THOMAS MONSON

• Stop consuming refined sugar. It is worse for our brains than it is for our waistlines.
• Fast from all food and caloric beverages 24 hours once per week.
• Go to bed early and rise early. Make sure you get 7+ hours of sleep each night.
• Consume 30 grams of protein within the first 30 minutes of waking up.
• Drink 64–100 ounces of water per day.
  

When setting goals, your locus of control should target what you can control.

Do what is right, let the consequence follow.

Most of the possessions you own, you don’t use. Most of the clothes in your closet, you don’t wear. Get rid of them.

It will boost your motivation and give you clarity and welcome a new form of energy into your life. You can use that energy in more useful and productive ways.

• Make your bed first thing in the morning.
• Write in your journal for 5 minutes per day.
• Make a bucket list and actively knock items off.
• Fast from the internet 24 hours once per week.
• Stop consuming the news or reading the newspaper.
•  Check your email and social media at least 60–90 minutes after you wake up.

Define what wealth and happiness mean to you, in your own terms. 

If we don’t, society will for us — and we will always fall short. We’ll always be left wanting. We’ll always be stuck comparing ourselves and competing with other people.

Taking the time to help other people is one of the greatest joys in life. Helping others opens you up to new sides of yourself.

It helps you connect deeper with those you help and humanity in general.

But you don’t have to constantly be battling your fears. You only need to be courageous for 20 seconds at a time.

If you courageously confront fear for 20 seconds every single day, before you know it, you’ll be in a different socio-economic and social situation.

Ordinary people seek entertainment. Extraordinary people seek education and learning.

Taking even 15–30 minutes every day (especially during the morning) to read uplifting and instructive information changes you. It puts you in the zone to perform at your highest.

Have no more than 3 items on your to-do list each day.

Instead of doing a million things poorly, the goal becomes to do a few things incredibly — or better yet, to do one thing better than anyone else in the world.