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How to Stop Checking Your Phone Like an Addict

January 3, 2022 Leave a Comment

Hey there, compulsive phone checker.

Much like you, I’m fairly experienced in this area. I used to check my phone compulsively, but have overcome the need to check it, and I’ll share with you how I did it.

It would start out innocent enough, scrolling through Facebook while waiting for a coffee. Or perusing Instagram during breaks at work. I didn’t have a lot of data available to use on my plan, so I was always pretty careful about when I was using it.

But what started as an innocent habit slowly became an addiction and leaked into other areas of my life. I was on my phone all the time: during breaks at work, at meals with friends, while I was hanging out with my parents, while I was at home with my wife. Heck, there was a point I was even texting while driving.

I Like To Revisit This Post Every So Often…

December 31, 2021 Leave a Comment

Hi, I my name’s John. I need to get my life off my chest. About me. I’m a 46 year old banker and I have been living my whole life the opposite of how I wanted. All my dreams, my passion, gone. In a steady 9-7 job. 6 days a week. For 26 years.

I repeatedly chose the safe path for everything, which eventually changed who I was.

The World Will Never Quit Poking You

December 30, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Have you ever felt like your circumstances were trying to break you?

Just when you’ve improved your finances, your car breaks down. You wake up on the wrong side of the bed, come to work to a nagging boss and go home to an indifferent spouse. Every time you take a step forward, you take three back. Inevitably, just as you’re on the rise, something or someone tries to knock you down. If only life would give you a little bit of a break, you tell yourself, you’d have enough energy to make an effort to become successful.

How To Finish What You Start

December 29, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Being a productive person comes down to one thing: You finish what you start. Period.

Projects unfinished, goals left behind, jumping for one thing to another, all of that reinforce the identify of being a lazy person.

You’re not a lazy person, simply you don’t finish what you start.

But, before we get into the tips, let’s go quickly over some of the mistakes that prevent us from finishing what we start.

To Attain High Levels of Self-Discipline, You Need To Be Friends With Yourself

December 28, 2021 Leave a Comment

I wanted to share with you a quick insight that has helped me dramatically increase my ability to set and stick with good habits – generally allow me to get on top of my shit and develop success in my life. What I love about this insight is that it’s super simple, and can create awesome results, but we just don’t have the eyes to see it… until we do.

Not only that, but this will apply to you whether things are in a really bad place and you’re super behind on tons of shit – or if you’re doing relatively okay and you just want to attain higher levels of productivity.

The insight is this: For higher levels of self-discipline, you need to be friends with yourself.

The Saddest Words Ever Spoken Are, ‘One Day I’ll…’

December 27, 2021 Leave a Comment

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ONE DAY I’ll ask out the woman I’m crazy about and we may start dating!

ONE DAY I’ll quit this lousy job and try to find one that fits what I really want to do!

ONE DAY I’ll

start getting in shape!

ONE DAY I’ll start saving money!

ONE DAY I’ll travel the country!

All that sounds great, except that….

A Man Of Principles

December 23, 2021 Leave a Comment

The first and most important rule of life, is to have some rules and principles by which you operate from and live by.

Your success, happiness and level of fulfillment will be dictated to you by the rules you have for yourself and the standard you set and accept for yourself.

If you want to thrive, if you want to blossom into the most beautiful and magnificent and powerful version of yourself then you need to develop your very own “modus operandi” – the way in which you operate, conduct yourself and perform.

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How To Spot A Gold Digger

December 22, 2021 Leave a Comment

1. Understand what a gold digger is, and is not.

There’s nothing wrong with a person being concerned about your financial stability. A long-term partnership means depending on each other through the ups and downs, and being financially reliable does help with that to a degree.

The difference between a gold digger and someone who values your role as a provider is that the gold digger would deride and perhaps leave you if you lost your ability to provide for them financially.

A good person can appreciate your financial resources, but a gold digger appreciates only that, and will not see the relationship as worthwhile if you’re not well off.

10 Ways To Be A Mentally Stronger Person

December 21, 2021 Leave a Comment

1. Stop feeling sorry for yourself

The more you feel sorry for yourself, the more it’ll become an excuse to run away from your problems. This can be elaborated better with the help of a story I got to share with you. There’s a man who works as a gardener for many houses in my locality including one of my neighbors and he has been doing that for years. Off late, I learned that he has a hearing disability and I was left in shock because I was totally unaware of it. He’s one of the most hardworking folks of the maintenance department of our society and the fact that he never let his disability be his excuse to feel sorry for himself inspired me instantly. People like him give us all the more reason to not feel sorry for how life chooses to treat us. So let’s stop pitying ourselves and celebrate the little blessings of life.

The Most Important Life-Changing Habit in Two Words: START NOW

December 20, 2021 Leave a Comment

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Millions of people are convinced that something must change in their lives to be better, to live life to the fullest or pursue something meaningful.

That project, that blog, that podcast, that ebook, that art, that side project is what I’m talking about.

Many people consistently hold back, and waste precious time.