“Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.”
- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“I can’t go to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
- Lewis Carrol, Alice in Wonderland
“I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
- Joseph Campbell
Most people need consistency more than they need intensity.
Intensity: -run a marathon -write a book in 30 days -silent meditation retreat
Consistency: -don’t miss a workout for 2 years -write every week -daily silence
Intensity makes a good story. Consistency makes progress.
Working on a problem reduces the fear of it.
It’s hard to fear a problem when you are making progress on it—even if progress is imperfect and slow.
Action relieves anxiety.
The longer the time frame for results, the less you need intensity and the more you need consistency.
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Entrepreneur’s mind. Athlete’s body. Artist’s soul.
This deep focus writing schedule:
M: 3 hours T: 3 hours W: 3 hours Th: 3 hours F: 3 hours
Is more hours than:
M: 0 hours T: 0 hours W: 0 hours Th: 7 hours F: 7 hours
The second requires two Herculean efforts, the first requires none. Consistency compiles to huge numbers.
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Do less. Stop dividing your attention.
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Do it right now. Once you have identified the essential, go fast. Maintain a bias toward action.
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Do it the right way. Acting quickly doesn’t mean acting carelessly. Get to work right away, but keep working on it until it’s right.
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” — Viktor Frankl