Once you start saying 'No' to unnecessary things, you'll automatically say 'Yes' to the things that matter most to you.

#1. Learn to Say 'No' More

Whether you have a business plan, a new startup idea, or an event that changed your life, jot it down with details in your journal.

#2. Journal Everyday

<ul><li>A normal human has around 6,200 thoughts each day which means 258 thoughts per hour. </li><li>To make your mind at peace, you need to sit in silence each day for at least 5-10 minutes.</li></ul>

#3. Sit in Silence

Most of us React to things that make things difficult for us. Instead of reacting start responding to things.

#4. Don't React; Respond!

Use 5 Second rule.Count down from 5 to 1 and start doing the work which must be done at the moment, instead of how you feel.After some time you'll be in momentum.

#5. Take Action Fast

<ul><li>It helps you grow personally, professionally, and Financially.</li><li>It will make you more likable and interesting as you have got a vast domain of knowledge.</li><li>Confidence: It will boost your confidence as you can speak about anything at any time anywhere.</li><li>It will change your personality from the very core.</li></ul>

#6. Read A lot

<ul><li>Instead of blaming yourself for procrastination or unhealthy behavior, notice what prompted you to do so in the first place.</li><li>Once you find the Cue for your habit you can direct that to some beneficial habit and form a new and meaningful pattern.</li></ul>

#7. Observe Your Pattern

<ul><li>Your life will start changing the moment you stop complaining and start executing things.</li><li>Take charge of your own life and don't blame situations and people.</li><li>You can't change what happens to you at large but you can control how to deal with it. That makes all the difference.</li></ul>

#8. Stop Complaining And Start Doing

<ul><li>Drinking water can make your mind calm and you can think clearly.</li><li>It will help you rehydrate.</li><li>Water can also be proven to make your skin glow.</li></ul>

#9. Drink A Lot Of Water

Do whatever improves your life. It must get you closer to your goal in life or make you financially independent.

#10. What Can You Change Today To Make Your Life Better?

These ideas change me from the very core and enhance my life.

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10 Micro Habits To Improve Your Life In The Next 10 Days

Loserthink as unproductive ways of thinking. Even if you’re intelligent and well-informed, you can fall into the trap of loserthink. The book describes the many different ways in which loserthink can manifest and lead to suboptimal outcomes.

Defining LoserThink

When money, reputation, power, ego, and complexity enter any field, it’s not rational to assume that you will see objective research and outcomes. Adams uses this idea to talk about the dynamics around climate science, which is highly politicized, very complex, and involves money and prestige. Given that these dynamics exist, it’s important to think about how they play into how the topic is researched, discussed, and managed.

Incentives Influence Outcomes

Mental prisons are the forms of loserthink (unproductive thinking) that limit your ability to see the world clearly. And without seeing the world clearly, you won’t be able to act rationally.

Mental Prisons

The inevitable outcome of the press having a business model that rewards brain manipulation versus accuracy is what can be called political warming. As the press becomes increasingly skilled at stimulating the emotion centres in our brains, one should expect the public to be in a continuous state of fight-or-flight anxiety. We’re more scared and angry than we ever have been, at least since World War II. And that means bigger storms ahead in the form of protests and divisivenessBe mindful of how the incentives of the press relate to the stories and information they put out.

The Raw Power Of The Press Is Used For Brain Manipulation

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.We all walk around believing that we hold informed and accurate perspectives about life, people, and the state of the world. This is delusional thinking. You and I are both walking around with ideas about the world that are incorrect.It’s not a problem to be wrong at times. The problem is that you can’t even imagine that you’re wrong. How could you…you’re so informed, thoughtful, experienced…and delusional!Instead of holding your opinion so highly, it’s worth asking yourself the question, “What if I’m wrong?”

Being Right and Being Wrong

If your complaint about other people involves your belief that you can deduce their inner thoughts, you might be in a mental prison. We humans think we are good judges of what others are thinking. We are not. In fact, we are dreadful at it. But people being people, we generally believe we are good at it while also believing other people are not.

You Don’t Know What Other People Think

Put yourself in potentially embarrassing situations on a regular basis for practice. If you get embarrassed as planned, watch how one year later you are still alive. Maybe you even have a funny story because of it.  Note how other people’s embarrassments mean little to you when you are an observer. That’s how much your embarrassments mean to them: nothing.

How to Stop Being Embarrassed

When you combine a human brain that is wired to notice problems with a press that is incentivized to present stories involving huge problems, you can easily start imagining that the world is falling apart in a variety of fatal ways. And that worldview might limit your ability to appreciate everything going right.

The World Is Always Falling Apart

We think we’re good at using pattern recognition to understand the world and other people. The problem is that humans are bad at pattern recognition. We think we’re good at it, but the reality is that we can’t tell the difference between a pattern that predicts an outcome and a pattern that simply reminds us of something and means nothing.

Bad at Pattern Recognition

When it comes to your personal life, business life, and political opinions, it makes sense to favour systems over goals whenever that is practical. A goal gives you one way to win, whereas a system can surface lots of winning paths, some of which you never could have imagined.Instead of thinking about discrete outcomes (goals), it’s worth considering how you can build a system that slowly gets you to various goals and more. Systems may bring multiple winning paths that you could not otherwise predict.

Systems Vs Goals

Sometimes coincidences tell you something useful. But 90 percent of the time they mislead you. Never be too confident about an opinion that depends solely on interpreting a coincidence.On the whole, coincidences don’t tell you much about the world. That said, we feel like they do, and we often misattribute significance to events that mean nothing

Coincidences

Always ask yourself if the opposite of your theory could be true. Doing so keeps you humble and less susceptible to bias until you get to the truth of the situation.In your personal and professional life, ask, “What if the opposite is true?” If you genuinely consider this question, you will find that you may avoid some of the blind spots and biases that would lead you down less good paths.

How to Be Less Susceptible to Biases

To learn and grow, it’s worth finding ways to explore new areas and interests. When you do this, structure your approach in a way that you’ll come out ahead no matter what matters. That means pursuing projects that will teach you useful skills, help you make valuable contacts, or learn to see the world in an expanded way.

How to Pick Projects

If you have a strong opinion about a proposed plan but you have not compared it to the next best alternative, you are not part of a rational conversation.Even if you think you have an awesome plan, you need to compare it to the next best alternative. If you simply state the pros of your plan, and you don’t consider the pros of alternative plans, then you don’t really have much of an argument. You also need to consider cons and costs versus other plans. This rarely happens in politics.

How to Assess the Quality of Your Plan

Judge people by how they respond to their mistakes. A good response involves taking responsibility for the mistake, giving a genuine apology, making amends (if possible), and not repeating the mistake.

A Productive System for Judging Others

Pacing involves matching the person you hope to persuade by agreeing with as much of their position as you can without lying, in order to build rapport and trust before taking on the disagreements.
Always talk first about the points on which you agree, to set the tone and establish yourself as a reasonable voice. If you are debating a topic in the news, start by noting that all news sources are unreliable at least sometimes. Most people will agree with that as a general statement. Once you have established that high-ground truth, you have set the table for persuasion.

Being Persuasive: Pacing

Loserthink is about unproductive ways of thinking. In it, writer Scott Adams will show you how to avoid Loserthink and to become a better and more rational thinker.

From the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, a guide to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality. If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around. "We know when history will repeat and when it won't." "We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences." "The simplest explanation is usually true." Wrong, wrong, and dangerous! If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open. Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it--and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences. Your bubble of reality doesn't have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free--and, what's more, to be among the most perceptive and respected thinkers in every conversation.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Problem Solving

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Books

From the creator of Dilbert and author of Win Bigly, a guide to spotting and avoiding loserthink: sneaky mental habits trapping victims in their own bubbles of reality. If you've been on social media lately, or turned on your TV, you may have noticed a lot of dumb ideas floating around. "We know when history will repeat and when it won't." "We can tell the difference between evidence and coincidences." "The simplest explanation is usually true." Wrong, wrong, and dangerous! If we're not careful, loserthink would have us believe that every Trump supporter is a bigoted racist, addicts should be responsible for fixing the opioid epidemic, and that your relationship fell apart simply because you chewed with your mouth open. Even the smartest people can slip into loserthink's seductive grasp. This book will teach you how to spot and avoid it--and will give you scripts to respond when hollow arguments are being brandished against you, whether by well-intentioned friends, strangers on the internet, or political pundits. You'll also learn how to spot the underlying causes of loserthink, like the inability to get ego out of your decisions, thinking with words instead of reasons, failing to imagine alternative explanations, and making too much of coincidences. Your bubble of reality doesn't have to be a prison. This book will show you how to break free--and, what's more, to be among the most perceptive and respected thinkers in every conversation.

Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Hartwick College in 1979.He also studied economics and management for his 1986 MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.In recent years, Adams has been hurt with a series of debilitating health problems. Since late 2004, he has suffered from a reemergence of his focal dystonia which has affected his drawing. He can fool his brain by drawing using a graphics tablet. On December 12, 2005, Adams announced on his blog that he also suffers from spasmodic dysphonia.

Scott Adams

Loserthink

In what became one of his final interviews before his death, Crazy John’s founder John Ihan sat with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/reubenbuchanan/">Reuben Buchanan</a> to discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur -how he did it.<ol><li>Always have humility</li><li>Be Compassionate</li><li>Be ruthless with your business strategy, but not with individuals</li><li>Always give back to the community</li><li>Whatever you do pick something you love and never ever give up</li><li>Takes risks and learn from your mistakes</li></ol>

Crazy John’s Founder on Principles of Success and Happiness

Many people accomplish a little bit and decide that they are experts, John’s principle of humility keeps you aware of your weaknesses, and leaves room for constant growth and learning. Humility helps you acknowledge your vulnerability to bias and keeps you open to feedback on your blind spots and habits.

1. Always have Humility

Compassion can be understood as recognition of suffering, with an emotional feeling, and a desire to do something to end that suffering. People always remember those who patiently showed them compassion, in their time of distress. However to effectively practice compassion, it’s important that you start with yourself.

2. Be Compassionate

As an entrepreneur you must be able to nurture a culture that embraces change. For that to happen, a clear, coherent strategy outlining your agenda is essential. You will need a clear vision for your company’s future and you should be willing to commit resources and implement the needed policies needed to make change happen. However as mentioned above remember to always show compassion to your stakeholders (customers, employees, suppliers etc.) as your relationship with these people would be greatly impact your success or failure.

3. Be Ruthless with your Business strategy, but not with Individuals

If you treat your staff as your equal, they'll roll their sleeves up to get the job done.

Not only will your kindness influence others, but studies show it’ll also <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/generosity-health_n_4323727">make you happier, too</a>. Being a compassionate person and helping others can help solve some of society’s biggest problems. Find a way that you can share your unique talents or time with a local shelter, an elderly home or at children’s school.

4. Always give back to community

Do what you love is career advice that’s easy to give, but hard to follow, because we can’t always accurately predict what kind of job we’ll love until we’re actually doing it or maybe we love doing a lot of things.

5. Whatever you do, pick Something you love and Never ever give up

<ul><li>What can I do better than others? Think about what you’re really good at, and how you could use the skills where you have an edge in order to get results.</li><li>What problems do I want to solve? This question is productive because it helps you identify your values and the issues you care about, without confining you to a narrow role.</li><li>How do I want to be known? What you do for a living often informs other people’s impressions of you—as well as your own self-image. </li></ul>

Questions to help you choose the right career:

Challenge yourself to take a risk each day, do something new or differently, anything that pushes you out of your comfort zone. Risks help to push your mind beyond its comfort zone.

6. Takes Risks and Learn from your Mistakes

These are ideas on success from the words of the late John Ihan Crazy John's founder.

In what became one of his final interviews before his death, Crazy John's founder John Ihan sat with Reuben Buchanan to discuss what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur -how he did it. Using this interview and others, journalists Nick Gardner and Stephen Corby came up with the following Golden rules for success. Always…

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Leadership & Management

Daily routine plays an important role and it's the most complex part of our daily life.In order to make ourselves productive we have to change our daily routine

Best Daily Routine For A Successful Life 

Morning sleep is the deepest sleep of our sleep cycle and in order to get out of the chain of a sleep cycle you must get out of your bed within the first 30 second when you wake up.  This is very important because the first 30 seconds plays an important role. If you will skip some time for more sleep then it will be hard for you to wake up again. When the alarm rings you have to get up in the first 30 seconds because that time matters the most.

1. Leave your bed under 30 secs

Exercise is the key to staying healthy in life. Start your day with exercise. Exercise makes you fit and  you can live a long and a happy life.  To be a successful person you must have to stay healthy because a healthy mind lives in a healthy body. Start your day with exercise to boost yourself. You can even go for aerobics or you can try out yoga because they are easy and  can make you a healthy person and a fit person soon.

2. Start your day with exercise

Nobody is second to the benefits of meditation,  <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/04/mindfulness-meditation-practice.html">meditation </a> is the key to mindfulness. It's the best way to make your mind more attentive and to grasp more knowledge . Meditation has been a part of our culture from the ancient decades and still plays a major role in giving a lot of benefits. Meditation has many benefits like it makes you focus towards your goals, it makes you attentive, it makes you productive and much more.

3. Practice meditation for 20 mins a day

Morning time is the best time that's known  for peace and start your day with <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/12/Self-improvement.html">personality development </a> . Start by giving self care to yourself, focus on your weak areas, and start learning something new everyday.  Discover your weak areas and discover new ways to improve yourself.

4. Focus on personality development

Reading plays an important role, start your day with positive quotes or  start reading a book or listen to audio books. You can even go for book summaries available on You tube and podcasts. Try learning something new everyday to boost your knowledge. <a href="https://inspirationalblogs45.blogspot.com/2021/08/Top-5-ways%20to-improve-your-positive-thinking%20.html">Stay positive </a>because it makes you happy and stress free throughout the day. Whatever you do in the morning reflects what your day will be.

5. Read something motivating and inspiring

So why don't we think positive about ourselves, why don't we think about growth and that's the key to success in life. Positive affirmations are really helpful believe me or not, they play a very important crucial role in making our life happy.

6. Practice positive affirmations

In order to make your day more productive and efficient this is a must thing that you can do. Make a to-do list in the morning and set up all your work that you have to do throughout your whole  day. Make a list of more prior work and less prior work or primary or secondary work that you have to do throughout your whole day. Start by giving priority to your important work and then to that work that is less important.

7. Make a to do list of task

Air shower is the best way to refresh yourself in the morning.  Fresh air is very helpful for both physically and mentally spending some time alone with yourself, staying in a fresh environment helps you in refreshing yourself.

8. Take air shower

Healthy breakfast is the best meal that you can have. Start your day with something light, have a cup of tea or you can have  oats or salad in the morning. Eating light food makes you more efficient and it reduces the chance of getting bored and being lazy during work. So stop eating junk food and heavy food in the morning, go for something lightweight that will help your stomach too.

9. Have a healthy breakfast

Last but not the least a book is a good friend and indeed its correct a book teaches how to live a healthy life or how can we make a life more better. Reading a book everyday makes you more knowledgeable and it broadens knowledge, it makes you positive and it gives you various tips so that you can make your life better. So why don't you be the one to stand out for self improvement so buy a book from the library or order it online and start reading them today.  If  you feel bored reading books then you can go for audio books of books that are available on YouTube.

10. Read books

What can be a better way to improve yourself rather than improving your daily routine? Let's start from scratch  , improve your daily routine and you will see the changes for a better life. That's all  Good day

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A daily routine is essential in creating a successful life. Here is the best daily routine for a successful life.

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Best daily routine for a successful life

We don’t do unhelpful things with the intent to harm ourselves, for the most part. We do them because the unhelpful habit is meeting some need.<ul><li>The need might be something like:</li><li>I’m bored and want a dopamine hit</li><li>I feel bad about myself and want to do something pleasurable to take my mind off it</li><li>I feel awkward in social situations and need a distraction</li><li>I’m stressed and need a coping mechanism</li></ul>But if you just stop doing the compulsive habit, you have removed your coping mechanism without finding another way to meet your need.

Why We Have Compulsive Habits

We’re usually pretty judgmental about our compulsive habits. It’s a part of ourselves that we hate or a confirmation that we’re somehow bad or inadequate.This kind of harsh judgment is a defense mechanism meant to help us get better. Beating ourselves up only makes us crave our compulsive coping mechanisms because now we feel bad about ourselves and are stressed out. Compassion is a healthy coping mechanism for stress, give it a try.

Remove Judgment, Add Compassion

<ul><li>Ask yourself if you really want to commit yourself fully to changing a habit. Sleep on it, and ask yourself again, before you half commit.It will come with difficulty, falling on your face, and a new way of seeing yourself. Is this something you want?</li><li>If the answer is absolute yes … then commit yourself fully. </li><li>Tell others about your commitment and ask them to hold you accountable. Promise to report to them every day or every week. Be as committed to this as you’ve been to anything in your life — your marriage, your kids, your job, your best friend.</li></ul>

Persistent, Patient Commitment

Change your environment, so that you aren’t likely to do the old habit. Ask people who live and work with you to hold you accountable. Making it hard to do the old compulsive habit is called “Creating a Moat.” Don’t let your future self, at a moment of weakness, have an easy time of falling back into the old habit. Make it easier to stick to the new habit, even if it’s not especially easy.

Change Your Environment

When we seek to change a habit that we think is embarrassing, we usually try to do it in private, so no one can see our shame. This is a mistake. Doing it alone is very, very hard, and it also reinforces the idea that we are doing something shameful, and that we should be doing this on our own. It’s stronger to do it with the help of others. Using other people’s support is just a more robust approach.

Don’t Do It Alone

When the compulsion to do the old habit happens, if you’re not aware of the urge, you’re likely to obey it without questioning it. It’s an imperative, without awareness.The key is to develop awareness of the urge so that you can notice it and not think of it as an imperative, but rather just a sensation in the body, and perhaps a thought (“Just one time is OK!”). With this kind of awareness, you now have a choice, and can question whether this is what you really want.

Practice Awareness & the Powerful Pause

Curbing a Compulsive Habit: A Primer

<ul><li>We struggle with habit change because we have unrealistic expectations of how things will turn out, how others should be, and how we should be.</li><li>When our expectations aren’t met, we feel disappointed, frustrated and sad.</li><li>When we turn from our Mind Movie and embrace reality, we overcome our inner resistance to habit change.</li></ul>

Key Insights

There’s a projector in our minds, and it’s constantly playing a movie about how we’d like things to be, our ideals about the world, our expectations of how things will turn out, how others should be, [and] how we should be.The Mind Movie is what stands in our way of making habit changes. It tells us that changing a habit should be easy and fun, but the reality is that we must wander outside our comfort zone.The Childish Mind is the part of our mind that complains about how things are, that fears discomfort, that just wants pleasure and comfort, that doesn’t want things to be difficult.

The Movie Inside Our Minds

<ul><li>Gratitude is a great antidote to resistance that we can practice each day, including when our Childish Mind eventually starts to rebel against doing the habit.</li><li> Take mistakes in stride, and take the long view that what really matters is not whether you mess up for a day or two, but what you do over weeks and months and years.</li></ul>

Taming The Childish Mind

<ul><li>Consider writing a short journal entry about your reflections, to solidify your learning.</li><li>Treat habit formation as a learning process, as a way to learn about yourself, your mind, mindfulness, resistance and more.</li><li>Gradually the habit becomes your new normal and you can expand a bit more, pushing your comfort zone a little at a time”.</li></ul>Question: “What does the resistance feel like? Is there a way to accept the thing you’re resisting, accept the discomfort, relax into it, and find gratitude for it? What is good about the discomfort?”

Understanding How Habits Are Formed

A key habit skill is learning to flow around the disruptions and just keep going.Notice feelings of discomfort and uncertainty, and stay with them. Get to know them. Get intimate with these feelings.When we experience groundlessness — a feeling of not being anchored, not certain, things not going our way, a feeling of loss — our minds don’t normally like it.One of the most difficult tasks we can give to our Childish Mind is letting go of what it really wants, and accepting life as it is, seeing that it’s already enough

Going With The Flow

<ul><li>A good practice is to not attach to the outcome. Have a good intention for the habit, but don’t worry too much about how it will turn out because you can’t control that”.</li><li> Tell yourself that when you slip and fall, it’s just another lesson that will teach you to be better at change.</li><li>Mistakes means you’re pushing into new ground and exploring something interesting — if you weren’t, you wouldn’t make mistakes.</li><li>See every mistake as an opportunity to learn, a thing that you can get better at, the feedback that’s so crucial for improvement.</li></ul>

Overcoming The Burden Of Making Mistakes

<ul><li>Form new, positive habits at least three times before taking on a quit”.</li><li>The first thing you need to do before you attempt to quit a habit is track it for three days and try to write down every trigger for the habit.</li><li>Each bad habit meets some kind of need, or you wouldn’t be doing the habit.</li><li>For each trigger and need, write down a positive replacement habit that will meet the same need.</li></ul>

Positive Habits Vs Bad Habits

Watch an urge gently, without judgment or wishing the feeling weren’t there. Treat it like a friend, kindly. And see that this feeling is impermanent, just arises but will pass, like a cloud. This is the whole meditation: just watch with curiosity and kindness, not attaching to the feeling or needing to act on it.Tell yourself you can do this, you’re strong, you got this. And be realistic in that things won’t go as planned, but those are learning opportunities. In the long run, you’re going to make it, because you’re worth it.

Handling The Urge

The real question isn’t whether you’ll mess up, but what you’ll do if you do mess up

<ul><li>Pick one new, easy habit you can do once a day</li><li>Don’t start right away</li><li>Create a vow</li><li>Create a space</li><li>Set a trigger & a reminder</li><li>Start with a Minimum Viable Habit</li><li>Focus on enjoying the habit</li><li>Practice mindfulness</li><li>Watch your Mind Movie</li><li>Reflect and journal</li><li>A daily practice</li><li>Increase gradually</li></ul>

How to Create a New Habit

<ul><li>Don’t attempt a quit until several successful new habit changes</li><li>Track your habit</li><li>List your triggers</li><li>List your needs</li><li>Come up with replacement habits</li><li>Use techniques you’ve learned</li><li>Gradual change vs. cold turkey</li><li>Learn to recognize urges as they arise</li><li>Form the right mindset</li><li>When you fail, get back on track and don’t let it derail you</li></ul>

How to Quit a Bad Habit

A guide to overcoming the mind's resistance to change, with a method for forming habits, increasing mindfulness, and dealing with life struggles.

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Mindfulness

Leo Babauta

Essential Zen Habits

“It's only work if you would rather be doing something else.Find a way to carve a career out of what you already want to do.”

“Build small habits. Make big plans.1) Keep your daily actions small. Strive to get 1% better every day.2) Keep your daily mindset big. Think about how you can play a bigger game.Start small, but never dream small.”

“Great work resists compression.Great explanations are short, but potent.Great software delivers the same outcome in fewer clicks.Great manufacturing processes create products in less time and with less waste.The Shape of genius is simplicity "

“A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.”

“If I could talk to myself twenty years ago, I would tell myself to focus on my strengths, and not on my weaknesses; on the things I could do and not the things I couldn’t do; to strive to excel and hone those skills to the point of excellence. That this was the best strategy to secure my future. I would say to myself that the only real obstacles you have are those you create for yourself.”

Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves and criticize our mistakes to an unhelpful degree. Sometimes we are too easy on ourselves and let excuses run our lives. Which way are you leaning right now? How can you pull yourself back to center?

1 QUESTION FOR YOU

3-2-1: Small habits with big plans, the shape of genius, and advice to a younger self

“Before you try to increase your willpower, try to decrease the friction in your environment.”

“Your habits are how you embody a particular identity.When you make your bed, you embody the identity of someone who is clean and organized. When you study, you embody the identity of someone who is studious.What identity are you embodying today? Who are your habits helping you become?”

“Most big, deeply satisfying accomplishments in life take at least five years to achieve. This can include building a business, cultivating a loving relationship, writing a book, getting in the best shape of your life, raising a family, and more.Five years is a long time. It is much slower than most of us would like. If you accept the reality of slow progress, you have every reason to take action today. If you resist the reality of slow progress, five years from now you'll simply be five years older and still looking for a shortcut.”

“If you care too much about being praised, in the end you will not accomplish anything serious.Let the judgments of others be the consequence of your deeds, not their purpose.”

“You have to make your own happiness, wherever you are. Your job isn’t going to make you happy, your spouse isn’t going to make you happy, the weather isn’t going to make you happy…You have to decide what you want, and you have to find that way of doing it, whether or not the outside circumstances are going to participate in your success…You have to be able to create your own happiness, period. And if you can’t, then you need to find a good shrink who can help you figure out what it’s going to take.”

How, specifically, do you want your life to be better at this time next year?

3-2-1: Happiness, the opinions of others, and accepting the reality of slow progress

“If an idea is true, criticism will not destroy it, but strengthen it.”

“You need focus to become exceptional at anything.Massive amounts of time and energy are wasted optimizing things that should be left undone.You have to be great at saying no.”

“A gift you can give yourself right now:Stop what you're doing. Close your eyes.For the next 60 seconds, just breathe.”

“Quality of life is having the freedom to make choices that are not fear based. Whether it’s the ability to choose the kinds of projects I want to take on and can learn from, or the ability to take a month off to travel. Freedom to choose is the ultimate luxury.”

“One of my guiding principles is don’t do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you do the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one’s work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be.”

What is an area you'd like to improve over the next decade? How are you working toward that outcome today? Think long-term. Act short-term.

3-2-1: The effect of criticism, a gift you can give yourself, and the ultimate luxury

“In the long-run, prioritization beats efficiency.”

“When researching strategies, emphasize patterns over stories. One person succeeding means nothing. 100 people succeeding is a signal.When explaining strategies, emphasize stories over patterns. People forget numbers and charts. Everyone remembers a great story.”

“When determining the size or complexity of a new habit ask yourself, “What can I stick to—even on my worst day?”Start there. Master the art of showing up. Then advance.”

“Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.”

“Reading is migratory, an act of transport, from one life to another, one mind to another. Just like geographic travel, reading involves estrangement that comes with the process of dislocating from a familiar context. I gather energy from this kind of movement, this estranging and unsettling, and I welcome it precisely because it’s conducive to examination, interrogation, reordering. Travel, imaginative or physical, can sharpen perception and force a measuring of distance and difference.”

Before you ask, “What should I do today?” Ask yourself, “What should I remove today?” Create the space you need to succeed.

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3-2-1: Prioritization, making the most of what you have, and reading as a form of travel

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