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Rewire What Success Means

Objectives

Value Time Over Hustle

Value time, rest, and reflection over hustle and grind.

Prioritize What Matters

Align your actions with your values, not external measures of success.

Celebrate Progress, Not Perfection

Celebrate progress, not perfection. Small changes matter.

Redefine Progress

Redefine growth by impact and meaning, not just income.

What You Can Do

Practice time sovereignty

Try time-tracking tools like Toggl or Clockify to see where your hours go. Deliberately block off time for rest, reflection, and relationships.

Adopt mindful scheduling

Use approaches like Deep Work (Cal Newport) or the Pomodoro Technique to prioritize focus and avoid grind culture’s constant multitasking.

Define values, not metrics

Work through free exercises like the Life Values Inventory or Ikigai framework to align daily actions with what truly matters.

Set “enough” goals

Explore books like Your Money or Your Life or practices like FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) to define what “enough” means for you.

Celebrate micro-progress

Use tools like Habitica or Streaks to track small wins and rewire your brain toward celebrating progress instead of perfection.

Unsubscribe from hustle media

Curate your feeds: unfollow hustle influencers and replace them with communities like Slow Living Movement or The Nap Ministry.

Measure impact differently

Shift evaluation from income/achievements to meaning: journal about relationships, creativity, or contribution rather than productivity.

Join supportive communities

Connect with groups promoting balance and anti-hustle culture, such as Slow Living forums, No More Zero Days, or local mindfulness circles.

Helpful Tools

Clockify
clockify.me

Daylio
daylio.net

Deep Work by Cal Newport
calnewport.com

Focus To-Do
focustodo.cn

Habitica
habitica.com

Headspace
headspace.com

Ikigai Framework
ikigaitribe.com

Life Values Inventory
lifevaluesinventory.org

Practical Psychology
youtube.com

r/FinancialIndependence
reddit.com

r/NoMoreZeroDays
reddit.com

Slow Living Lifestyle
slowlivinglifestyle.com

Streaks
streaksapp.com

The Nap Ministry
thenapministry.com

Toggl Track
toggl.com

Your Money or Your Life
yourmoneyoryourlife.com