The Habit That Guarantees Failure

“Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.”
- Nathaniel Emmons

Anywhere from 80 to 95% of our actions every day are controlled or partially based on our habits.   Are your habits helping you…or hurting you?

You may already know this – you brush your teeth (or don’t!) out of habit, you likely react in similar ways to various situations based on your habits – and according to a cell phone tracking study I read, people consistently even go to the same locations at the same times week after week.

But which habits are helping you, and which are hurting you?

We all have a mixture of positive and negative habits – but there’s one habit that absolutely guarantees you will fail.

It has a 100% failure rate – if you fall victim this habit today, I guarantee you that you will fail today.

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Today Is All You Have

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs

After hearing about Steve Jobs passing, I dug through my journals looking for the entry I wrote when I watched Steve Jobs 2005 commencement speech for the first time.

Here is part of what I wrote.

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Procrastination Kills

Procrastination kills.

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The Universe Is Apathetic

The universe is apathetic.

It does not care if your life is easy, or difficult. It does not care whether you choose to persist, or choose to give up on your dreams.

It will not fight you or keep you down.

It will not help you and pick you up.

Whether you fail or succeed, the sun will set, the sun will rise, and the universe will remain unconcerned.  

However, The Fact Is….

You were born with gifts unavailable to anyone else.

You have the power to do things that nobody else can do, because nobody else possesses your rare combination of abilities – and nobody else will come across the same opportunities you will.

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Stop Waiting For Your Life To Begin

“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question: Do you know how much time the average adult spends waiting every day?  

Answer: A quick Google search (what I would say in contemporary times now qualifies as “research”) reveals the answer as 45 to 62 minutes waiting everyday.

But you know what? The “average” doesn’t matter. What does matter is how much time you spend waiting – and the only way to get that answer is to employ the powerful tool of a time log.

That’s small potatoes though compared to what we’re going to talk about today. So grab your swimming cap and hold your nose – because we’re going in deep.

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The Slam Poet’s Productivity Technique That Will Change Your Life

For about 5 seconds, there is total silence, as we absorb the words, meaning and emotion and soak in the experience…

Then the entire theater breaks out in thunderous applause and yelling as I leap out of my seat slapping my palms together high above my head.

The poet takes a bow and drifts stage left while artists paint scenes from Hawaii behind her, and the resident DJ turns up the music.

Kealoha, a nationally ranked slam poet himself, is the emcee.  He jumps on stage and hugs her before taking the microphone from her hands.

Brushing his long hair from his eyes, Kealoha steps into the spotlight and calls out to the audience.

“That was Bridget Gray everyone,” Kealoha’s voice rings out , “make some nooo-oooise.”

The pulsing crowd goes wild again, filling the whole room with energy that the poets feed off of.

“Keep the love going, coming on stage we have Dar’ron – and waiting in the wings is Jess Kroll.  Jess Kroll, you are up next.  Dar’ron, coming to the stage.”

And just like that, it was Dar’ron’s turn.

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