How often do you wish you were more disciplined?
Chances are, if you spent all this time taking baby steps towards more willpower instead of lamenting your lack of it, you’d be halfway there already.
Today, you’re not getting off the hook for once.
You could have more self-control less than 10 minutes from now.
These nine actions can be taken in 60 seconds or less each – and they won’t cost you a penny.
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Are you as disciplined as you’d like to be?
No?
Do you want to toughen up?
Have that twinkle in your eye that says: “Life, if you punch me in the face, you know I’ll just grit my teeth and fight back even harder.”
Oh you do? Sure, who wouldn’t.
That’s why I spent all of last week pondering how to help you do just that, and create a framework for it.
Here’s what I came up with.
Look, I get it. It’s hard to get out of bed in the morning. There are plenty of excuses not to, but I’m sorry, “I just lack motivation these days” isn’t one of them.
So here’s what I’ll do:
Deal? Deal.
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You have to stop it. Seriously. You just might kill yourself doing it. I almost did.
This was my view when it happened:
Here’s what SHOULD have been my view:
But it was too late. I felt it. The right front tire went over the white line. The car started vibrating as the tire hit the grass.
Are you on the list already? The one with the Nobel Peace Prize recipients I mean. No? Then you might wanna keep reading.
Our star today is one of only 103 people in history who have won the Nobel Peace Prize, worth $40 million, and the most powerful man on the planet. At least he was for a while. I’m talking about…Barack Obama, of course.
What’s the man’s secret? Where does he come up with all the willpower? Is it his Hawaiian heritage? His sleep schedule? The suit? Yes. It’s the suit.
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What’s the difference between these two pictures? Hint: It’s the same guy.
His name is Hal Elrod, and in the picture on the left, he is dead. But the picture of the jumping, happy guy on the right was taken way later. So what’s the story? If I gave Hal 3 words to sum it all up, I know exactly what they would be:
The Miracle Morning.
You know waking up early is a great habit, right? You’ve heard it dozens of times: all successful people get up early.
Tim Cook (4:30 am), Benjamin Franklin (5:00 am), Michelle Obama (4:30 am), Warren Buffett (6:45), the list goes on and on.
But what turned into a nightmare for Bill Murray in Groundhog Day – waking up at 6 am sharp every day that is – seems like a distant dream for you.
(it’s Groundhog Day – again)
What if I told you that there were only 2 steps you have to get right, in order to wake up early every day?
Even more so, that neither of them has anything to do with your morning.
You’d be shocked, right? You’d probably tell me: You’re crazy Nik, and I don’t believe you.
Do you sometimes not want to start your day when you look at your to-do list in the morning?
Do you see 34 tasks, 33 of which you either dread or don’t see the point in?
You have to walk the dog.
Write a blog post.
Answer emails.
Then you’re supposed to walk the dog again.
File some papers.
Call a prospective client.
I get it. To-do lists can be a burden. Not too long ago, I had the same problem. Read More
On September 12th last year I felt pretty good about myself. My Bachelor’s thesis was all done, I had a month to prepare for the presentation and my first website was done, all shiny and new.
4 weeks earlier I had decided that a) I was going to take a year off before eventually starting a Master’s and b) I was going to use that year to become my own boss and stop living off my parents’ money.
All I wanted was to make $500 a month, so I could pay for rent and food.
Since I had spent 2 semesters studying abroad, and friends kept asking me to review their English papers, I thought I’d do a great job at translating between English and German.
That day I had just put the finishing touches on the intro video.
Fast forward to mid October, one month later. I had just sent out 50+ emails to former customers of translation agencies, trying to collect information about why they had hired a translator, what results they had hoped for and how they found who they were looking for.
The results after over a month of work: $0.
