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Be Accountable

Make your plan. Write it on paper.

Then review your progress every week. Calculate your metrics, track what you’ve done, down to the very last detail. Be brutally honest.

If you’re really ambitious, and want to see results more quickly, then track every hour. This hyper focus, tracking and reviewing will skyrocket you to the top and have you achieving your goals in no time.

(“Review” is the 6th step in my book, Achieve Anything)

Hold yourself truly accountable and your success will be nearly unfathomable.

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Read More Non-Fiction

Read more biographies, auto-biographies, history, and self-help. You can even read more religious, science and psychology books.

Start adding one every two months. Eight weeks to complete a book should be enough. You’ll learn so much about life, yourself and historical moments.

Fiction is fun but non-fiction can also be highly entertaining and very educational too.

Order a non-fiction book from the library today and get reading!

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Sacrifice For Your Ideal

Most people are only going to chase their dream up to the point where they are happy to sacrifice to attain it.

For most, if they have to sacrifice more than they are happy to, then they give up on their goal.

If it isn’t easy enough, most folks aren’t willing to put in more sacrifice to make it happen.

For example, you may want to lose 30 pounds but only if you don’t have to get more sleep, go to bed earlier, cut out most alcohol, evening meals/snacks, tasty foods and daily treats.

If that’s what you’ll have to do, many just go through the motions, don’t really track progress, make body type excuses and remain as heavy as they are.

They may try again later in the hopes they have developed better discipline or science has changed and they won’t have to make any of the above sacrifices to reach their goal.

Or they just go to the gym or to a personal trainer in hope that some activity 2-3x per week will make up for the excesses they won’t give up elsewhere.

This can go on for 3 years or even 20 years. It will continue until the desired outcomee or goal becomes more important than the sacrifices and true, consistent change required to make the goal or outcome become a reality.

So save yourself 20 years of not trying enough / trying and make the sacrifices required or realise your goal is a wish not must, and give up on it.

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Get Different Results

If you want different results or outcomes, you will need to do things differently from before.

Are you even aware of what will need to be done differently?

Are you even willing to do the things differently, every day, even when you don’t want to?

Discipline. Sacrifice. Resilience.

You can live a better life if you choose to put the work in. Otherwise, expect more of what you’ve had.

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Have You Written Out Your Wants?

Like a grocery list, you sit with pen and paper and look around and think about what it is you really would like.

Rather than jam and milk, you might think about a month in Peru in their summer, hiking the Inca trail, spending two weeks on a quiet beach on Zanzibar or walking part of the Great Wall of China.

You can write out the qualities of the perfect partner for you or the outline of the book you want to write. You might also note down the fitness level you would like to maintain in your 40s, 50s, and 60s.

It’s quite a powerful process to write these things out and bring them to life. You’ll feel better for the process. Then you can organise when and how you’ll do them. Then go and enjoy your dreams while you can.

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Raise Your Standards

Go test drive a car that is nicer than yours. Have a coffee in an opulent hotel restaurant. Find a great deal on the least expensive night of the year and stay in a nicer hotel than you usually would. Rent a slightly nicer rental car than normal.

Go shopping in more expensive stores during their sales. Pick one item you love, that is at an affordable price for you, and buy it.

As you slowly upgrade your experiences and surroundings, it will change the way you think, feel and experience or see the world.

Even if you don’t choose to upgrade permanently, due to budget or other considerations, treat yourself to it once a month or 4 times a year at least.

You’ll appreciate the differences.

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Patience

Time heals wounds but you have to be patient. People need time to process information so you need to have patience.

You can attract things into your life but you need to act now and yet still be patient.

It’s a great skill to master. Practice it every day.

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