Charlie Sheen transformed my agency

Four months ago, I set out on a two-week experiment that has changed my life forever. And sadly it causes me to utter the name… Charlie Sheen. I had avoided all the interviews, articles and videos and decided to dive into them one morning to see what it looks like when a star falls from the sky. Surprisingly, I found bits of wisdom in the madman's rants. Today I sit back down in the same chair I did four months ago to tell the story and hope you don't think me mad. Well, that's not actually true. I don't care what you think about me, but I do hope you get a laugh and some insight into your own insanity.

The experiment started with me reviewing my to-do list and realising I didn’t want “to do” most of it. There were just too many things to manage in my day-to-day life. Don’t get me wrong, I’m grateful for everything I have. nGen has let me live life on my terms. Or has it? This was the question I asked myself. What if I just quit doing the things I didn't want to do? What if I focused on winning and ignored all the losing things? What would happen? So I made two lists, Winning and Losing. Then I quit doing everything under the Losing list. Here's what happened.

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