Being an introvert is one of the better attributes that I have in regards to self-improvement.
But it wasn't always... My relationship towards my introvertedness was not always that way.
I used to be embarrassed that I was not really good in social situations and I used to be embarrassed
about not going to the sporting events, not hanging out with that many people, not having that many
friends. I used to be embarrassed about all this stuff, but once I got into self-improvement,
I realized that it was one of my best assets because it allowed me to easily kind of cut out my
friends and just focus on myself and kind of transition to just focusing on my success.
And so what I ended up doing was I wanted to go to the gym, I wanted to get consistent and
build my physique. So I tried to figure out the best time for me to go, which was before school,
at six in the morning. And it was super easy for me to do this because I was able to fall asleep
in time. That was one of the best advantages I had because I didn't really have a social life.
So I was able to just get home and get to bed by seven o'clock, eight o'clock at night.
And now it's six o'clock at night. And I've seen a lot of different people,
my age, come and go from the gym around this time. And they were never able to be consistent.
And that was because I had one major advantage over them, which was no social life. And that
allowed me to have an early bedtime, which also brings me up. It also reminds me of the point
of the fact that whenever people ask me what's on my go to bed, they're always so shocked. And
it's because they have a social life so they could never see themselves going to bed at such an
early time because for them, their day starts at six o'clock. And for me, my day ends at six o'clock.
They basically stay up late, but I wake up early. And that's the power of being an introvert. And
it's more than just being able to go to bed early. It's more than that. It's also the fact that
you don't have to worry about other people. You can just focus on yourself. Honestly,
it's still going on now, but for the past two years, I basically just honed in and just focused
on myself. And I basically don't hang out with people. I haven't hung out with people in so long.
And that gives me so much time to just focus on myself. And also one of the biggest things
is when you hang out with people, they try to cause, they not try to, but the way hanging out
with people tends to go is you tend to break your habits and take on bad habits while you're out.
So let's say you go to out to eat and usually you eat healthy, but you're more likely to eat unhealthy
when they go out or when you go out with someone else. It's because that person does not have the
same values as you. Now, if someone does have the same values as you, then you are not likely to eat
unhealthy, but usually people don't have friends that have the same values as you, especially if
you're, well, actually that's not true, but let me explain first. If you're on self-improvement
and you're in a situation like me, then you are a lone wolf. There is pretty much no one in your
entire school who has the same values as you. Now, me, I'm lucky because I'm friends with two people
that have similar values to me, but it wasn't always like that. I just met these two people
within the past year. And so pretty much before last year, I was always, I thought that no one
had the same values as me. So I was all alone. And that is so good. I'm so grateful that I'm
an introvert because I get to just focus on myself and people don't, people actually only care about
you focusing on yourself while you're still kind of friends with them or while you're still actively
hanging out with them. But once you transition and you just kind of slowly but surely break off,
then after a couple of weeks, they just forget about you and they don't care.
Like I, once I stopped going on my phone, I stopped texting people and then as a result,
they just stopped texting me. And now I haven't received a text from anyone else within the
past like two months. So that is such a huge asset.