Every habit has a trigger.

Want to focus faster?

Get an hourglass (sand clock).

Turn it over.

Work for whatever the time it takes for all the sand to reach the other side.

Every habit has a trigger.

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Turning the hourglass is a simple way to trigger your focusing efforts.

In the book The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg, says that habits consists of three elements:

• A cue (trigger)
• A routine (sequenced actions)
• A reward (feel-good stuff that hijacks your brain into wanting to repeat your actions)

Turning the hourglass is the trigger.

But...

You don’t even need the hourglass.

You can use anything as your habit's trigger/cue.

Other cues:

• deep breaths
• starting a stopwatch
• blocking social media
• putting an instrumental song in a loop

Choose your trigger.

Get into a focused state.

Win!

Do it, because you can

Anything you constantly talk about grows in power.

Silence is the best revenge.

Every time you speak, you put a new vibration out into the world.

One that is either building the reality that you want, or a reality that you don't want. The rub is that you may not even know you're creating the bad reality....

"By knowing the Large, you know the Small; and from the Shallow, you reach the Deep." -Miyamoto Musashi

Focus on what you can control - the small things.

Dial in the BASICS and you are golden.

You don't have to wake up and be perfect

You just have to wake up willing to try

Put some effort in this morning

Hustle

Make it a good day

Most people will tell you to sell what’s in high demand now

I’ll tell you to build a brand around your personality, likes and curiosity

You constantly avoid pain & seek comfort

This is why no one will remember your name

If this hurts

It should

If you avoid pain long enough

It eventually finds you

Stop Avoiding

Start Embracing

Start your morning with Resistance Training

Train to resist the BS coming at you throughout the day

Start your day with sleeping in

Sleep on the opportunities the day has to offer

Your morning dictates the rest of your day

Start off Strong

Rich people take action.

Poor people make excuses.

If you think this sub-article is about money, you missed the lesson.

Fast Money = Sexy

Budgeting Money = Ugly

Fast Money = Short Lived

Budgeting Money = Thriving Business

Stop trying to be Sexy

Perform the Ugly with Excellence

If your not winning, your losing.

Plain and simple.

No sugar coated bullsh*t.

That’s how life goes.

If you’re wondering if your winning... your not.

The winners know.

The losers question.

Doing the right thing is something you will never regret.

While it may be easier to do the wrong thing, the warrior in you doesn’t take the easy way out.