Lead engineer. Distilling 100+ personal development books and years of leading projects into one simple system for engineering your life.

Joined March 2021
Your brain rewires through doing, not reading. Replaying the same worry all day is training. You're building a skill for pain. Stop the loop mid-sentence. Say the better thought once. Take one tiny action. Repetition works either way. Choose what you repeat.
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Michael G. retweeted
The longer you wait to start the task, the more it grows in your head. The sooner you start the task, the sooner it will be finished. Do the work as fast as possible. Enjoy results and free mind.
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The longer you wait to start the task, the more it grows in your head. The sooner you start the task, the sooner it will be finished. Do the work as fast as possible. Enjoy results and free mind.
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You're waiting to feel like it. That feeling arrives after you start, not before. Motivation is a response to motion. So set the ritual and remove the choice: Same time. Same place. Same first move. Let the wanting show up late to the party.
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Michael G. retweeted
An emotion has a lifespan of about 90 seconds. After that, it only survives because you keep feeding it. Replaying the conversation. Building the case. Writing the story. The feeling is a wave. The story is the ocean. Let the wave pass.
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An emotion has a lifespan of about 90 seconds. After that, it only survives because you keep feeding it. Replaying the conversation. Building the case. Writing the story. The feeling is a wave. The story is the ocean. Let the wave pass.
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Overthinking is not free. Every hour spent deciding is an hour you didn't spend finding out. And the plan you're polishing isn't getting better. It's getting safer. So aim for 1% worse and go. You'll be three versions ahead by Friday.
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Replying to @IAmAaronWill
Good advice Aaron!
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Replying to @ItsKieranDrew
I believe that results are a reflection on the actions you take on the things that actually matter - 80/20 rule and theory of constraints. I explain all of it here: xitter.cf/TheDiffpath/status/211…
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Replying to @SahilBloom
You feel uncerainty when you confront what you're afraid of. And what you afraid of is often your bottleneck holding your progress. xitter.cf/TheDiffpath/status/211…
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Getting better at everything is how you get better at nothing. The bottleneck is the one thing making everything else slow. A non-bottleneck done well is still a non-bottleneck. Find the one thing. Ignore the rest on purpose.
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Michael G. retweeted
Write down what you believe. All of it. The quiet ones too. "I'm bad with money." "Success requires suffering." "People leave." Now ask the only question that matters: Is this true, or is this a habit? Most of your limits were never yours. Delete them.
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Write down what you believe. All of it. The quiet ones too. "I'm bad with money." "Success requires suffering." "People leave." Now ask the only question that matters: Is this true, or is this a habit? Most of your limits were never yours. Delete them.
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Michael G. retweeted
Stop trying to destroy your emotions. They're not your enemy. They're reporting on something real. Anger tells you a boundary got crossed. Fear tells you this matters. Envy tells you what you actually want. Read the signal. You don't have to obey it.
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Stop trying to destroy your emotions. They're not your enemy. They're reporting on something real. Anger tells you a boundary got crossed. Fear tells you this matters. Envy tells you what you actually want. Read the signal. You don't have to obey it.
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Replying to @AlexHormozi
Go get after your biggest goals! And whenever you’re blocked when you’re thinking about it, there’s a fear that can be conquered through thinking techniques.
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You don't find yourself. You decide, then act, then become. Every action is a vote for the person you want to be. Skip the workout? A vote. Send the pitch? A vote. Stay quiet in the meeting? A vote. There's no neutral vote. So you're always electing someone.
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