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Self-signaling
Your actions provide a signal to you of the type of person you are.
Your actions demonstrate what you really believe: If you wake up early and go running, you’ll think to yourself, I’m the kind of person that wakes up early and goes running.
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Every choice is very costly
Saying yes isn’t free. Every choice has embedded an opportunity cost.
When you say yes to anything, you say no to almost everything else.
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Past, present, and future identities
- Your present identity is based on what you said yes to yesterday, a product of your previous decisions.
- Your future identity is what you say yes to today, a product of your current decisions.
- Your past identity is what you’ll say yes to tomorrow. N...
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The pursuit of less
Most things should swiftly be said no to. The most successful people say no to almost everything.
Most people say yes to minor things. Hence, most people live minor, not major lives.
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Lay out your gear
If you have to not only wake up early but get a bunch of gear together while half-awake, you might just want to go back into bed.
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Light sets your circadian rhythms —the times you naturally want to wake up and go to sleep. Exposing yourself to bright light early in the day shifts your rhythms earlier, without you having to try to go to sleep earlier.
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