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But I want to give a little bit of background over the last six to eight months. It's become
Painfully obvious to me how much my habits and my behaviour
impact my success and
I define success as
Feeling like I'm progressing towards my goals.
I kind of had the impression that I was putting myself in a bubble if you will
and by bad behaviour and habits
I don't mean the stuff that we all kind of think of immediately
as overtly destructive like smoking or drinking.
You know, I've fallen a little bit down that rabbit hole in the past,
But I'm talking about something a lot more subtle, a lot more insidious
the kind of stuff that flies under the radar.
I'm talking about being a little too glued to my phone or
Having kind of an irregular sleep schedule
or being a little too
superficial and surface-level in
conversations and interactions with people,
being a little too comfortable and complacent
That kind of thing all these things
became apparent to me all at once
Around last summer as I was wrapping up
the largest single project.
I had ever undertaken. It was a huge endeavour
I travelled to a bunch of countries
and when it was all over and the dust had settled
I realised you know
Where do I go from here?
Look, I'm 21 years old now. I'm not a child anymore
And I feel like in the past.
I've had my priorities a little bit out of whack
and chased the wrong kind of things
so I became crystal clear to me
that I wanted to get out of my own head and
To make a lot of big change in my life
You know to really re-examine everything
and in a sense and I'm being kind of dramatic here
So bear with me to reinvent myself,
I don't know if this is just my personality
but I hate that feeling of floating through life of
mental fog and of lack of clarity.
I realized that if I want to make big changes in my life
that I was going to need to break things down
in a way that is easy to understand and to
control and to influence and
that I realised was my habits.
Our habits and behaviour are
Literally the vehicle that takes us to
where we want to go.
You know, it's they are the building blocks of your success.
And if I were to break it down
to the simplest level possible.
It's about increasing the amount of good habits
in your life and
Decreasing the amount of bad habits in your life.
Anybody who can do that will see a big change.
That's my personal belief
Okay, so, how do I go about it?
Well,
I want to recommend a couple of books
that were written by people that are far more
Qualified to talk about this than I am,
but I wanted to first share a little bit of advice
Based on what has worked for me so far
and what I plan to do
So I think the first step is to very consciously decide
that you want a change in your life
I think that's step one and then step two is
Honing in on what that is
what it is that you want to change necessarily
so let's say I want to be a little bit more productive
and I've been doing research online
and I found that you know a
Lot of people talk about morning routines from there.
I would say
Absorb and surround yourself with
as much information as possible.
There's a lot that's the incredible thing about
the internet nowadays
There's so much out there.
What are people saying works for them?
What are people saying doesn't work for them?
Just thinking about it a lot absorbing
absorbing absorbing from there
I think it's really important to approach things in a way.
That is sustainable.
So that you can do this long-term
Developing a habit is kind of a delicate process.
You don't want to bite off
More than you can chew, burn out
or you know get worn out and give up.
I think a great example of that is how
I started to bullet journal.
I did my research.
I looked online at what people were doing
and I just started to
write things down started to
just use the journal as regularly as possible
and I wasn't so worried about
Perfectly organising all the information
and making it super clear
and when I flipped through my own bullet journal.
I can see my progress as
I went through of course in the beginning,
It was kind of messy and
I didn't quite know what I was doing
But over time through consistency and persistence
It got better and I developed systems
that I liked and
I continued to grow and evolve with the bullet journal
What mattered most in that instance wasn't that like,
you know?
I got it perfect on the first go
or I got it perfect from the beginning.
What mattered was that?
I was just building up the muscle and my
relationship to this habit, which has now become
Absolutely essential to me every morning
and every evening to kind of organise my thoughts
and help me continue to move forward
I think if you can approach a new habit something
that you want to incorporate into your life
as a fun challenge
That changes sort of the psychology of it
and I think that it can make it
almost fun to try and see if this new
Aspect of your life can be a part of you
I started using a habit tracker in my bullet journal
where I would mark down a dot
each day that I do a specific
Habit and I became a really fun and
cool way to visually see
my habits playing out throughout the month
and I want to mention that even
the habit tracker was a little bit messy and I made
some changes and you know,
it was my first attempt but
Already the new one that I've set up for myself is cleaner.
It's refined.
It's using what I learned from the previous one and it's
Improving on the system.
The point is that you're not going to completely change your life in one day.
It's a process and
It's something that can be enjoyable
and can be exciting and doesn't have
to be overwhelming or horrible.
Okay, so enough of my advice here
the books that I wanted to share
the first is called
'The Willpower Instinct'
How self-control works why it matters
and what you can do to get more of it
by Kelly McGonigal.
It's a wonderful book to understand the mechanics of willpower
and that information has really helped me
in my approach towards my habits and
understanding how I can kind of give myself
the best odds and
the other book is called
'When-The scientific secrets of perfect timing'
which Is
by Daniel H pink.
The book has a really unique look at things
because it's not so much focused on what
but rather when when you should do stuff
Based on our circadian rhythms
based on historic evidence
on a bunch of different studies
And so the information in that book -
really helped me in my approach towards my habits
So with all that said one of my main goals this year is to try and create
100 high-quality videos and
That might be really ambitious.
I like 100. It's a nice round number,
but I'm not so much focused on the result itself
But rather building up the systems and
the habits to get there
The point is not so much to you know,
hit that specific number. It's to get out of here
Get out of my head
and put myself out there a little bit more
I already have a lot of projects in motion
that make me excited to share
but I think what I want you to know is
That everything I have planned
this coming year is centered around this idea of
mental clarity and living better
it's just something that
I'm naturally gravitating towards and
something I really want to explore and I think
One of the cool things about this project
is that you know
If I can pull this off
anybody can there's nothing really special about me.
I'm not a guru. I'm not an expert
I'm just documenting the process and sharing what I learned
All right before I get too cliche,
although I think we're way past that point already.
Here's to an extraordinary 2019
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