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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....
5 Morning Rituals For Success
Let's start with a quick review. You're now familiar with The First Habit, The One Habit to Rule Them All, which is to invest 90 minutes a day in yourself. You've thought about how life is short and you'll be dead soon, so you got busy and examined your current...
Make YOURSELF great again
No doubt we have just been through a painful selection process for the next President of the United States. Like watching a train wreck in slow motion, it was at once captivating and repelling. I for one was anxious for the process to conclude so we could all...
Hack Your Habits (Before They Hack You)
Your Computer Brain You've heard about computer hackers, right? These are guys that figure out how to get computers to do things they want (sometimes this is sneaky, but not always). Well, did you know that your brain is a lot like a computer, and habits are like...
The Early Morning Has Gold In Its Mouth
There is an old German proverb that I like: The Early Morning Has Gold In Its Mouth Think on that for a moment. What does that really mean? In my first post, One Habit to Rule Them All, I explained that by getting up early (i.e. at least an hour or more before you...
The Three Pillars of a Good Life
Since The First Habit is about a commitment to a daily investment in yourself, it makes sense to first consider why. If you don’t buy into the why, experience shows that the how and the what don’t matter much. Once in a while, it’s important to take a step back....
If You’re Reading This, You’ll Be Dead Soon
If you are still on the fence about committing to The First Habit (investing 90 minutes a day in yourself), consider the following: One day soon, you’ll be dead. Okay “soon” is relative. It could be tomorrow, or it could be in 70 years. Apparently this was a phrase...
If you’re doing it wrong, you’re doing it right
I don't know about you, but I often have this nagging feeling that I'm doing it wrong. What is "it?" Could be anything really. What I eat. How I exercise. How I do my work. How I write. How I'm growing my blog. My parenting style. How I invest. Then I realized that...