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#1 Mistake People Make When Building A Habit

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The #1 mistake people do when they start building a habit is relying too much on willpower. They believe that building a healthy habit like daily exercising, is only possible if you go hard and you push yourself everyday to show up and be disciplined.

While this plan might work for people who have trained and grown their willpower muscle to above average size (think: really fit and healthy people, who just keep on getting healthier), it won’t work for majority of us, because of a single reason that willpower is finite resource and if we ask more than it can handle – we’ll quit.

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High Performers Are Successful As a Result of Consistent Action, Not Intense Effort.

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After a decade of setting goals every year and never achieving them, here’s what finally clicked:

High performers are successful as a result of consistent action, not intense effort.

This single realization led me to a framework for building habits that has changed my life.

Working from home last year made me realize that at 27, I had no good habits and zero self-discipline.

I was going to bed after 3am and sleeping past noon.

I wasn’t working out consistently.

I was browsing Reddit and watching Netflix for up to 10 hours a day.

I wasn’t doing any of the work needed to build my business…

I hated myself. The more promises I broke, the more worthless I felt, and the louder the voice in my head became:

Why can’t I fix this?

Why am I so weak?

This is how my dreams die.

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Six Healthy Habits Every Man Should Have

Good habits are the building blocks of a healthy, happy and successful life. Luckily for us, we have more control over our health than many of us would think – and this all comes down to the habits that we choose to adopt. 

Habits can be healthy or problematic. They can range from hitting the gym to vegging on the couch; from learning a new language to endless procrastination; from telling ourselves that we’re worthy to beating ourselves up every time we make a mistake. 

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The Daily Man-Up: Habits Are The Compound Interest Of Self‐Improvement.

Habits are the compound interest of self‐improvement. The same way that money multiplies through compound interest, the effects of your habits multiply as you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five, or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits and the cost of bad ones becomes strikingly apparent.

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The Daily Man-Up

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Over the course of the past couple of years in self-development, I’ve come down the these conclusions:

  1. You are an outsider before you are an insider
  2. Everything is hard before it is easy
  3. There is an acclimation time before hard becomes easy
  4. Once hard becomes easy, it will be something you “do”
  5. Something you “do” becomes who you “are” over time.
  6. Who you “are” is changeable moment by moment.

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The Daily Man-Up

how to start a habit

Start one small habit, so small and insignificant you won’t even mention it. Like sitting with a correct posture. Begin it now and just gently remind yourself about it every morning. That’s it. This is how serious self-improvement begins.