You all want to implement these habits because you want to shape your life in a certain way – you want certain results from these habits.
The challenge I’m proposing today is important because when we don’t see results we quickly lose our motivation and fall off the wagon of positive change.
What we need to understand is that a lack of results isn’t a bad thing as long as we can make use of it in a positive way.
As adults (gasp), we face dozens of questions everyday:
Most of these questions are pretty small and trivial. The answer you choose probably won’t have any lasting long-term impact on your life.
Too many of us believe in a magical being called ‘passion’. “If only I could find my passion”, we cry. “Finding my passion would make me happy”.
Well, passion is real, and very powerful. But almost everything people believe about finding it is wrong.
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About 6 Months ago I started doing something that changed my life, and I have continued it to this day because of the amazing effect. Every day an alarm would ring on my cell phone at a random time during the day. As soon as this alarm would ring I would look down at my cell phone and see the following:
Try something different: stop thinking about the big picture, and start thinking in Polaroids.
The big picture is what we tell ourselves we must do in life: we must graduate from college with a stellar GPA, we must accept a job offer at a stable company with excellent benefits, we must also buy a new car, several years down the road we really must get a promotion, or exchange the car for a more expensive one to match the promotion, or move to a more upscale neighborhood, etc. A big picture is usually vague, abstract, full of grandiose ideas we want to share with others, and can often fill us with anxiety and overwhelm.
1) “I’M TOO TIRED.”
No you’re not!
If you aren’t fainting on the spot, you’re not too tired. If you have had enough sleep, then there’s no excuse.
You only get to be tired after you gave your 200% or if you’re sick.
It’s an often asked question of Musk – ‘How did he learn so much?’
Since childhood, he has been a tireless self learner. At the age of 10 he resorted to reading Encyclopedia Britannica after devouring every other book at home.
From interviews and discussions with Musk, its becomes apparent that he views people as computer systems, being made up of hardware (body) and software (mind). Recognizing that your software is one of the most powerful tools that you possess, Musk works tirelessly on updating his, feeding it with more knowledge and information when he wants to understand a problem.
When it comes to defining success, we usually have difficulties with this task. Indeed, we are not likely to hold a shared view on how to define and measure success.
It is worth commencing with emphasizing that success is the thing that everybody perceives and defines differently. There is no common measure of success. Nor is there a common definition.
What might be considered as success by one person, can have nothing to do with what another one believes success is.
It’s the ability to not give a fuck about almost anything in life. This is by far the most effective life hack that you will ever come across. It’s also one of the main factors that contributes toward your happiness.
So let’s see how this life hack can take you miles ahead than most people out there.
We tend to underestimate how we get thrown off by becoming intoxicated with extreme mental and emotional states.
We’ve all been there – we’ve all experienced the fall into negative emotional states that might affect us for weeks or months at a time.
There’s this concept I was introduced to – The Law of Opposites – the general concept being that at the end of one thing is always its direct opposite.
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