Make your bed every day for 30 days and watch your life change. (Location 49)
Read a book for 20 minutes. It must be a book that either you are curious about or the subject matter is directly relevant to the goals you are currently working towards. (Location 65)
Write down in descending order of importance, the 3 most important tasks (MITs) you will complete today. You must include growth tasks which will move your life and/or business closer to your goals. (Location 71)
Note: MITs
How should you prioritize your 3 tasks? Ask yourself the question, “What task if completed first will make everything easier or irrelevant?” Do that task first. Credit goes to Tim Ferriss for this idea. Smash your 3 tasks before you do anything else. I don’t always obey this rule because sometimes tasks are contingent on having an internet connection, or being at a certain place at a certain time. But I always do my best to complete my 3 MITs by 11:59pm of that particular day. (Location 79)
You can design your schedule so that it gives you flexibility. (Location 91)
Connect with someone smarter than you. Connect with someone smarter than you. Connect with someone smarter than you. Yes, I said that 3 times. I’d be in the fiery pits of anti-success if I hadn’t developed this habit. And it’s not an event, it’s a HABIT. Not only should you connect with people smarter than you, you should connect with those who have achieved the results you want to achieve. (Location 105)
Maybe you’ve read a book by an author who has written a book similar to what you’d like to write. Search their name on Google, uncover their contact details and say hello. It’s not hard. (Location 112)
Here’s a gold nugget for you: Nobody is busy. Not even Elon Musk. Their business has nothing to do with being busy. It’s about priorities. If they say no to your request for a cup of coffee, it’s not because they are busy. It’s because they have higher priorities. (Location 114)
To increase your chances of success of smarter people responding positively to you, it’s important to come from a place of non-neediness and value. (Location 117)
Connecting with smart people should be programmed into your subconscious. When you go to a seminar, a party, a social gathering, a bar… You should always be on the lookout for the highest value person in the room. (Location 122)
Tony Robbins made me aware that the words we use says a lot about our mindset and our mindset drives our lives. So by changing the words you use, you change your life. (Location 128)
Dressing well has a powerful psychological effect on how you feel about yourself and how you behave. (Location 142)
I learnt how to dress from the Alpha M YouTube channel and Antonio Centeno’s channel Real Men Real Style. Instead of me dragging out this book with my kind-of-unqualified teachings, you may as well learn straight from the source so check their channels out! (Location 148)
Holy crap does smiling make a difference. Smiling makes you feel better. Try it now. I’ll wait… The body is the mind. Neurons fire when you smile. It may not get you out of deep depression, but hell it can help the average joe have a merrier day. The best part is you have complete control over whether you smile or not, and it is absolutely free. (Location 168)
21 days is a common myth from the book Psycho Cybernetics. Don’t give up until you reach at least 66 days because each consecutive day your habit becomes a little more automatic. (Location 179)
Multitasking—Big mistake. You’ll end up diversifying your focus and losing the momentum required to build a habit. As a rule of thumb, I only like to start building another habit after 30 days when my first one is semi-automatic. Experiment to see what works for you. (Location 182)
Give your best mate $500 and tell him that no matter what, he can’t give your $500 back unless you complete your habit every single day for 30 days. What are your chances of doing so? Very high indeed. (Location 207)
If you miss 1 day of executing your habit, it reduces your odds of adopting the habit by 5%. But if you miss 2 days of executing your habit, it reduces your odds by 55%. 3 days and it’s 90%. Crikey. (Location 214)
To successfully adopt a new behavior, psychologist BJ Fogg says you need 1 of 3 things…
- You need to have an epiphany
- A change of environment
- Make the behavior tiny (Location 216)
With that said, it may still be advantageous to do your habit in the morning as studies show that the window that begins 2 hours after you wake-up is when your brain is most primed for productivity. (Location 228)
Every habit you pursue is based on this principle. Consider the pleasure you’ll gain from regular exercise. Now consider pain of being sedentary, aka - a lazy ass. By ingraining this into your mind, you’ll gain more motivation to stick to your desired habit. The key is to identify the pain and pleasure that will be caused by not developing a habit as opposed to adopting (Location 231)
