Day 7/28

When a new year start all people want to change their lives. A new year it’s kind of a blank page and you can write whatever you want. You can become a new person. So each year you decide to:

1 — Wake up at 4 AM every day like someone successful you know

2 — Get fit like Rambo. You even subscribe to a gym.

3 — Start a diet. From now on you just eat healthily. No more sugar! No more fast food.

And on first day’s you go really strong. But after couple days you feel tired and when you wake up you decide to snooze.

“You know what ? 4 AM it’s actually too early… there is no reason to wake up so early I’m sure that plenty of successful people wake up at 6 AM … ok maybe at 8 AM it’s ok. “

So slowly you start to giving up on each one of that objective you had.

“Today is raining so hard… I don’t go to gym”

“Oh god, I forget to go to super market … it’s ok… cheat day I will order a pizza.”

Then you back to your old normal. Even if you know that all that changes would benefit your life, why you give up ?? WHY????

Well because you don’t even know how to walk and you want to run a marathon.

Patience is the key to success!!

If you really want to change something in your life you can’t go so hardcore and decide to become world class in 3 or for areas.

And think about this …

Motivation is bullshit.

Just work when you have it. If you don’t want to rely on motivation you need to create an habit then you will be much easier to do then to not to do. The trick is to start ridiculously small. I will give you few examples that look stupid but actually will let you create habits. And after you create couple habits you will have more discipline and you can keep improving.

If you want to change your diet. Do this:

Instead of change, all your diet start by drinking water. Yes, 2L of water per day. (most people don’t even drink a glass of water).

Keep doing this for 2 weeks. You eat whatever you eat before but now you drink water, and each day you finish drinking that water you fill the happiness of accomplishing your goal.

Print a calendar and make a big X each day you achieve your goal. After 2 weeks give up on sugar. Yes, my friend sugar. Now you drink water and you don’t eat sugar. After 2 more weeks (I’m sure that you already you feel the difference on your body) maybe it’s time to change your breakfast, and you can go improving slowly.

Now let’s imagine you want to get fit.

First 2 weeks just walk. Yes, walk 5 min then next day 10 then keep walking 20 to 30 minutes per day. After 2 weeks, if you want you can start to run 5 minutes and walk 25. Then 10 walk 20. For 2 more weeks. 4 Weeks passed and now you can walk and run. Now don’t give up on running but add some pushups. Start with 20 per day. 2 Weeks then raise to 40. You will slowly improve and start to create a schedule.

But the most important part is that you are creating habits. And habits will last.

My Day

What an amazing day :D insane productivity and i feel super sharp. I believe it’s related with walk. Make me sleep better and give more energy and focus.

✔ Wake at 6AM

✔ Walk 7KM

✔ 9h Hours of productivity (8h of them programming)