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My Health, Wealth, & Happiness

5 days away from South Africa

Jake Lyda
3 min readSep 11, 2017

It’s all about your WHY.

In a previous article, I described my WHY as Health, Wealth, and Happiness:

  • Health: Impressive physique, clean vegan eating, advanced calisthenics, HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training — using a jump rope).
  • Wealth: Make enough to travel the world year-round (~$40,000 for two), keep learning new skills and exploring cultures.
  • Happiness: Spending time with Jess and family, being outside, writing.

To me, that’s more than enough to have a satisfying and enriching life. The question is: How do I accomplish all of these things?

Enter Cape Town, South Africa.

In an article I recently read, David Kadavy explains how amazing shifting your living is for your creative output. He says that a low-friction life, coupled with consistency and a forced disconnection is what is necessary for creative productivity optimization.

To me, Cape Town fits all of the criteria.

Low-friction life involves having consistent creative habits. My habit will be from 9:15 until noon I will be writing in a coffee shop. My goal is 1,500 words daily for my short stories/novel, and another…

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Jake Lyda
Jake Lyda

Written by Jake Lyda

I write about whatever interests me in the current moment: sports, entertainment, creative writing, lifestyle, etc. I'm tired of not being who I am.

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