8 Tiny Habits That Made Me Rich
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Your tomorrow is won or lost the night before, if you don't have a solid morning routine in place. In this episode, I'm going to show you how to build habits that will start your day clear and prepared, build energy and stay consistent, set up your environment so progress feels automatic, and many more improvements that will make your life feel easier and better every week.
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These eight habits quickly transform my life and if you try them for just seven days they'll
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transform yours too. I went from an ADHD mess to someone who can run several multi-million
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dollar companies while still having time for my family, travel, and my hobbies. In this video
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I'm going to show you how to build habits that will start your day clear and prepared,
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build energy and stay consistent, set up your environment so progress feels automatic,
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and many more improvements that will make your life feel easier and better every week.
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You essentially can't have a productive morning if you have a weak night routine.
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Because bedtime for me, it's the real productivity hack.
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The metaphor I like to think about is like my battle for my day
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And there's a few things you need to do every night before bed.
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My whole week is dialed in the Sunday before the week.
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And I'll actually touch on how you do that in a little bit.
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I have an alarm that goes off to tell me to go to bed.
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Next, dump all your open loops into a list before you go to sleep.
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which they needed to write down and forget about,
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but instead they like sat there and thought about it
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and then I watch a show and then I can't see any sleep.
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And finally, put any unfinished tasks in your calendar
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I have a Google Doc where I dump all the unfinished tasks
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and it's linked to my calendar for the next day to review,
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so that I don't have any open projects or tasks
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Now you set yourself up for success the night before.
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sets the tone and your mood for the rest of the day.
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exhaust the body, tame the mind. Why? See, when I was diagnosed with ADHD at 11 and struggled on
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medication for 20 plus years, being somebody that I wasn't, it occurred to me that the harder I
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worked out, the more ability I had to control my thoughts, control my focus, control my output.
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And that morning time is so important to get that right that I don't leave it up to chance.
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So to do this, block the first 60 minutes of every day and do these three steps.
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It's all the worst things happening in the world.
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And everybody's like, but I need to know what's going on.
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Trust me, the other people watching news will tell you.
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Or your inbox of other people's priorities on your time
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Simple, put a weighted vest on and go for a walk
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or go to the gym and go see how heavy you can live.
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Like you literally lay there for seven or eight hours,
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drink that electrolyted water, hydrate and watch your brain revive itself.
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I promise you, if you start doing these things first thing in the morning,
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you'll see your whole life transform like that.
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And look, I know a lot of you watching are business owners or CEOs who wake up reactive.
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Inbox, slack, fires. That's why your weeks disappear.
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That's why the first thing I do with every coaching client is install the five daily non-negotiables
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that help them operate from momentum instead of chaos.
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I've helped thousands of very high-level entrepreneurs transform their businesses
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and their lives. So if you're a business owner and you're trying to cross seven figures and
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becoming the leader you need to be, find me on Instagram, Dan Martell, and DM me the word
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YouTube coach, and I'll see if I can help. Okay, now that you've prepared your body on a daily
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basis, if you really want to transform your life, you need to prep your mind. Habit number three,
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mindful journaling. You get in life what you focus on. And if you don't learn that you are
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not your thoughts, that you won't actually create this separation, the learning. See,
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when you can write out your goals, write out your strategies, write out your desires, that act
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takes it out of here, which is a bad place to keep things and gets it out of your head. And
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the cool part is it only takes five minutes. Like I'm not asking you to sit there and journal for
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an hour. And it's not about writing a book other people are going to read. It's just about getting
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your thoughts out of your mind. When I was in my mid twenties, I remember I was dealing with a
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massive issue at work. And one of my mentors gave me a simple suggestion. Hey man, wake up tomorrow,
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write everything that's on your mind down and finish it with some gratitude. See, my problem
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is I was spiraling in my head. And as soon as I put it on paper, I can look at it. I could process
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it. That act of doing that writing every morning is what got me through it. And this is why I
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First, do the one big brain dump on anything on your mind.
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or conversations you should have or concerns you have,
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Like today, I wanna accomplish these two things.
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Most people wanna do three or five or seven or 10.
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look, if you just got two meaningful projects completed for that day, you can take that momentum
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if you want into three, four, five, up to 10. It doesn't matter. I always write down two.
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And finally, three things you're grateful for. But here's the trick. One of those has to be
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the most mundane thing ever. When I was going through that really tough time in my business,
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one of my gratitude items was my coffee cup. Because I'll tell you, I was so grateful for
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of coffee in my cup. And I wrote that down for six months. That might be the reason I got through it.
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This will get all the clutter, that mess that's in your mind and get it out on paper so you can
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organize it in a way that allows you to attack it. So now that your mind is clear and you've
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prepped things, you've organized things, we need to transform your life by training your mind.
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Habit number four, learn daily. This one is a non-negotiable. I don't care if I have three
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minutes, I'm feeding my brain. Because here's what my billionaire mentor said to me a long time ago.
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He said, if you already knew everything you needed to know to be successful, you'd be successful.
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So by the fact that you're not, you don't. See, school was never meant to teach you what to learn.
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School was meant to teach you how to learn. And most people forgot that. I wish somebody would
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have said that to me. It's not about reading a book. It's about studying a book. For $30,
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I can buy the blueprint of somebody who's accomplished the thing that I'm trying to do,
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and I discover this yellow book on Java programming
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and that passion that I discovered in that moment
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When you look at Elon, you look at Oprah, Zuck,
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they've all attributed their success to reading.
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One, read at least 10 pages of a book every morning.
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Because then those 10 pages are a lot quicker to get through.
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But I've been doing this for 18 years, almost religiously.
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And number two, make sure you choose just-in-time books,
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don't read it unless that's what you need to read today.
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a golden nugget of knowledge, apply it immediately.
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If I feel that passage and it inspires me to do something,
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And to go even further and to really lock it in,
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My favorite way is to actually screenshot the book passage,
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highlight it, and then tell people on my social media
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and also hold you accountable to always reading.
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If you think about it, you can have the best mindset,
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and I put you on a beach and it's sunny outside,
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You are the byproduct of where you spend the most time.
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the people you talk to, the way you structure your environment. Is it clean? The things you
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look at, you are a sensory adapter to the world around you. Most people underestimate or don't
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even consider designing that. And I always break that down into two parts, the people and the
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place. People, those raise or lower your standards by the expectation they have on your life. We'll
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dig into that. The places define your energy and your focus. You ever walk into a room and you're
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like, I feel the vibe of this place. The way I like to frame it is people are either pulling you
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up or they're pushing you down. They're either supporting your dreams or telling you why you
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should stay small. And here's what I know. God has a way bigger plan for you than being a big fish
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in a really small pond. So make sure you're in the right pond. So here's how you can design your life
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See, most people make it hard on themselves to win.
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So for example, I don't keep shit in my house
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like boxes of peanut butter and chocolate Ritz.
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but if they did, I would eat the whole frigging box
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it's easier to avoid the dragon than to slay it.
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For example, there's a certain type of protein bar
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So I had to tell my team, hide them in the office.
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and I found where they hid it in the bottom drawer
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in the back cabinet and I fucking grabbed the box.
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I'm also human and I'm always designing my environment
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to make the right decision, the easiest one.
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The people around you and their expectations of you
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And most people that join that are not into that,
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her beginning weight to deciding to drop 40 pounds and hit the best physique she's ever
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had in her life on her own through the exposure of surrounding herself by where she decided to work
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with killers. Okay, with everything we just talked about, we set ourselves up for success,
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but now we need to keep track of growth every day, which takes us to habit number six,
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measure what matters. You can improve what you don't measure. The other day, a friend of mine
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looked at me. He said, hey man, how fat were you in that picture? And I said, the truth was, I don't
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know because I refused to step on a scale then. He goes, oh, that makes sense. Why do you think I was
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fat? Because I didn't measure. I didn't want to know. And what I've learned in business and in
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life is anything that's important to me, the more I measure it and more frequently I am with it,
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the more honest I'll be about it. See, numbers just reveal the truth. They give you the foundation
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for you to actually push against to make change.
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how can you make a better decision to improve the situation?
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She wanted to know what her body composition was.
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Then she measured every day, every macro, every calorie.
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she created accountability. I call that a forcing function. But if you don't measure, how can you be
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accountable to something you don't know about? To make this super simple for you, I'm going to give
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you only two steps you need to measure your success. First, you need to find your North Star
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metric. It's the one number that moves the needle the most. So every goal that you want to accomplish
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has one of them. You just got to figure out what it is. So for example, if it's getting in shape,
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then the North Star metric could be just your macros.
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And the whole point is to be in a caloric deficit.
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there's probably one number that if you could figure out,
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it's like a leading indicator to you achieving your goal.
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and if you're still confused, just ask AI, it'll tell you.
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Then we need to create a scorecard around that metric.
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I want you to like look it up and write it down
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the metric and the measurement will change everything.
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Now that you're able to see the progress on a daily basis,
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you need to build the habits to keep those numbers growing.
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fight for momentum momentum you know when you're in it it feels good you're like you've got
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momentum there's consistency there's productivity you feel good about yourself it's like you're in
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flow positive momentum when you're in it compounds faster because everybody else sees it and they're
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like what are they doing different how do I support them you just act differently so my
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whole thing is you're either spiraling up or you're spiraling down if you woke up today and
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10 pounds heavier there was a day in the past where you woke up and you might have made a simple
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decision to skip the gym but that one day turned into six days turned into 30 days and all of a
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sudden now you get on 10 pounds if you start to spiral down you want to catch it quick what's
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funny is that's the natural state like most people when they start to win they almost feel guilty
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about it and then they kind of lose the momentum look at your habits look at your mindset whatever
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worked. Keep doing it. Fight to stay in it. Don't let other people convince you. Like if you look
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at the difference between winners and losers is that winners have bad moments, but losers have
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bad days. How do you actually stay in momentum? How do you protect yourself? There's only three
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things you got to keep in mind. One, done is better than perfect. If you know you should go
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to the gym, just get up and get outside and go for a run. Like don't overcomplicate it. Just do
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anything, right? Those tiny little wins will add up. Just get it done, even if it's just sloppy.
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Number two, kill negative momentum immediately. Anytime you feel somebody or something, people
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are placed, kind of get in your way from being in momentum. You have to be honest with yourself and
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just say, I got to create some space. I got to not expose myself to that. I got to not read those
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comments because those little decisions add up. So for example, I made a commitment that I never
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miss the gym two days in a row. One day, totally cool. If it's an early morning flight and I can't
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get to the gym, that's okay. Never two days in a row. Think of it this way. I like this language.
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Don't let a slip turn into a slide. And the last one, number three, celebrate big wins. One of the
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worst habits I've seen from really high performing people is they don't celebrate their wins. So if
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you're one that's like, I don't like celebrating because I don't feel like I got there. Stop that.
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Now, before we move on to the last habit, let me warn you.
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it might be the most important habit of them all.
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People that look at winners think they're special.
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And it's crazy because there's always gonna be stress
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that is self-imposed. And then there's distress. That is stress from the world imposing the
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pressure on you because you're reacting to making easy decisions because they weren't hard decisions.
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You stress build your identity. Distress appears when you avoid hard choices. It's like when I was
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training for my Ironman. I was training three weeks before the race and a van cut me off
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while I was in aero position going 25 miles an hour.
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it destroyed my bike it almost dislocated my hip and when I started talking to my friends that were
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also training with me for the Ironman and family members they all said to me maybe you should sit
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this out and I remember thinking I could and nobody else would hold it against me in many
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ways they were encouraging me to do it but then I realized a quote I heard a long time ago is
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sometimes life is getting you ready to receive what you've been asking for and i knew in that
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moment i could choose easy and not race or i can go work my way to find another bike train on the
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bike rehab myself and show up to the starting line and i will tell you that full distance ironman
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that i started on a bike i hardly trained on in the heat we were running in if i didn't go through
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that the mental preparation to deal with that level of heart i'm telling you i had to go into
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a pain cave i didn't want to enter but because i went through that it got me ready it was the
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most ridiculous thing i'd ever done in my life to that point and in the same breath when i finished
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i got crazy emotional because i knew i'd earned that and if i didn't go through it i wouldn't
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have grown through it to become the person who could have kept pushing so if life is hard good
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because winners push past the point where everybody else said stopping was justified so if you want to
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prioritize choosing hard to transform your life do this first pick one challenge that scares you
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i don't care if it's the everesting challenge 75 hard running your first 10k literally deciding to
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drop 10 pounds just pick something that you know you have a hard time doing and decide to use it
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to shape you two tell people about your commitment activate it activate the outcome tell people
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because it'll create accountability i call it positive peer pressure go on social media and
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tell everybody this is what i'm going to do by this date hold me accountable three when you hit
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the wall and you will say good. When you can reprogram your mind and go, man, I don't want
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to do that. Good. Oh my gosh, this is hard. Good. Why? Because if it was easy, everybody would have
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it. And the point of having it isn't to have it. It's to become the person who can get it.
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This is why I shoot these videos. This is why I'm here for you. I want to show you that there's
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nothing special about what I've done. I just chose hard. I decided to get up and say, look,
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I don't want to just retire. I don't want to rest on my past accomplishments. I don't want to be
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okay. I want to see what's possible. And four, stack everything with your previous habits.
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See, as you work through these, you build a winning streak. You build momentum through
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consistency. And if you can build the habit to choose hard by default, so few people do that,
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that it'll separate you from everybody else and transform your life. With all that being said,
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I want to end on this. Your life is the byproduct of your habits. And I know you've probably like
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tried things in the past and it didn't work and you reset and you're like, you're beating yourself
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up for it. I want you to know this, that dream life you want is so close. I actually think if
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you knew how close it was, it would scare you. It's a few days away from being a little bit
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better, a little bit more consistent, a little bit more disciplined that over time it stacks
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and it snowballs. And all of a sudden you wake up one day and you're like, how is this my life?
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and it's not a decade it literally could be six months but the key is you got to start with one
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and you got to dial it in and then you got to stack the next and the whole philosophy that i
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like to think to myself is can i be one percent better every day i'm not competing against anybody
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else in the world not my brother not my friends not the internet i'm here to compete against me
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me from yesterday, you from yesterday, and you can wake up right now. You can start right now
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and decide to get on that journey and watch your whole life transform in front of you.
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And remember, if you're a business owner and you're looking to grow both in your business
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and your life, just find me on Instagram and message me YouTube coach, and I'll see if I can
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help. And if you want to learn how to get rich without luck, talent, and a trust fund,