if you are not willing to risk the usual
you will have to settle for the ordinary
all right so a lot of 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 want to 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 want to 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 [ __ ]
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 of things that you do
give a [ __ ] 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 group yet in
life or you feel like maybe you don’t
have anything that you know that you
want to do that’s kind of 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
uh 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
going to say i’m going to get on that
damn bike
and i’m going to fall and i’m going to
scrape my knee but i’m going to learn a
heck of a lot faster
i’m going to 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
school work
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
b’s in high school
for me that was operating as efficiently
as possible
by getting b’s which was good enough and
not having to dedicate
all of my time to doing something i
don’t want to 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 often times 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 if you
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