- "If you are not willing to risk the usual,
you will have to settle for the ordinary."
All right, so a lotta people have heard different habits
out there for being successful,
like getting up at five o'clock in the morning
and grinding 24/7.
But what I wanna talk about today
are five weird or strange habits that I've had
that have allowed me to be successful.
All right, so the first habit I have for you guys here
that contributed to my success overall
is a really simple one,
but I honestly wanna challenge you
to start doing this right now.
And that is as soon as you wake up in the morning,
drink at least 16 ounces of water.
Now, I actually take this a step further.
I have one of those Nalgene bottles,
which is like 32 ounces,
and as soon as I get up, I make my bed,
I write down a couple of goals for the day,
and I drink 32 ounces of cold water.
And this is before I have my coffee and breakfast
or anything like that.
The reason for this is because three out of four Americans
out there are chronically dehydrated,
and when your brain is dehydrated,
you're just not thinking clearly.
A lot of people will go to coffee or pastries
or things like that in the morning for energy,
but I challenge you to instead, before you drink coffee,
before you go out there for those sweets,
drink some cold water, and see what this does
to your energy level and your mental clarity.
All right, so the second habit I have here for you guys
is consuming a low-information diet,
or as I like to say it, not really giving a (beep)
about most things.
I know that may sound harsh here,
but the truth is a lot of the stuff
that we worry about as humans
are things that we just have utterly zero control over.
So a while back, I made this decision
to really only care about the things
that I was able to change in life,
rather than things that are just going to invite stress
or confusion into my life,
where I really have no control of the given outcome.
And what you have to understand is that,
now more than ever, there are so many things out there
fighting for our attention,
whether it's your cell phone or apps,
social media, things like this, the news, radio.
There's so much noise out there
that you really can get sucked into this,
where all you're doing is just taking in
and consuming media and reading and listening to things,
and it can really just scatter your brain
and take up all of your time.
So what I am encouraging you to do
is pick a handful things that you do give a (beep) about,
and only consume information about these things.
And the other stuff, just let that be background noise.
And honestly, don't even think about it.
So the third habit here on my list,
kind of embarrassed of this one, guys,
to be honest with you,
but it helped me with becoming successful.
And that is the fact that for many years
when I was younger, I didn't really have any hobbies,
and I honestly didn't have like a booming social life
of any kind.
And what that allowed me to do
is when I finally had an idea of something
that I wanted to pursue, well, I had basically
all of my time and energy to dedicate to that one thing.
So if you have hobbies now, I'm not saying you have to like
get rid of your hobbies in order to be successful.
But if you are somebody out there
who like maybe hasn't found their groove yet in life,
or you feel like maybe you don't have anything
that you know that you wanna do,
that's kinda how I felt when I was,
you know, in my late teenage years.
But when I found YouTube and online business,
I was able to basically dedicate all of my free time
towards this venture.
I didn't see friends, I didn't go out there
and play basketball and things like that.
And I do have hobbies now because I have more free time,
and obviously they are important
to having a well-rounded life.
But if you don't have hobbies,
you really have a much larger basket of time
that you can dedicate towards something
if you are looking to be successful.
So the fourth habit I have here for you guys
is one that can be good and it can be bad,
and that is impulsive decision-making.
I am prone to this, I've been this way my entire life,
but the truth is when you make enough impulsive decisions,
at one point, this is going to pay off,
because it's kind of like,
thinking about in terms of risk and reward,
if you never really take any risks in life,
there's not a heck of a lot of upside there.
But if you take a lot of risks frequently,
there is a lot of upside as well as a lot of risk,
but you just have to be right that one time
to have a big payoff.
So basically, as soon as I had an idea,
I impulsively would jump into that idea,
and I would run with it and dedicate all of my brain fuel
to that, because I didn't have any hobbies,
didn't have a heck of a lot of friends,
and I wasn't filling my mind with useless information
and things to worry about that I had no control over.
And I think a lot of this comes down to analysis paralysis,
and this is something that I've never struggled with
because of that impulsive decision-making.
So let's say, for example, I was trying to ride a bicycle,
a lot of people would want to read books and watch videos
about riding a bicycle and analyze every detail possible,
whereas my type of personality, I'm just gonna say,
"I'm gonna get on that damn bike, and I'm gonna fall,
and I'm gonna scrape my knee,
but I'm gonna learn a heck of a lot faster,
I'm gonna fail faster,
and I'm just going to get to that desired outcome faster."
So impulsive decision-making can be good and it can be bad.
But I think for those of you
that have that analysis paralysis type mind,
I would go for the more screw it and do it type attitude,
rather than trying to have all the information first
before attempting something.
Because at the end of the day,
no matter how many books you read, videos you watch,
things like that, you're never going to go into something
being the master from the get go.
You're going to make mistakes,
and you're going to fail no matter what.
So why not fail faster and basically not waste
all that time trying to avoid failure?
So the fifth and final habit I have for you guys
is one that my mom was not necessarily a fan of
when I was younger,
and that is the fact that I was always the type of person
that was looking to find the shortcuts.
And I'm not saying that in terms of doing things
in a poor way and like skipping steps,
I'm talking about the standpoint of doing things
as efficiently as possible.
One example of this was my schoolwork.
I was always a low B student in high school,
and I think my mom knew
that I could have been an A student,
but in my mind, I just didn't see any value in doing that.
So rather than spending hours every night
doing homework and studying,
I basically never studied, barely did my homework,
and I could still manage to get Bs in high school.
For me, that was operating as efficiently as possible
by getting Bs, which was good enough,
and not having to dedicate all of my time
to doing something I don't wanna do,
which was doing homework and studying for tests.
So now I have applied that same school of thought
to my businesses and things like that.
where I'm always looking to operate
as efficiently as possible,
and essentially get the largest return on investment
for the least amount of effort.
And I think if you're somebody who is able to look
at things in this school of thought,
it oftentimes can and will lead to success.
So anyways, guys, that's gonna wrap up this video.
Those are five weird habits that I've seen work for me
and, honestly, for other people,
when it comes to being successful.
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