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If you cling to the past and keep using it as an excuse for not moving on with your life, then yes, your future will be very similar to your past. GIVE up the past and allow yourself to be present and engage with day to day life ALONG with having a clear vision of what you want your future to look like; then the future will look nothing like your past. It's your responsibility for better or worse. You have the power to decide. keypoint routines11 p.6

"Because what you need to transform your life is not more information." keyphrase keypoint quote

sidenote keypoint Practice fixing routines built into your mind. Example - fighting off the urge to complain.

When you are in motion, it's far easier to make positive changes in direction. It's like steering a car: if the car is siting still, moving the wheel is hard work, but when it's moving, turning is easy. It's easy because you're already in the flow. routines9 p.207 keypoint

keypoint It isn't that people who have greater success, more money, and better marriages are happier as a results of those things, the research is very clear on this; the greater states of happiness precede all these outcomes. p.98 routines9

You have to experience the benefits of a routine before you can convince yourself to stick with it. Catch 22 being that you can't experience the benefits without actually sticking with a routine. keypoint {good way to open a blog post}

One must understand and believe deep down in the power of "the slight edge" (daily declines, routines) in order to stick with them. keypoint

Correct the thoughts you have and the words you speak to reflect where you want to be. routines11 p.39 keypoint

Will Power is Vastly Overrated. For most people, will power ends up looking and feeling like some sort of grim self-tyranny propped up by an arbitrary, artificial reward and punishment system. There is a natural tendency to resist an applied force. Willpower will take you only so far before you feel yourself rebelling. keypoint p.63 routines9

Avoid stating that you're changing forever, ex. "From now on I'm always going to stick to my routine all the time, forever, and never mess up." That is overwhelming, especially if you're just getting started. keypoint

"Guilt is giving ourselves permission to keep on doing what we are doing." routines6 p.184 - when you fee bad about not hitting your routine, you're giving yourself permission to continue not accomplishing your routine. if you can't stick to a routine, maybe it shouldn't be a routine.? keypoint

We are all aware of the insidious and destructive power bad habits can have in our lives, even if we're not quite as aware of our own as others are. A lot is written about the power of good and bad habits, but we tend to overlook the enormous power of positive, intentional habits. keypoint p.217 routines9

------ CHAPTER: Why it can be difficult to stick to a routine. Or why you think it's difficult. keypoint The problem is, it's just as easy NOT to stick to a routine than it is to stick to one. It's 0% harder or easier.

HOW REAL SUCCESS IS BUILT: By the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done. quote keypoint keyphrase routines9 p.57

Once a day for a week is better than seven times in one day, once a week: the daily rhythm of the thing starts to change you. It becomes part of your routine, and as it does, it becomes part of who you are. keypoint keyphrase You're routine is part of who you are, a large part.

"The little things" that will make you successful in life, that will secure your health, happineness, fulfillment, dreams, are simple, subtle, mundane things that nobody will see, nobody will applaud, nobody will ever notice. They are those things that, at the time you do them, often feel like they make absolutely no difference. keypoint

Become an Imperfectionist // Many of us have the mindset of "either I'm going to do it perfectly or I'm going to wait until I have the time and energy and skill and everything else to do it perfectly. "If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing poorly." - GK Chesterton quote - if we only do the things that we could do perfectly, we wouldn't do much. keypoint routines6 p.191

THE DEFAULT PHILOSOPHY: "What I do right now doesn't really matter." routines9 quote keypoint

insight keypoint - Success always stems from small things, but you have to start with something. Success cannot be conjured up out of thin air. routines9 p.128

Example: reading 10 pages today of a good book aimed at improving your life, your life will not change. If you don't read 10 pages today of a good book today, your life will not fall apart. HOWEVER: Doing this every day, for a year, you would have read 3650 pages - equivalent of one or two dozen books of life transforming material. Would your life have changed? Absolutely, no question. keypoint p.57 routines9

Steady = remarkable power of momentum. A body at rest tends to stay at rest, body in motion tends to remain in motion. That's why activity is so important. Once you're in motion, it's easy to keep on keeping on. Once you stop, it's hard to change from stop to go. keypoint routines9 p.206

insight keypoint - View all the sources that brought you to this point {God, parents, teachers, childhood, circumstances, etc} with gratitude and appreciation without blame. Evaluate your view of yourself as the cause for what comes next in your life.

Part of the resistance within us is involved in accepting our own limitations, at this particular moment, given the amount of time, energy, etc available to me, this is the best that I personally can do. keypoint

keypoint If routines are so easy to do, and so valuable, why don't we do them? routines9

Making the choice to HAVE a choice is 99% of the battle. keypoint

Jim Rohn: The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they're aslo just as easy not to do. keypoint keyphrase ex. It's easy to save a few bucks a day, but it's just as easy not to. p.53 routines9 -

We cling to the past because the past gives us a sense of identity; it makes us who we are, or at least that's what we think. keypoint We haven't yet learned how to be present and engaged in our day to day lives.

sidenote - track the simple improvements you make every day to the "systems" and "organizations" in your life. Ex. if you're improving a funnel, track the changes you create / add / modify / optimize every day; based on feedback from your own internal system. What are you doing better in that process? Track it. keypoint

keypoint "the slight edge" - routines - dailies - are boring in the short term, incredibly exciting in the long term. Making the right choices is not dramatic. If making the right choices were a dmaatic thing, you'd get immediate feedback. That doesn't happen: there is no immediate feedback. routines9 p.67

keypoint Little things like that seem insignificant in the doing, yet when compounded over tie yield very big results. "simple daily disciplines".

Most tend to see larger or different problems as negative, and it infects their lives with negativity. You can gauge the limitations of a person's life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person's life has by the size of the problems he or she solves. routines9 p.164 keypoint keyphrase

acknowledge the reality that "getting things done before the deadline actually gives you more control" routines6 p.183 re; routines - sticking to a routine actually gives our mind more freedom for our minds to be creative since we have more capacity for non routine tasks. keypoint

Getting on the path and staying on it requires faith in the process. keypoint p.72 routines9