Improvement pill here some of you probably already know that I used to run
a sales office back in a day it was a position that I worked my butt off
obtaining and I really thought once I got to manage my own office that my
workload would decrease that I would be making way more money and that I would
be happier but I was dead wrong because after being handed the office I found
myself putting in almost a hundred hours of work every single week a significant
increase from the 80 hours I was used to beforehand which was already quite a lot
and it was this intense workload that caused me to wake up one day in bed with
the decision suggest not show up instead I decided to turn off all the
notifications on my phone and go back to sleep I'm not proud of it at all
but that's essentially how I quit by getting burnt sow and giving up over the
course of the next couple of weeks I suffered from an intense lack of
motivation I had already come across the idea of building passive income streams
online a couple of months prior and decided that that was what I wanted but
for some reason I just couldn't motivate myself to get out of bed and actually
start working on building the business I went from being a guy who had the work
ethic of a machine to a guy who could barely get himself to shower let alone
put in the hours needed to build an online business I desperately needed to
figure out a way to motivate myself to do things and take action again so
here's what I decided to do I decided to stick to a part of my old morning
routine it was a simple routine wake up shower shave put on my suit grab my bag
and walk out the front door the only difference was that instead of heading
to my old office I decided to walk to the local Starbucks and worked there
instead and by simply doing this one thing I suddenly found myself motivated
to work again whenever I was all washed up and looking sharp with my suit on I
was filled with motivation and I was able to spend a good five to six hours
working in that Starbucks I did this every single day and by the end of the
year I had built a passive income stream making a little over $1,000 a month what
I had accidentally stumbled on here is what I like to call the Showtime trick
see there are certain things you can do certain routines or outfits you can put
on that will essentially trick you into entering a certain state of mind
almost like an actor putting on a costume before getting ready to perform
in front of the camera or an athlete do a special ritual before their game for
example LeBron James will throw some chalk dust up in the air before playing
ball Usain Bolt's will spend time talking to someone about things he likes
like cars and music before each race and Michael Jordan always wore his old the
University of North Carolina shorts underneath his Bulls uniform during his
games all of these unique rituals are essentially ways for us to trick our
mind into putting our game face on it's a way for us to tell our brain and body
hey it's show time it's time for us to act a certain way
and give it your all now I know some of you are probably thinking well
improvement bill that's nice and all but I don't have a weird ritual or outfit
that I can wear that will get me to act or feel a certain way this Showtime
trick of yours doesn't apply to me well the thing is none of us are born with
these rituals each and every single one of those athletes we just talked about
developed their own ritual over time you have to build an association in your
mind almost like how you would build the habit which quick little side note if
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like I said obtaining a rich flow for the Showtime drink can actually be very
simple all you need to do is purposely go out of your way to create a new
ritual and make sure that you do something special immediately after the
first 3 times let me give you an example back when I first started going on dates
I would get extremely nervous so I created a ritual in order to calm
my nerves down I would meditate and try to be as present as possible during the
entire 30 to 45 minute train or bus ride to the date spot and when I finally got
to my stop I would go out of my way to have 3 short but fun interactions with
some strangers around me for example sometimes I would crack a joke with the
bus driver give a high-five to a random person or give a compliment to someone
walking down the street something like hey nice jacket this helped me out a lot
because I knew that talking to strangers made me less nervous and also since
these interactions were almost always positive I would be in a good mood
before the date even started then after the rituals over I made sure that I was
as fun and present as possible during the date itself and after doing this
just three times it came a ritual that I would do before
every first date I started feeling less and less nervous each time because I
knew this ritual of mine would trick me into being more fun and present here's
another example I only recently started going to big networking events a couple
of years back and I did feel a bit nervous because I was going to be in a
room where almost everyone else was far more successful than I was it was
intimidating to say the least so I created a little ritual that I
still stick to this day I washed up and I suited up an hour before the event
started and then I blasted music in my hotel room while dancing in front of the
mirror I did this for about thirty minutes and then I made sure to go down
to the event and talk to as many people as possible I think the first time I
went to one of these networking events I must have spoken to at least a hundred
different people over the course of the three days I was there after doing this
ritual two more times and other networking events it's now become an
easy way for me to trick myself into being more talkative and outgoing if you
want to trick yourself into doing things all you have to do is create a ritual
make sure that you step outside of your comfort zone and try harder than normal
your first three times and just like that you will be able to answer a
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