One Day At A Time
You can have more fun if you’re successful. You can travel and be crazier if you got a winning attitude. You can do more “dark” and “hardcore” makeup looks if you had more cash on hand. You can be labeled “edgy” AND have a fatass bank account. But it’s not going to happen putting in the least on the daily. You need to do more.
If no one has told you, then yeah, I get why it might make you sad. If your parents were negative or not present to help you figure out who you are since you were born, yeah I get why you don’t have self-esteem. If you slept around with whoever you chose because you were “lonely” or “didn’t know any better”, then yes, it makes sense as to why you value your own abilities and life so low – SO I WILL TELL YOU: You can do better than this. You SHOULD do better than this. You MUST do better than this. If me, a random person online, is pissing you off by telling you to win, but you LOVE engaging with people who complain all day? That’s the sign. THAT is the SIGN that you have lost control of yourself and are finding people to lose control with in a negative sense and leave a path of destruction. And in my opinion, it started the day you turned 18 and had free will in the United States of America. Any other country, whatever age they lawfully state is an adult, you became responsible for every failure or success in your life.
It’s so dumb and prideful to the present day, with the internet in our hands, people still do not believe that being a failure in their own goals will not affect them in the future. We have MILLIONS of people TODAY stating that they messed up for over ten years straight. They have themselves on VIDEO saying things like, “I’m pretty so why should I care about my body? I’ll be young and skinny forever.” So they eat themselves to over 300lbs in their 20s and then now in their 30s saying it was a mistake. But the way they are saying it is as if they never knew. As if they just woke up at 38 and went from being 110lbs to 357lbs overnight. Zero ownership of their daily failures. Or worse yet, find excuses and give up completely because the most they can do is the motion of lifting food from the plate to their face. OF COURSE doing more than lifting an arm is ALWAYS going to feel like effort if that’s ALL you’ve ever done, DUH. Then its worse if they layer on children and now transforms to, “When you become a parent, it’s impossible to stop overeating. I just eat, and eat, and eat.” What the hell. That’s not in basic biology books that once a human has a child, they now become morbidly obese. Or in reverse, severely underweight. Or psychologically, now they have an anger problem and have to get in bar fights every weekend because it’s “stressful” raising a child. Children are supposed to motivate the hell out of you to become your best. End of the story.
Since the beginning of civilization, we also have dudes who say, “Nah man, why get a job? I’ll just sleep around and around, and that will make me a man.” Then waste their 20s building a body count thinking it means something instead of building a career or a fat bank account from good honest work. Ya’ll can do whatever you want, but don’t sacrifice your life. DEFINITELY don’t sacrifice your accumulated net worth. It is understandable if your net worth is $0 at 18. It’s a failure if your accumulated net worth after the age of 30 to be the $400 in your bank account and a 2008 Nissan Altima with problems in your front yard. Let me go further. It is a failure if you’re ENTIRE net worth at age 50 is only $5,000 (no properties, no assets, no CD’s in the bank, nothing else contributing). Be honest. You’re telling me, along with statistical data based on global and national opportunities, that ALL you could make from the age of 18 to 50 years old was only $5,000? That’s a lie. I know you made choices, decisions, life-altering mistakes. Own up to them and change for the better. You cannot tell me that making $156.25 per year from 18 to 50 years of age is ALL YOU COULD DO?? Liar.
Make your ATTITUDE a PIECE of your productive composition instead of a 10, 20, 30, or 40+ year streak of why you were f-cking up for so long. None of this bullshit, “but I wanna have fun!”. Yo, you can have more fun if you win. You can have more fun if you have money you earned. You can have more fun if you have a relationship built on being positive even if your style is emo or goth, preppy or bright. Be honest right now. Your little whiny excuses as to having fun, put up against the version of you winning? You winning will ALWAYS have more than the version of you losing. Don’t believe whoever is telling you that you are perfect the way you are in exchange for you to like them. Start believing the people that like you because they see all the wonderful positive things you can achieve and give you a reason to keep doing it.
I will admit this- I did have a father and mother who pushed academics more than anything. One of many things they pushed was to have a Bachelor’s Degree at the LEAST in life, and AS SOON AS POSSIBLE in life. THEN do whatever the hell I wanted in the sense of ANYTHING. As of this blog, I have NOT used my Bachelor’s Degree in any sense. I earned that degree in 2015. It’s been 11 years and not once have I used it. There has been no business deal, no perk, no income that was directly related to that degree. But that degree did help me in the sense that even if I messed up my entire life, I can still use my degree to get a job somewhere. Even if I messed up my life to where professional careers would deny me, and since I am not a criminal in any country, I could always be the better pick for a job such as a cashier at any place with a Bachelor’s Degree. The reason I state this is because it is NOW HAPPENING. There are people wondering why they aren’t getting hired at entry level positions. Well, it’s because more people are educated now and possibly choosing an easy job after decades of career work. Therefore, businesses will hire someone more educated and happy compared to someone that is not educated at all with a complaining attitude who bitches on their shifts. Even if it is for basic skills and job requirements. This is simply the truth. And I speak the truth. I face it, don’t hide from it, and share it- unlike those that would rather point fingers and argue why it’s unfair. That will change nothing. Humanity as a whole will move forward with or without complaints. So complaining is a waste. It’s also a financial waste in the workplace if you’re complaining instead of doing the job you signed a contract to do. Especially if you have opportunities in the workplace to build skills, get even more educated, and outpace technology so you become irreplaceable somehwere in the work field.
Let me put it in kid language: When I was in 5th grade, there were students who complained they couldn’t do their homework because they wanted to play outside all day, every day (the current times is more of being on the tablet or TIKTOK on a phone all day watching brainrot content). The homework was 11 problems of simple math. Here, let me give you AN ACTUAL homework sheet from my 5th grade mathematics class:
2×0=_______
2×1=_______
2×2=_______
2×3=_______
2×4=_______
2×5=_______
2×6=_______
2×7=_______
2×8=_______
2×9=_______
2×10=_______
We were given a whole week for this. An ENTIRE WEEK. Even if I took my time, and did one problem PER DAY – I would at least get a score of 60. If I did ONE MORE PROBLEM the day I turned it in, I would get a 70, the passing minimum in Texas. THERE WERE PEERS WHO DIDN’T DO EVEN ONE. Then came the complainers that would use me to compare why they couldn’t do EVEN ONE: It was because Peter is a “mathematical genius”. Which, by the way, was not completely false; I did indeed compete mathematically, did UIL math-related events, and would win championships. I even got perfect scores on the state given exams. It is not an unknown to my hometown that I was a “smart”, I get it, big whoop. But to say, “But Peter is smart, I can’t do ten problems in a week, it’s too hard!! I’m not him! I wanna play outside, and that’s why I couldn’t finish my homework!” And it would be worse if they actually did start crying. Tears, actual tears. As a 5th grader, that is when I started to ask out loud, “What the hell?”
By the way, the entire middle and high school education system in Texas is throttled. Every single week, I was personally frustrated, especially in math, as to why we wouldn’t move forward with the curriculum. I was point blank told, since 6th grade, by multiple instructors, “The reason we can’t move on, Peter, is that the average speed of everyone’s learning capacity is much lower than the few students who are capable of moving at the REGULAR pace of the rest of the students in the state of Texas.”
Texas is also much slower as a state, compared to states that have a higher reading level. 130 Million adults, or 54% of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 read below the equivalent of sixth-grade level. This is fact. According to an 18-metric score basis, Texas in 2026 is placed 40th out of all the states in academic level and higher educational attainment. According to USNews, Texas is #34. On either scale, Texas is considered stupid and dumb and slow. But to the state itself, that’s called normal. So the ones below the normal, and considered dumber, more stupid, and slower. Which sucks because we rock. We DO have smart people. We DO have winners. But the average person complains too much, does too little, wastes too much time, would rather “have fun” than do the little needed to keep up to speed nationally and waits until “LATER” to get their life going. Now imagine being a high-level performer in this state? Since the 3rd grade, I can actually describe multiple situations where an entire classroom would get upset at me for raising my hand and asking to do more because it was too easy, and I was threatened and dealt being ostracized for it. It didn’t make sense. If we all collectively chose to simply stop making the simple complicated, it would be a breeze. Just like being in physical shape- once you are in shape, it’s easy to maintain it. The same goes with mental and academic skills. If you stay at a slow pace, ANYTHING will always be slow and difficult to turn better.
It was also massively detrimental in high school, the groups of complainers that would slow entire months of teaching to be considered cool by someone they were attracted to. Yup. Entire groups of people choosing to pretend to be dumb, to be liked by someone that was dumb or dumber. All so they can now, decades later, no longer be pretending, and are complaining that they are a victim to anything they try and fail at because it requires actual work instead of simply getting attention or be liked.
There’s also a correlation amongst those populations with other categories: being overweight or underweight, having skills that are valuable in the marketplace, having parental skills, the ability to be disciplined and achieve higher level goals (such as deciding to earn a college degree or skill-based certificates to earn $45,000+ annual income careers). Personally, I was so done with limits and being lumped into a group, that I chose to go independent and do physical good sales on my own. I only wanted to deal with other people who wanted or even needed me to produce more goods. More sales. More skills. People that work with me are either near my level of extreme business, or at my level, or above. I do not work with people where there are financial decisions being made and there is a significant gap in skills, assets, products, projects, etc. It wouldn’t make sense.
When I was younger and gated by the educational system, I wished I could go faster. It also helped that every year since 6th grade, the teachers who explained why we had to go so slow explained that when I became an adult, I could go as fast as I want in life. As far as I could imagine. I could work and learn as much as I would like- and that I SHOULD. Nowadays, I share that outlook amongst the entire world. As an adult, like you are, I can choose the unlimited speed at which I prefer in any endeavor. This is where I try to get as many people to wake up and live in. But at some point, if it is talking to a brick wall, I must give up on them and move on. Or if it’s a paid client, who thinks by paying me I will kiss their ass and tell them they are right in going as slow as they would like, I refund their money and send them away from me.
As much as I am a personal and professional development coach, I will not sacrifice my own life to waste away so someone can CHOOSE when to move onward in life. You’re either ready or you’re not. It’s not complicated to me, especially since I was in in elementary school seeing kids cry about why they can’t do 11 math problems in one week. They’re the same adults crying as to why they can’t pay their $1,300 rent split between two people- but yet are microdosing on acid every single day “seeing the answers of the universe”. Yeah, sure, whatever you say little buddy.
The self-imposed array of beliefs I gave myself on the day I turned 18 years old also helped tremendously. One of the many statements I never wanted to speak was, “One day at a time, and eventually, I will get there.” That statement is so lazy. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You only say that when you want to take forever and SOMEHOW you achieve the goal. That isn’t my style. I also think “One day at a time, and eventually, I will get there” is a pathetic sentence. If anyone says that to me about a goal of any kind, I interrupt and ask, “What do you have against doing more than the minimum?” I need to know if you’re going to take it “one day at a time”, then the day better be filled from the second you wake up, until you pass out trying your best. And guess what? I have yet to find someone who does both: take it one day at a time AND also hauls ass trying to do more than what most people do in one day. Because that sentence is inherently lazy. That sentence means that TIME itself will do the work for you. TIME does not do work. TIME simply passes. People that do the most they can every day EXPECT results every day. They don’t expect results to fall on their lap just because time passed.
“One day at a time, and eventually, I will get there.” That’s bullshit. To those that say this sentence, answer these questions: When was the last significant thing you accomplished that was achieved faster than the version of you in your teenage years? Have you accomplished anything at a better pace than a motivated 16 year old high school student working in your city? Taking it “one day at a time” when you have problems from YEARS ago is only making you suffer. Face it already. You taking forever is making you forever live in a mini version of hell while you’re still alive. And it’s a choice. Don’t come at me with hours of excuses and zero hours of effort to fix the problem. If you can complain for days, but have zero days of proof that you tried- you got a running mouth and have someone taking care of your problems to a certain degree, and you are giving them free reign of some part of you whether it is physical, mental, spiritual, or financial. ESPECIALLY if they LOVE complaining with you about problems and THAT is what keeps them around. ESPECIALLY if that’s how they stay your “friend”- or worse, your lover(s). Really ask yourself, if you are indeed in this position, why aren’t you around people that are waiting for you to light a fire under your ass to give a flying F— about yourself and catch up to where you are supposed to be by now.
In other words, if me, a random person online, is pissing you off by telling you to win- so you’re more likely to argue with me, only to see that I won’t argue with a negative mindset, so you block me, but will continue engaging with people who complain all day. That’s the sign. THAT is the SIGN that you have lost control of yourself and are finding people to lose control with in a negative sense and leave a path of destruction.
This whole bullshit of taking 5-20 years for some basic ass skills in life is the laziest mentality and the most self-disrespectful lifestyle you can have. Especially if you scroll on social media all day, build your skills on a video game character and not your actual skills, complain about any country and why they are a problem that’s preventing you from getting up and doing things you are responsible for and can actually work on. With technology being right in your hand, with videos on multiple websites on how to do ANYTHING, you seriously want to “take it one day at a time”? Without any real urgency? Without any actual actions? You want the actual sentence, “I’ll work on it one day at a time” to BE the WORK for that day? That’s what will lead you down 10 to 80 years down the road still doing the same shit that barely got you by: a negative return on investment. That’s actually slower than the slowest you can be. That’s doing less than the least you can do. That’s being under the bare minimum you should be tolerating. And then you want to be the victim? You are defending a lesser version of yourself? Creating that personality and life so you can inevitably “fall in love” with someone who gets you lower, slower, and dumber? If that’s the case, then I know you didn’t even get to this section of the blog. If you did, you don’t understand it because the reading level is above sixth grade. But if you DO understand all this, and you KNOW all this- then the sentence “I’ll take it one day at a time,” is a slow ass lie to believe in. If you understand the positivity of the message, the push to greatness within yourself, you know that “one day at a time” is not a good choice for you. You can FEEL the days, weeks, months, even years waste away when you decided to do less than your best.
There are people that I knew since the age of 18, chose to learn something “One day at a time” without any pressure or respect to themselves. Today, they are still on that first day. Some died before reaching “day two”. What a sad outcome. Maybe they’re on their 100th day. That’s still pathetic and slower than a snail. 10 years is 3,650 days. So being on day 100? Nah, that’s a failure. Accept it so moving on is doable. You will be surprised how fast you can go once you stop being lazy and slow to act. By the way, arguing against this philosophy is vouching for failure that maybe you are comfortable with, but it brings consequences to others if they stay as slow as what you are fine with.
An example would be if one pair of parents decide to work and have funds to get their children clothes, food, and adequate resources to be raised from birth to the age of 18. Then there is another couple who are lazy, do not like work, and would rather ignore their children so they put little to effort in being parents (nowadays this is called an app like TikTok to teach and talk to children instead of themselves). The two pairs of parents meet, then the lower effort couple FORCE the working couple to stop going to work, FORCE them to not give their children resources, and FORCE them to not be the best parents they can be. It is clear that there is FORCE being used to make others suffer. In this case, the ones who suffer the most are the children.
One rotten apple can absolutely cause the rest to rot. In my future EP Release, I have a song called “Decayed”. Without giving too much away, it was about an old relationship I was in where my ex-gf was ALREADY “decayed”. Meaning she had ALREADY rotted. ALREADY decomposed. Even BEFORE I had met her. So what if she was living in the literal sense? On the inside, she was dead, ruined, had bad health habits, zero work ethic, hung around with people that called her perfect and to never do better than flipping burgers because her prettiness granted her freedom to be a “happy loser”. If you know the type, you know that the entire friend group calls themselves “losers”. Except, unlike the friend groups that are mature and understand they are joking, this group legitimately NEEDED to lose to feel good. No money? They felt great. No job? They were happy to have more time to get high. No responsibility or respect to their body? They were happy to stuff their face with bread weeks after they they lied at a local pantry that they were homeless and it was now moldy (they thought it was delicious because they were as high as Jupiter anytime they ate). When in the truth, the girls in the group had been getting their cars and rent paid by their fathers. You know, spoiled ass brats with loser ass bum dudes who had no drive to do anything other than find other like-minded individuals to poison and bring down to the bottom of the state-of-living barrel.
This was in the stages before I was doing business sales. By the way, I have no problem admitting I was “normal” in income at that time. There was always NO excitement when I had good ideas. NO respect to staying home and doing trainings for future plans. Early on, it is not easy to see these things when you are “normal”. Especially when the person who is not excited for you is drop dead gorgeous in your personal opinion of beauty. But on the inside, I knew it was going against my REAL intentions to be a winner in life, business, health, and ethics. Very quickly, I had earned a massive streak of sales and took this girl on a vacation. She was BORED. It was a vacation more extravagant that she had ever gone on. More than any of her previous bum boyfriends ever did for her. I had even put more money into her living space and clothes than her parents did all her teenage years (yes, I am talking about a girl who was basically abandoned by her parents and when asked where is your daughter, their response was “I don’t know” and kept watching TV, annoyed that you asked). She even asked and detailed some higher end experiences for vacations after that one. I achieved them. I am a simple man- if the girl I’m with asks for something, I can achieve it. I have a CAN DO attitude. I LOVE providing or even giving luxuries to the woman I am with. It feels great and I do ethical business, so hell yeah! But still, she did not celebrate, she was annoyed that I actually hit the goal post, and eventually admitted that she would rather be on a couch rotting away watching mindless TV shows and never understand finances, the value of winning, and worst: kept hanging out with people she grew up with whom were already getting addicted to drugs and heavy substances in their teenage years.
Even though she herself had not shared those drug habits (according to her), her “friends” were already permanently damaged and had completely fried their brains. Some of the friends in the group had what I call “Goddess Genetics”. The type of genetics where you can be trashing your body, but at a glance, you cannot tell. Only blood work and brain scans can reveal the poised organs or literal holes in the brain due to drug use. What did reveal their true rot was their views. They saw no value in anything other than getting high and supporting each others failures, blaming the government, and painting anyone who wins in anything “an absolute evil”. Anytime I won in anything, there they were: drug addicted rats calling with claims that if I did not give my money to them, I was just another “authoritarian rich capitalist male that made the poor suffer”. I mean, they spoke and used vocabulary like they actually took a government class in college (as long as they were not high because once they were, they only spoke gibberish and asked if the local pizza shop was still open). Over a decade later to the current present, they are all still losers and f-ck ups in life: they have only brought rot, devastation, financial problems for others, have stolen for personal gain, emotionally got close to good people, then use their kindness to get a free place to stay for a few weeks before getting kicked out, and ruined themselves as well as their credit score, trust in banks, even the ability to be hired has been put on their permanent record as a risk because they kept destroying everything around them by their deranged attitude and actions and financial thievery. They had already been dead on the inside even before they graduated high school. But they were not dealt consequences. They were decayed in their 20s, and somehow made others pay for their consequences. Some are in their 30s and 40s, and still have no “consequences” because they do not see consequences. They are gone mentally. They are dead on the inside. And they like it. They are comfortable being nothing. And they had made the girl I thought was beautiful and ready to launch in life dead before she met me.
It was only crystal clear once I won on my own independent ventures and was reaching new levels of physical and mental health that her actions screamed she hated me being my best. I know this is a lot intrapersonal information, but without speaking from one’s experience, I am withholding truths that can help someone avoid this. I legitimately had multi-million dollar companies with the sole mission to help people be healthy and the best they can be working with me, and even then had trouble seeing clearly who this girl was on the inside. I will always share my life so others can avoid the people that “took it one day at a time”. In the slowness- the ones who have nothing to offer do not seem like rotten people, so they keep growing their bad apple circle by those who have not done enough in life to see clearly the threat in front of them. It happens every day. I am pretty sure you know someone that eventually admits they ruined their life from choosing to go so slow, or do so little, that the worst people in life don’t seem like “bad people”, so the invite to do things together seems like “friends hanging out”. Then years later, no one has a job, no one has health, no one has a mind, no one has clear thoughts, and no one has value. Depending on the state of the individual, they may become suicidal or have a crisis. If this sounds like you or someone you care about, there is always resources to help change the course if you decide to be involved in the healing process. But you must also know that you cannot sacrifice your entire life’s purpose for strangers. For people you actually do not know anymore. For someone who chose to make decision after decision without your consideration to mess their life up and laugh about it. You must leave those people and should not be the one to pay the price of time, life, or money- they should. But how is this connected to the phrase “one day at a time”? Those who take it easy can be swindled by those looking to take advantage of you. In the mind of someone with irrational behaviors, when they meet someone who doesn’t mind taking time off, that time is better spent making wrong choices. In their mind: if you have a day to spare, why not just f-ck that day up?
With the growing popularity of farting in a jar and actually making money (you can google this, it actually has happened before and has gotten people significant money), it is too easy to convince people who have never exercised their freedom for the best they can be, to instead do the least and expect wealth and riches or popularity, which if given a platform like social media, there is indeed a chance to gain income. Except this chance is about as likely as winning the lottery because however many people have tried to get rich with social media, it is less than 1% to make even a living wage, which on the lower end is $15,000 per year. For comparison, being a cashier average pay is $10 to 13 per hour, less in smaller populated communities, and still earn more than 99% of social media “influencers”. And yes, that INCLUDES some people who are absolutely viral. Virality does not equal solid income and there are plenty of people who continually feel duped by social media when they receive only a few bucks for millions of “views” or “likes”. I’m not attacking social media as a form of income, I am attacking the existence of social media to be used as an excuse to not do anything else meaningful in life as a human being.
People are not supposed to be told how slow to go for any reason. They are supposed to decide for themselves after doing inner personal and professional work with reflection. They are supposed to decide with positive conversations with others, if needed. Anyone that has freedom also has the power to use that freedom for the speed and magnitude of success they would enjoy achieving. If someone KNOWS they can go further and become better, but then is told to SLOW DOWN because someone else doesn’t want to be at that level- that’s called being jealous and forcing others to conform to another’s lack of effort, self discipline, confidence, or excuses.
It is not impossible to learn to cook for yourself. One day at a time isn’t going to help if one day you make cereal, and call that a meal, then for a month you’re too tired from work to cook at all so you never cook. You can’t jog for half a mile one day, then take a month off, then do another half mile and call that “one day at a time”. Painting a mug with a flower, taking all day to paint that flower, then selling one mug at $15 per month, calling that “one day at a time”, then not getting a job, and complaining about not paying rent and calling the landlord an evil human being for not giving you free housing is NOT the way to win. I’ll repeat it one last time: This whole bullshit of taking 5-20 years for some basic ass skills in life is the laziest mentality and the most self-disrespectful lifestyle you can have.
As for those that do the most every single day- keep doing it and I’ll see you at the top.
Peter Hanz
Director