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Being an introvert is one of the better attributes that I have in regards to self-improvement.

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But it wasn't always... My relationship towards my introvertedness was not always that way.

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I used to be embarrassed that I was not really good in social situations and I used to be embarrassed

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about not going to the sporting events, not hanging out with that many people, not having that many

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friends. I used to be embarrassed about all this stuff, but once I got into self-improvement,

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I realized that it was one of my best assets because it allowed me to easily kind of cut out my

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friends and just focus on myself and kind of transition to just focusing on my success.

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And so what I ended up doing was I wanted to go to the gym, I wanted to get consistent and

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build my physique. So I tried to figure out the best time for me to go, which was before school,

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at six in the morning. And it was super easy for me to do this because I was able to fall asleep

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in time. That was one of the best advantages I had because I didn't really have a social life.

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So I was able to just get home and get to bed by seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night.

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And now it's six o'clock at night. And I've seen a lot of different people,

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my age, come and go from the gym around this time. And they were never able to be consistent.

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And that was because I had one major advantage over them, which was no social life. And that

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allowed me to have an early bedtime, which also brings me up. It also reminds me of the point

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of the fact that whenever people ask me what's on my go to bed, they're always so shocked. And

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it's because they have a social life so they could never see themselves going to bed at such an

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early time because for them, their day starts at six o'clock. And for me, my day ends at six o'clock.

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They basically stay up late, but I wake up early. And that's the power of being an introvert. And

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it's more than just being able to go to bed early. It's more than that. It's also the fact that

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you don't have to worry about other people. You can just focus on yourself. Honestly,

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it's still going on now, but for the past two years, I basically just honed in and just focused

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on myself. And I basically don't hang out with people. I haven't hung out with people in so long.

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And that gives me so much time to just focus on myself. And also one of the biggest things

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is when you hang out with people, they try to cause, they not try to, but the way hanging out

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with people tends to go is you tend to break your habits and take on bad habits while you're out.

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So let's say you go to out to eat and usually you eat healthy, but you're more likely to eat unhealthy

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when they go out or when you go out with someone else. It's because that person does not have the

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same values as you. Now, if someone does have the same values as you, then you are not likely to eat

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unhealthy, but usually people don't have friends that have the same values as you, especially if

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you're, well, actually that's not true, but let me explain first. If you're on self-improvement

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and you're in a situation like me, then you are a lone wolf. There is pretty much no one in your

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entire school who has the same values as you. Now, me, I'm lucky because I'm friends with two people

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that have similar values to me, but it wasn't always like that. I just met these two people

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within the past year. And so pretty much before last year, I was always, I thought that no one

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had the same values as me. So I was all alone. And that is so good. I'm so grateful that I'm

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an introvert because I get to just focus on myself and people don't, people actually only care about

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you focusing on yourself while you're still kind of friends with them or while you're still actively

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hanging out with them. But once you transition and you just kind of slowly but surely break off,

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then after a couple of weeks, they just forget about you and they don't care.

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Like I, once I stopped going on my phone, I stopped texting people and then as a result,

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they just stopped texting me. And now I haven't received a text from anyone else within the

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past like two months. So that is such a huge asset.