one year I completely overhauled my life. By that time in 2015 I was:

  • Exercising daily
  • Eating really well
  • Free from Netflix (except Black Mirror)
  • Taking cold showers every day
  • Free from video games
  • Stress-free
  • Anxiety-free
  • Making my bed every morning
  • Flossing every day
  • Reading a book per week
  • Full of solid goals and meaning
  • Meditating daiy
  • Journaling daiy
  • Running my own business
  • Taking generally good care of myself
  • Overcoming social fears, making friends, getting involved
  • Cleaning my lobster (not really, I hadn't heard of JP at that time)
  • Optimistic, happy

Recently 2018 has rolled around and I've maintained (more or less) all of these habits, and I've added more (intermittent fasting, NoFap, social liberation exercises, and reversing small subtle things I didn't care for such as saying "um", "ya know", and looking down when I think).

This all may seem like overkill, but why? When a guitar guru or olympic figure skater is this passionate about their craft, we admire them. Yet to be this passionate about evolving as a human is somehow abhorrent to many people. Which is silly to me.

So I came across Jordan Peterson in mid 2017 and everything he says resonates with all the 115 books I'd read since hen. Except for one massive gap - he doesn't get practical enough. That's why I'm making this site.

More about me at thilosavage.com