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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
Designate Specific, Separate Places For Work and Play
“Work hard, play hard” is a good mantra to live by but it needs some adjusting for this day and age. We need to add the idea that we must do each in a different place if we want to be the most efficient.
When you intentionally designate one space for work and one for play, you optimize your body’s ability to work hard and recover. Set aside a room as your office where you only work, and another for relaxation, where you only spend time relaxing.
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Eliminate Stuff That Requires Willpower To Resist
When designing your environment for success, take this no-nonsense attitude into your efforts.
Start by clearing up your phone from distractions. Get rid of the time-waster apps that are your go-to’s when you’re tired or bored from working.
If you’re trying to eat healthier and lose ...
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Intentionally Design Your Environment
If we can intentionally design our environment, we’ll make improving ourselves easy.
The two types of evolution:
- Natural Evolution, which is where organisms evolve based on their situations.
- Domesticated Evolution, that involves controll...
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The Premise
Getting enough self-discipline to get stuff done is tough. What if there was a way you could become ultra-productive and reach your dreams without having to just push through in misery?
Here is how:
- Intentionally design your environment for success instead of worrying about will...
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Success isn’t that difficult; it merely involves taking twenty steps in a singular direction. Most people take one step in twenty directions.
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Schedule Time for Work - And Goofing of
- If you schedule your work ahead of time—every week or day or whatever works best for you—you gain more control of the attention you’re giving to work.
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Make Deep Work a Habit
- Where: identify a location used only for depth, such as a conference room or a quiet library
- How Long: set a specific time frame for each Deep Work session.
- How: your ritual needs rules and processes to keep your efforts structured.
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