How A T-Shirt Changed My Life

It's a cheap t-shirt. In fact I got it for free at a conference I went to recently. It's not really anything special, just a grey cotton t-shirt and on the front in fluorescent green letters it says "Evolve." That's it. So what is so special about this t-shirt?

Well for me I see it as an instruction. Evolve. You might be asking "Nick, how do I do that? Isn't evolution a process that takes hundreds or thousands of years?" Well beyond altering your DNA what I think of it as is an instruction for a mindset. Evolve. Make yourself better. Push yourself to be better in some way every single day. In the words of James Altucher, improve yourself by 1%. That's it. Evolve. Be better. A simple instruction but definitely a philosophy to live your life by.

Now when I wear this shirt, I often wear it for sports. For those of you who don't know, I recently went through a pretty bad depression. It was a really hard time for me, and I gained a LOT of weight. Recently I have lost almost all the weight (I'm still working on it, but god damn carbs are delicious). This t-shirt serves as a reminder to push myself harder, be better, improve by 1%. Evolve. Don't settle for being ordinary when you can be extraordinary.

And you know what? You can be extraordinary too. Evolve. It's not a process, it's not a theory, we're not talking Darwinism here. Evolve. It's a mindset.