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How to Become Financially Fit: From (sub)Zero to Hero in 4 Steps
You've decided to invest in yourself daily, which includes working on your health, wealth, and wisdom. If you're new here, go back and review the overall goal of The First Habit, which is to create a daily practice of investing in yourself. It's time to make...
Finding the Right Work-Life Balance: Are You Working to Live Or Living To Work?
Making incremental progress on your financial life is part of a daily practice that I call The First Habit, which is a daily investment in your health, wealth, and wisdom. We've reviewed a morning routine that guarantees you get the most important things done--it's...
Money Can’t Buy Me Love (But It Can Buy Me Time)
Sometimes an equation is the best way to express an idea. For example, take Einstein's famous equation: It's arguably the most famous equation in the world. In a very elegant and concise way, it ties together three seemingly unrelated elements of nature--energy,...
Understanding Your Relationship With Money
The First Habit is a daily investment in yourself. When you invest daily in your health, wealth, and wisdom, you will see a remarkable return on investment over time. We've spent the last several weeks talking about the benefits of daily investment in health and...
When Willpower Is Not Enough – 7 Strategies To Build Strong Habits
A daily investment in yourself is The First Habit. If you take care of what's most important first, then the rest takes care of itself. Recall the three pillars that are the foundation of a good life: health (foundation), wealth (freedom to do), and wisdom...
High Intensity Interval Training: A Bonafide Fountain of Youth
Regular readers will recall that along with wealth and wisdom, health is one of the three pillars of a good life. How you feel is the foundation for all you do. When you feel good and have lots of energy, you are free to be awesome. A good fitness...
A Silver Bullet for Getting Fit
Silver bullets are great. They have magical powers. When nothing else works, you can count on a silver bullet to get it done. They get right to the heart. In my last post, I talked about how your body is a machine, and it has to be challenged. I talked about all...
Your Body is a Machine: Use It or Lose It!
For those of you playing at home, we have been through how investing in yourself is the First Habit. Getting up early is one supercharged way of paying yourself first. A solid morning routine that includes mastering your mind, exercising your body,...
Introduction to Meditation – Riding Herd on Your Monkey Mind
Introducing: Your "Monkey Mind" Monkeys are hard to control. They do the most unpredictable things. They will jump on your head. They will steal your hat. They will pull your pants down. Your mind is like a monkey, or so it goes in Buddhist philosophy. They...
How To Wake Up Early – Take the 30 Day Challenge
How to ditch your annoying alarm clock and harness the power of your natural circadian rhythms to wake up early. Kramer is right, you really do have an internal alarm clock! I will often wake 1 to 2 minutes before my alarm, and apparently this is not uncommon....