Self-Improvement

The Daily Man-Up: Mental Strength Training

January 12, 2021 Leave a Comment

I used to be a mental wimp…

No, seriously. About 10 years ago, I was a total mental weakling. I couldn’t go for long without AC, my work ethic was equivalent to that of a 60’s stoner, and the thought of a cold shower just about made me pass out.

Ok, I might be exaggerating a little bit, but I can PROMISE you I wasn’t mentally tough.

Today, I train with heavy weights 4x a week, have taken cold showers (almost) every day for more than half a decade, worked countless 16 hour days to build my 7-figure business, and have generally become way tougher mentally and physically.

If I can do it, anyone can.

Here’s how I boosted my mental strength and how you can to.

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January 5, 2021 Leave a Comment

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The World Will Never Quit Poking You

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.

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December 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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10 Ways To Be A Mentally Stronger Person

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.

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The Daily Man-Up: Learn How to Fail Skillfully

December 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

You’ve been learning how to succeed in your attempts here at self-discipline and setting good habits. Ideally you’ve learned how to discern your highest priorities, create a good plan, and to take immediate action on it.

There’s this flip side, though, to proper self-discipline which is learning how to fail masterfully – as the companion to learning to succeed. If you can develop your ability to fail masterfully, then you’re effectively moving into a more psychologically stable place for long-term growth.

The idea here is that if you can develop a proper relationship with failure, then you no longer need to be polarized (i.e. unnerved) by it, and you can move toward your greater growth with a sense of balance, a certain steadiness without all the triumphant highs and miserable lows.

The purpose of this post, therefore, is speak to this all-important element of self-discipline. Here we go:

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December 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

I created a simple blueprint for me to follow whenever I want something. It is the “If, then” mindset

So a great example of this is with a simple sentence:

I want to start working out, but I don’t have the time.
I want to make art but I am too exhausted.
I want a camera but I have no money

Here is how to change that with the “if, then” rule:

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December 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

With LESS than 1 month to welcome 2021, there are two scenarios on how you can get ready for the new year:

Scenario 1: you wait until January 1st to start thinking about what you want to achieve in the next 365 days. You try to figure out your training and nutrition plans, the habits and routines you need to implement to be successful. You try to figure all out in just one day. You tell yourself “I’m starting on January 1st!”. In the meantime (and because 2020 has been such a hard year ) you have the perfect excuse to let yourself go.

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November 25, 2020 Leave a Comment

Please stop telling yourself “it will all change tomorrow” because it won’t and you know it

It won’t. You know it won’t.

You’re not just going to wake up as a productive supersoldier.

You have to start implementing seemingly small changes today, and building on them every day or every week.

Our bodies and minds don’t like dramatic change of any kind, so you need to take small steps in the right direction.

Get up 15 minutes earlier than usual, not 3 hours.

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November 24, 2020 Leave a Comment

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Regret #2: I Wish I’d Loved Myself More Instead of Chasing Approval From Other People

Everything in our culture screams that we need to be in love with another person in order to be happy. Movies, TV and books show us that we only feel truly alive when we’re in love with another person – that’s when we can sing in the shower and shout in the streets.

But this is a lie.

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November 16, 2020 Leave a Comment

how to defeat procrastination

You’re not lazy, you’re not unmotivated, and there’s nothing wrong with you.

I’d like for you to really hear that, because it’s true. You’re not lazy, you’re not unmotivated, and there’s nothing wrong with you.

A struggle with laziness is really just the result of a lack of clarity on your priorities. That’s all it is. When you have this sorted, everything else falls into place.

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November 3, 2020 Leave a Comment

Designing your Life – MIT OpenCourseware

Found this interesting course that was run through MIT and is now available online free of charge. Click Here

This course provides an exciting, eye-opening, and thoroughly useful inquiry into what it takes to live an extraordinary life, on your own terms. The instructors address what it takes to succeed, to be proud of your life, and to be happy in it. Participants tackle career satisfaction, money, body, vices, and relationship to themselves. They learn how to confront issues in their lives, how to live life, and how to learn from it.

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