Monthly Archive: October 2020

Double Your Productivity in 48 Hours Book Review

Double Your Productivity in 48 Hours Book Review

A month ago my mentor, Derek Doepker, shared a book with me: Double Your Productivity in 48 Hours by Jason Fladlien. Jason is Internet marketer and an insanely productive person. “Obsessed is the word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.” In comparison to Jason, I can definitely be called lazy. Traditionally, let’s start from […]

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The Magic of a Fresh Start

The Magic of a Fresh Start

By Leo Babauta One of the biggest obstacles to sticking with a habit change, a new system, a goal or long-term project … is that we get disrupted. Something interrupts our progress — we skip a workout day or two — and then some programming in our brains turns that into a message of how […]

Why Is It so Easy to Get Addicted to Things that Are Unhealthy but so Difficult to Get Hooked on Healthy Habits

Why Is It so Easy to Get Addicted to Things that Are Unhealthy but so Difficult to Get Hooked on Healthy Habits

The short answer is: those “unhealthy things” hack directly into our bodily reward system. Thus, we get an immediate reward (usually: pleasure) from doing them. We crave the pleasure, so the behavior gets reinforced. It easily becomes a habit. The long answer is more complicated. The reason why hacking directly into the reward system works […]

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Eighty Eighth Income Report – July 2020 ($3.885.06)

Eighty Eighth Income Report – July 2020 ($3.885.06)

Are you curious about a 3-month delay? I explained it in my first income report. The highlight of July was a couple of vacations… which my wife went to. After being imprisoned for a few months we all needed some separation for our mental health. So, she traveled to my sister in Germany, spent a […]

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Relax Into Structure in Your Day

Relax Into Structure in Your Day

By Leo Babauta There’s something in many of us that resists structure — we want the freedom of not having to do something, of being able to just relax. There’s something to that: freedom and going through our day feeling open and relaxed is really nice! Unfortunately, that’s not actually how things usually go for most […]