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The Daily Man-Up: Top 5 Lessons From A 10 Year Journey To Becoming Disciplined
October 22, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Man-Up |
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No one becomes disciplined overnight. It’s a lifetime journey.
I think there’s way too much emphasis placed on “motivation” and “willpower.” Instead, I think it’s better to understand how human behavior works, and use it to your advantage.
Here are the five most important things I’ve learned about becoming more disciplined, and I hope it helps you.
Win the Morning, Win the Day
It’s a big challenge to have a productive day – That’s 24 hours. It can become overwhelming!
Instead, I only focus on two things.
- I make sure I have a good night’s sleep. If I don’t sleep well, then I’m not on my A game the next day.
This means I go to bed early, I avoid screens at night, I make the room colder, etc.
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The Daily Man-Up: There Are No More Zero Days
October 21, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Man-Up, Work-Life/Goals |
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Rule #1 – THERE ARE NO MORE ZERO DAYS
What’s a zero day? A zero day is when you don’t do a single fucking thing towards whatever dream or goal or want or whatever that you got going on. No more zeros. I’m not saying you gotta bust an essay out everyday, that’s not the point. The point I’m trying to make is that you have to make yourself, promise yourself, that the new SYSTEM you live in is a NON-ZERO system. Didnt’ do anything all fucking day and it’s 11:58 PM? Write one sentence. One pushup. Read one page of that chapter. One. Because one is non zero. You feel me? When you’re in the super vortex of being bummed your pattern of behaviour is keeping the vortex goin, that’s what you’re used to. Turning into productivity ultimate master of the universe doesn’t happen from the vortex. It happens from a massive string of CONSISTENT NON ZEROS. That’s rule number one. Do not forget.
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The Daily Man-Up: Start Creating An Excellent Relationship With Yourself
October 18, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Self-Improvement |
If you’ll forgive me, I’m going to make a few assumptions about you:
– You know what you should be doing, and you’re not doing it.- If you DID do it, today and daily, you would create an entirely better life for yourself.- You experience a lot of conflict with yourself.- You know you should be kinder to yourself, but you’re not.- You feel insecure, you feel that you’re not where you should be in life.- This makes you feel guilt, shame, and regret.
Is this you? Please don’t worry; it’s all of us.
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The Daily Man-Up: Why Fear Should Be Your Compass in Life, Not a Deterrent
October 17, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Man-Up |
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Our deepest, darkest, most numbing fears aren’t spiders, rats, or snakes.
While they may frighten us, our fear of spiders and such, probably won’t lead us to live a small, insignificant life. Fear of failure will.
We fear insignificance, and never truly experiencing the vast adventures that life can potentially offer us if we have the courage that they require of us. We fear that we’re headed on a road that will leave us alone in our beds, with regret as our only companion as we face whatever comes next.
Although fear can make us live small lives spent worrying about trivial things as great adventures pass us by, it can also be the solution to the problem, and the riddle that life throws at us daily: Why are we here?
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The Daily Man-Up: If You Want To Make Progress, You Need To Stop Avoiding The Unpleasant Moments
October 15, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Life Advice |
Somewhere along the line, we seem to have gained this idea that we need to enjoy every single second of our lives—that for some reason, we are no longer okay with putting in a few minutes of effort to get something great out of it. We’ve stopped putting work into anything that we don’t enjoy at that moment.
Get rid of that mindset. It’s holding you back more than pretty much anything else in your life. Getting things done is going to mean putting in effort. I know you don’t want to, and I do not care. The world does not care. The world isn’t going to coddle your ass because you just want to sit there on the internet.
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The Daily Man-Up: 20 Excuses Stopping You From Ever Achieving Your Goals And Becoming Disciplined
October 14, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Man-Up, Work-Life/Goals |
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Let’s be honest:
How many goals have you stopped yourself from achieving?
You know what you need to do.
But you have an excuse, or maybe a few, that hold you back.
Well, it’s time to destroy those excuses.
So find your excuse, and learn why it’s a bunch of crap so you can get on with being the awesome person you are meant to be:
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The Daily Man-Up
October 11, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Life Advice |
Finite.
Make them count.
– Jocko Willink
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The Daily Man-Up: Mindset and Mental Focus
October 10, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Life Advice |
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Everybody wants more for their lives, but they’re unwilling to put forth the effort necessary to gain more.
The cause for this is primarily two things, that if you address, will drastically improve the quality of your life, the people within it, and the things you’re able to enjoy within your life.
Mindset and Mental Focus.
Mindset is important, because fundamentally, what you believe of yourself, and what you’re capable of, is exactly what you’ll gain and achieve in life. Now, this fact is hard for some people to accept and believe, because they believe that they already think about changing their lives enough to warrant different circumstances in their lives.
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Vegan Restaurant Owner Blasts Man in Face With Fire Extinguisher for Smoking Cigarette
October 9, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Work-Life/Goals |
An angry vegan restaurant owner fired a fire extinguisher at a man because he was smoking a cigarette near his restaurant.
Apparently, Bird, who had been volunteering at an arts festival downtown, lit up near the entrance of one of Jamison’s restaurants. Jamison told him to leave and he walked off. Jamison came back and insisted Bird was still within 25 feet of the entrance. He brought along the safety device as backup.
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The Daily Man-Up: Give Yourself The Gift Of “Enoughness”
October 9, 2019 | No Comments » | Topics: Life Advice |
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“Not-Enough” isn’t your friend.
If you’re like me, then you’ve been plagued with the sense of “not enough” your whole live-long life.
It’s always been; not enough money, not attractive enough, home isn’t good enough, grades aren’t high enough, I’m not loved enough, not enough sex, not enough experiences, not enough travel, not enough likes, followers, upvotes.
Whenever we believe in not-enoughness then we’re operating on unstable ground. To feel like we haven’t done enough, or that we don’t have enough – is to feel a sense of insecurity, a sense of unwellness, and a need to arrive at the place of Enough.