Leaving Something for My Children

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Leaving something behind for my children. This has been on my mind in recent years. I’m not married and I don’t have children. 🙂 But I would like to have them, and when I pass away one day, I may not even be able to leave my passwords to my children.

So, after a sudden heart attack, no one will know the passwords to my accounts. Literally, they won’t have any memories of me. Because in the past, there were physical family diaries. Now everything is digital, and if they can’t unlock the phone, they won’t be able to access any memories!

That’s why the idea of keeping a physical diary makes sense to me. But I don’t have the discipline to keep a diary. Writing feels like torture to me. Ahem! Writing with a pen feels like torture to me.

On the other hand, typing is enjoyable. In fact, I’m writing three articles right now, including this one. My nights are very productive.

Still, I can’t help but wonder. When I go to the spirit world one day, what will remain of me in this world? What did I give to this world? Will my memories live on?

A few years ago, a follower of mine created a website. And that site was successful. Many people used it—over two million people. Would you believe it’s still being used? And it’s still making money. Right now, that money goes to charities because…

My follower developed a brain tumor and passed away. Everything happened so fast. And when that happened, I met his brother. At first, I thought he was joking and trying to scam me. But he wasn’t.

He left me a will. Before he died, he said, “If anything happens to me, send my website to Ugur KILCI. He’ll take care of it”i I took care of it. Finding the passwords was difficult. I remember we couldn’t even find his social media passwords.

Who did he write to? What were his dreams? We’ll never know. The digital world is beautiful, but at that moment, I realized that there needs to be something physical too.

That’s why it comes to mind from time to time. To do something I can leave to my children. Or to somehow easily make the digital physical. I’m not sure. Maybe they’re empty thoughts. But I still think about it. I’ll keep thinking about it.

How many T-shirts do you have?

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How many shirts and how many T-shirts do you have in your closet? Let’s think on a larger scale.

Do you think shirts or T-shirts sell more worldwide? According to 2023 data, a total of 2.3 billion shirts were sold. But T-shirts sold 8.1 billion units.

Well, why? Let me tell you:

The more productive something becomes, the more it is consumed.

Source:

  • https://www.marketreportsworld.com/market-reports/shirt-market-14716310

Focus on the things you know

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Focus on what you know. People cannot know what you know or where you are going, that is, your future. They compare yours either to themselves or to others. Don’t get caught up in that.

Unusualness happens outside the usual.

– Ugur KILCI

If you constantly move forward with things you don’t know, you continually start from scratch. On the other hand, if you move forward with things you know, then you build on that and move up.

Let’s say you are at level 5 with your PHP knowledge. NextJS is new to you. Then your level becomes 0 instead of 5. You spend time, energy, money, and health to get back to level 5.

On the other hand, if you had done the same thing with your PHP knowledge, in the big picture, someone would be at level 10 in one corner and level 5 in the other. If you suddenly enter the real estate field, you won’t start at level 11; you’ll start from scratch again. If you then enter the dropshipping field, you’ll start from scratch again. You don’t build on top of it.

When someone in the PHP field, or whatever field it is, reaches level 100, you’ll still be at level 5. And you’ll envy them and go back to PHP.

No!

Focus on what you know! Now you know what you know. Things you don’t know will take your time, energy, money, and health!