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You must ruthlessly eliminate temptations from your day.
Take five minutes tonight and create that plan.
List your weaknesses. Then identify two solutions to beat each one.
The weapons we need in our arsenal are control, focus, persistence, and preparation.
Beating procrastination takes preparation and knowing your strengths and weaknesses so that you can leverage what works and eliminate what doesn’t.
The only thing that helps you overcome procrastination is to be prepared and to actually do the thing you’re procrastinating about.
Action is the simplest way to avoid procrastination.
behavioral congruence.
Like the opposite of cognitive dissonance
Compare what you say you want against what you actually do. Do they match? If not, it’s time to change and figure out what really matters. Once you do, line up your priority with the actions you need to achieve it, and then embrace the pain, pay the price, and earn the prize.
You can solve this problem by creating your rules that will guide your decisions and actions. Get started there, and then continuously work to improve your behavioral congruence in all aspects of your life.
“Only when habits of order are formed can we advance to really interesting fields of action,” wrote the philosopher William James.
Habits are the secret to getting ahead in life and achieving your big goals and dreams.
The solution is in having a trigger that reminds you to get back on track. Triggers are little tricks t...
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It just needs to be an easy, yet effective, reminder that triggers you to get back to the task at hand.
Step #1 – Figure Out What Matters…and Focus On It
Step #2 – Identify Steps to Success and Rules for Your Life
Step #3 – Create a Checklist for New Habits
Each habit needs to be broken down into action items for you to get started.
Step #4 – Prepare the Night Before
Set out any tools you will need to do the first things first.
Step #5 – Remove All Obstacles
Eliminating the negatives is often more important for success than relying on willpower for the creation of new habits.
Step #6 – Take Massive Action
We can believe in ourselves or we can have doubt. It’s our choice.
“To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds,” said Epictetus.
We repeat what we reward.
Step #7 – Learn & Improve
The single most important factor in winning your mornings and owning your days is to get up fifteen minutes earlier and work on your number one priority before anyone else is awake.
10 hours before bed – No more caffeine. 3 hours before bed – No more food or alcohol. 2 hours before bed – No more work. 1 hour before bed – No more screen time (turn off all phones, TVs and computers). 0 – The number of times you will hit the snooze button in the morning.
Brain Dump.
Write down everything going through your head. Write fast and furious. Get it all out. Now take that paper and set it aside, perhaps in your office or at the front door under your car keys. Now forget about it for the rest of the day. It can wait until tomorrow. That will
internalize the benefits
Remember why you are doing this.
If you want more sleep, you need to get to bed earlier, not wake up later.
Controlling your morning and winning your days starts at minute zero. Don’t lose the momentum in your life to the snooze button. Start winning your day immediately.
5 Pillars of Success. These are planning & preparation, professional accountability, social support, an incentive, and the big deadline.
The enemy cares not for what you did yesterday. It starts fresh again today.
Anthony Bourdain’s book Kitchen Confidential
mise-en-place,
“Meez,” as chefs pronounce it, translates into “everyth...
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Control requires the removal of temptation, and temptations are individual.
Identify your temptations. Write them down. And then plan and prepare to methodically remove them from your morning.
Avoid having candy in the house in the first place and voilà, no temptation at all.
Some you can conquer with planning and preparation. Some will require elimination.
There are many things we want to accomplish in life, but there can be only one number one priority at a time. Know it, attack it, and focus on it every day. Create the right working environment, right now, and conquer your day so you can concentrate on what counts at night.
You need professional accountability. You need to be constantly checking in with someone who can give you expert feedback and guide you to making better choices, building better habits, and getting better results.
By explaining your new habits, you will better understand their importance, and furthermore, you will become more committed to these new behaviors.
“While we teach, we learn,” said the Roman philosopher Seneca.
“You cannot brighten another’s path without lighting your own,” said my friend and mentor, Frank McKinney.
First, you must practice what you preach. Second, you must practice preaching it.
