J M's List: Steve Pavlini

• Once you’ve mastered a week at one level, take it up a notch the next week. And continue with this progressive training until you’ve reached your goal.
• If you succeed (or if you feel that would be too easy), then increase the challenge (i.e. the resistance).
• What duration would allow you to successfully do 5 reps (i.e. a whole week)?
• Let’s consider an example.
• Don’t compare yourself to other people.

  • Dat is denk ik voor mij erg belangrijk!<br>
• The more disciplined you become, the easier life gets. Challenges that were once impossible for you will eventually seem like child’s play. As you get stronger, the same weights will seem lighter and lighter.
• It’s a mistake to try to push yourself too hard when trying to build self-discipline.
• if you fail to challenge yourself in life, you won’t gain any more self-discipline.
• Similarly, the basic method to build self-discipline is to tackle challenges that you can successfully accomplish but which are near your limit.
• This means lifting weights that are close to your limit.
• Just as it takes muscle to build muscle, it takes self-discipline to build self-discipline.
• My philosophy of how to build self-discipline is best explained by an analogy. Self-discipline is like a muscle. The more you train it, the stronger you become. The less you train it, the weaker you become.
• Self-discipline is the ability to get yourself to take action regardless of your emotional state.
• The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance, Willpower, Hard Work, Industry, and Persistence. > If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym “A WHIP”

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• I consider this to be one my most productive habits.
• Beating yourself up about your bad wake-up habits will not work — in fact, you’ll just condition these mental beatings as part of the very routine you’re trying to change. 
• Any behavior pattern you experience when your alarm goes off will become self-reinforcing if you repeat it enough times.
• You can also practice mentally if you’re good at visualizing.  Mental practice is faster, but I think it’s best to run through the whole thing physically.
• That’s right — practice. >  But don’t do it in the morning.  Do it during the day when you’re wide awake.
• Now how do you do this?  The same way you learned any other repeatable skill.  You practice until it becomes rote.  Eventually your subconscious will take over and run the script on autopilot.
• The solution is to delegate the problem.  Turn the whole thing over to your subconscious mind.  Cut your conscious mind out of the loop.
• conundrum

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• You can’t really trust yourself… nor should you.
• It would actually be harder for me not to get up when my alarm goes off.
• I can’t say it requires any self-discipline to do this every morning because it’s a totally conditioned response.

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• Toastmasters

  • Toastmasters International has grown to become a world leader in helping people become more competent and comfortable in front of an audience. <br>
• Basically it comes down to taking on little challenges, conquering them, and gradually progressing to bigger ones. It’s like progressive weight training.
• motivation is short lived and may only last a few days. Discipline is like a muscle. The more you build it, the more you can rely on it.
• If you have enough self-discipline, you’ll get out of bed no matter what.
• how to develop the habit of arising early. So the advice is geared towards creating the habit.
• Ask yourself, “If I were to go to bed now, how quickly could I fall asleep?” If you think it would take more than 15 minutes to fall asleep, I say go ahead and stay up.
• The onset of sleepiness I’m referring to is when your brain starts releasing hormones to knock you out.
• instalanche

  • ook: slashdot effect<br>
• benign

  • harmless<br><br>

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• When my alarm goes off every morning, I turn it off, stretch for a couple seconds, and sit up. I don’t think about it. I’ve learned that the longer it takes me to get up, the more likely I am to try to sleep in.
• The solution was to go to bed when I’m sleepy (and only when I’m sleepy) and get up with an alarm clock at a fixed time (7 days per week).
• The optimal solution for me has been to combine both approaches.
• Both of them are wrong if you care about productivity.
• One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same times every day
• The second school says you should listen to your body’s needs and go to bed when you’re tired and get up when you naturally wake up. This approach is rooted in biology.
• two main schools of thought about sleep patterns
• I set out to become > >   a  habitua >l > > early riser
• But with the right strategy, it’s relatively easy
• high correlation between success and rising early
• It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
   - Aristotle

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• The goal is to help you achieve outstanding effectiveness while maintaining internal balance, where your thoughts, feelings, actions, and skills are all working together to create the life you truly desire.

  • Ik hoop dat dit in mijn leven gaat gebeuren! <br><br>

• Ik hoop dat dat gaat lukken  
  
  - J M on 2008-02-13