Self-Management

Three Genius Types — Physical Emotional and Mental Conceptual

People fall into three primary genius types: physical genius (spatial and mechanical abilities), emotional/social genius (relationship and feelings mastery), and mental/conceptual genius (abstract thinking and mental models)

Most People Deny Their Inner Butterfly Effect

Most people deny having Inner Butterfly Effects and act like they control their thoughts, feelings, and actions, but honest self-examination reveals that minds constantly run off and start thinking about unproductive things

Seeing Your Self-Image as One Tree in the Forest

First recognize that you operate based on your self-image, not who you really are. Once you can see your self-image as just one tree in the forest rather than being trapped inside it, you can change and take control of it.

Control Emotions, Become Calmer When Others Freak Out

Control your emotions and maintain composure. If you lose emotional control over something, that reveals what you need to work on. When others freak out, become calmer and more calculating instead of reactive.

Face Welcome Utilize Three Steps for Unwanted Circumstances

The three-step process for dealing with unwanted circumstances: Face it (look directly at what's happening), Welcome it (accept the circumstance into your life), and Utilize it (use it for growth and success).

Define Winning as Following Your System Not Results

Define winning as following your system and keeping your commitments, independent of the results you get. Results are just byproducts of your actions, and you only have indirect control over them.

Creating New Habits Requires Dramatically More Energy Than Expected

Creating new habits requires dramatically more energy than people expect because habits become deeply ingrained neural pathways, like animals creating worn paths in the woods through repeated use

Why Goal Setting Fails — Multiple Elements Must Work Together

Goal setting doesn't work because most people don't enjoy setting goals, we don't live in a simple cause-and-effect world, and success requires multiple elements working together systematically.

Self-Regulation Across Physical Emotional and Mental Dimensions

Self-regulation must be practiced in three dimensions: physical regulation (fasting), emotional regulation (staying calm when triggered), and mental regulation (meditation and thought control)

Traits That Define a Driver Hire for Virtual Teams

Look for drivers who are proactive, result-oriented, have a sense of ownership, take personal responsibility, and have passion combined with a track record of completing projects successfully.

Do Whatever It Takes to Overcome Internal Barriers

You must do whatever it takes to overcome internal barriers - whether that's taking courses, getting therapy, or attending self-esteem programs - to get yourself into consistent daily action.

Time Flows Equally for Everyone — You Can Only Manage Yourself

Time management doesn't work because you can't actually control time—time just flows and everyone gets the same amount. The real challenge is learning to manage yourself and your responses.

Counterintuitive Investing vs Spending on Liabilities

Investing means buying things with high intrinsic value that appreciate over time, while spending means buying liabilities—and productive investing is usually counterintuitive, not obvious

Map Your Time Before Focusing on Highest-Value Work

To become more effective, you must first identify and become conscious of how you're currently investing your time throughout your days before you can focus on the highest value activities

What a Condition Is and Why It Controls Future Decisions

A condition is a higher-order decision that automatically makes many future decisions for you, like setting a rule that affects years of your behavior without having to decide each time.

Personality Parts Shift Control Throughout the Day

We unconsciously shift between different personality parts throughout the day - lazy parts, motivated parts, loving parts, independent parts - without realizing when control switches

Screwing Up Fast and Getting On With It

Sensors perceive the world through their five senses and focus on concrete details in the present moment, while intuitives focus on meaning, theories, and future possibilities

Switching from Wants-Based to Needs-Based Purchasing

Switching from wants-based to needs-based purchasing builds your most valuable asset—yourself—by developing self-discipline, emotional control, and new wealth-building habits

Identify Three Out-of-Control Areas, Then Set Conditions

Start by identifying the three most important areas where you feel most out of control, then create one action step for each area that sets up conditions to give you control.

Physical Health Is the Highest-Leverage Foundation for All Results

Physical health is the highest leverage activity - it creates the foundation for emotional health, which creates mental health, which enables relationship and business health

What Separates a Driver From a Paycheck Employee

A 'driver' is someone who takes ownership of delivering results rather than just working for a paycheck, developing the ability to motivate themselves and get back on track

Architect the Whole Routine Before You Try to Implement It

Detailed planning is mandatory for successful ritual creation - you must architect the whole routine, organize all chunks, and ensure they fit together before implementing

Ideal Team Response — Listen Understand Then Assess Fit

The ideal team response to new requests involves listening without pushback, understanding fully, then analyzing how it fits with current priorities before implementation

Willpower Burns Fast on Conflict and Temptation

We get very little willpower and usually burn it on internal conflict, external conflict, multitasking, and resisting temptation - leaving none for important activities

Learning Self-Reliance Over Depending on Others for Education

Eben Pagan emphasizes that you must become great at finding knowledge and learning, taking complete responsibility for your own education rather than relying on others.

Daily Update System — Five Minutes Covering Wins Problems and Questions

The Daily Update system requires new hires to send a 5-10 minute daily email covering three areas: what they accomplished, problems encountered, and questions they have

High-Value Work or True Rest: No Middle Ground

Ideally, you should either be doing super high-value money-making activities or relaxing - people making 6 and 7 figure incomes don't waste time on low-value tasks.

Synergistic Scheduling Alternates Intellectual and Physical Tasks

Arrange activities synergistically by putting intellectual, emotional, and physical activities next to each other rather than grouping similar activities together

Niche Focus Customer Listening and Personality Drive Traction

Focus on a niche and truly understand customer needs while having personality, listening to them, and getting them involved to create a business that catches on.

Acknowledging Lower Self States Without Judgment

When you notice you're in lower self, acknowledge it without judgment and make getting back to higher self your top priority using whatever methods work for you

Why Most People Avoid Deciding: Fear of Responsibility

Taking responsibility for decisions is part of leadership - most people unconsciously choose not to decide to avoid taking responsibility for potential failures

Great Days Compound Into Great Weeks and Months

Success spirals either upward or downward - great days create great weeks, great weeks create great months, but cheating early screws up everything that follows

The Optimal Morning Ritual Before Checking Communications

The optimal personal success ritual: wake up, drink water, exercise, eat 300-400 calories of raw/green/organic food before checking any external communications

What Makes a Woman High Quality Beyond Physical Beauty

Quality women are those who have developed themselves beyond just physical beauty - they have self-esteem, responsibility, intelligence, and moral character

Projecting Strengths and Weaknesses: The Admire-and-Hate List

Stop projecting your strengths and weaknesses onto others - make lists of people you admire and hate to identify what to cultivate or eliminate in yourself

Goal Setting Fails Because Most People Prefer Solving Problems

Goal setting doesn't work for most people because they don't like setting goals in the first place - most people prefer solving problems over setting goals

Entrepreneurship at the Leading Edge of Self-Responsibility

Entrepreneurship is at the leading edge of self-responsibility, requiring complete ownership of your situation, decisions, thoughts, actions, and results

Why Ritualization Is the Highest-Leverage Habit Strategy

The highest leverage activity for creating habits is ritualization - creating rituals done at the same time daily until they take root like planted seeds

Project Managers Are Rare — Most People Just Want to Show Up

Project managers are valuable because most people don't want to take responsibility for delivering results - they only want to show up and do their work

Self-Direction Skills for Virtual Business Owners

Virtual business owners must develop strong self-direction and management skills since the accountability structures of traditional offices don't exist

Why No One Will Teach You to Escape Manipulation Systems

No one will teach you how to escape these manipulation systems - you must consciously learn how your human animal works and guide your drives yourself

Enlightened Multitasking Scheduled Into Specific Time Blocks

Practice enlightened multitasking by scheduling specific times for multitasking and being proactive about what you'll accomplish during those sessions

Replace Bad Habits With Alternatives That Satisfy the Same Need

Replace bad options with good alternatives that satisfy the same need - like using miracle fruit tablets to make lemon water taste like sweet lemonade

High-Quality Water Critical for Body Function

Two-thirds of the human body is water, which carries nutrients, cleanses the system, and maintains balance - making high-quality water intake critical

See Your Self-Image as One Tree — Not the Whole Forest

When you learn about your self-image and see it as just one of the trees rather than being trapped inside it, you can change and take control of it

Body Built to Move — Conscious Exercise for Optimal Function

The human body is built to move and resist gravity, and conscious exercise moves lymph, blood, and oxygen while opening joints for optimal function

Daily Update System Creates Documentation for Hard Conversations

The Daily Update system provides clear documentation for termination conversations by focusing on the one consistent request that wasn't fulfilled

Why Coaches Resist Offering Guarantees

Inevitability thinking is the next evolution of goal setting - instead of relying on willpower, you create conditions that make success automatic

Learning Conscious Control Is Like Teaching a Bear to Bike

Learning conscious control is like teaching a bear to ride a bicycle—it requires many small steps, practice, and expecting to fall off repeatedly

Controlling Your Schedule Programs Others to Respect Your Boundaries

Maintaining control over your schedule programs other people to respect your boundaries and reinforces your proactive leadership of your own day

Hourly Value Formula — Yearly Income Halved, Remove Zeros

Calculate hourly value using yearly income divided by half, then remove three zeros - if you make $100,000 per year, you make about $50 per hour

Regaining Control in Your Three Most Chaotic Life Areas

To take control of your life, identify the three most important areas where you feel most out of control and create conditions to regain control

Entrepreneurs Can Switch from Automatic to Manual Mode

Entrepreneurs can switch from automatic to manual mode, like a professional camera, to achieve dramatically better results than default settings

Meditation Builds Conscious Willpower and the Ability to Focus

Practicing presence and meditation builds conscious willpower and the ability to direct your own mind, which creates power in business and life

Daily Attention Practice Includes All Five Senses and Visualization

The optimal daily attention practice includes mindfulness of all five senses, emotions, thoughts, and conscious visualization of desired future

Reactive Mode Means Waiting for Triggers Instead of Leading With Priorities

Most people operate in reactive mode, waiting for emails or calls to trigger them into action instead of being proactive about their priorities

Scheduled Rest After Acknowledging Accomplishments

Give yourself specific permission to rest and relax after acknowledging your accomplishments, rather than just continuing to work without pause

Why Managing Time Creates Frustration — You Can't Control It

When you try to manage time, you're trying to manage something external that you have no control over, creating frustration and elusive results

Ownership and Responsibility as the Common Denominator

The common denominator across all seven valuable business roles is someone willing to take ownership and responsibility for delivering results

Hire Drivers — People With Ownership and Proactive Orientation

Hire drivers who show proactive behavior, result orientation, sense of ownership, and personal responsibility rather than just skilled workers

Early Habits Persist as Automatic Patterns

Most self-communication habits were learned when young and continue habitually even when we know better, creating a knowing versus doing gap

Build a Morning Success Ritual Before Business Work

Create a personal success ritual in the morning - spend the first hour or two making yourself physically strong before engaging in business

Keep 120-150% More Tasks Than You Can Complete

Keep 120-150% more tasks on your list than you can complete to enable constant prioritization and let low-value items naturally drop off

The Psychological Trick of Believing You Could Change If You Wanted

People deceive themselves by believing they could change if they wanted to, but they're just not choosing to—it's a psychological trick

Hidden Conflicts Create Organizational Politics

Organizational politics emerge when people hide conflicts rather than addressing them directly, creating behind-the-scenes negativity

Self-Development Phase — Success Without Guilt

Go through a phase of focused self-development to create success without guilt or shame, but don't forget relationships and community

Hiring for Drivers — People Who Deliver Results

Look for 'drivers' - people who take responsibility and like to deliver results, even if they're not the most charismatic or polished

Habit Gravity Resists New Routines After Day Three

Expect resistance from 'habit gravity' - after the first few days of excitement, old habits and the old you will resist new routines

What a 24-Hour Fast Reveals About Self-Control

A 24-hour water fast reveals how little control you actually have over yourself, especially when your mind takes over in the evening

Harder to Interrupt You Forces People to Solve Problems Themselves

When making it harder for people to interrupt you, they often figure out how to solve problems themselves instead of relying on you

Time Management Is a Misnomer — Manage Yourself Instead

Time management is fundamentally a misnomer—the real challenge is learning to manage ourselves and our automatic behavioral systems

Treat Your Learning Like a Business

Treat learning and development like a business by ensuring daily reading and challenging yourself to learn something new every day

Humans Operate on Autopilot — Laying Pavement Over Pavement

Humans operate like robots, doing the same things daily and laying 'pavement over pavement' until they can't do anything different

Morning Ritual: Exercise, Water, Nutrition Before Business

Create a personal success ritual in the morning with exercise, water, and nutritious meals before engaging in business activities

Why Conflict Is Leadership Practice Worth Celebrating

Rejoice when you experience conflict because it's practice - mastering conflict management is one of the true tests of leadership

Below 100-Per-Hour Work Robs You and Your Business

If you have cash flow and bills paid, doing anything worth less than $50-100 per hour robs yourself, your team, and your business

High-Leverage Opportunities Must Be Chosen Deliberately

High-leverage opportunities are not things that chase you down or interrupt you - they must be identified and chosen deliberately

Taking Full Responsibility Gives You Control Over Results

Taking full responsibility for results gives you control over your success, even though you can't control most variables in life

Willpower Wasted on Resistance Not Habit Creation

Humans get very little willpower daily and most burn it on internal conflict and resistance rather than conscious habit creation

Inevitability Thinking Sets Conditions for Success

Inevitability thinking asks what conditions you need to put in place so that what you want happens naturally and automatically

Avoid Replying to Email Immediately 80-90 Percent of the Time

Consciously avoid responding immediately to emails 80-90% of the time to avoid programming people that you're always available

Guilt and Shame as Unsustainable Entrepreneurial Fuel

Guilt and shame often drive entrepreneurial success, but this creates unsustainable patterns and eventual burnout in business

Productivity Pyramid Spans Both Business and Personal Activities

Successful productivity management requires categorizing both business and personal activities across all four pyramid levels

Identify One Core Strength Candidates Must Excel At

Focus on identifying one core strength that candidates must excel at, then let driven people figure out the additional skills

Unplugged Time Delivers More Value Than Low-Dollar Tasks

Spending time unplugged, relaxing, or enjoying experiences provides more business value than doing low-dollar tasks yourself

Internal Self-Criticism Is Tone and Images, Not Just Words

Self-criticism includes not just negative words but the tone and mental images you use when talking to yourself internally

Treat Customers as Business Friends to Improve Retention

Self-regulation is the new emotional maturity - the ability to manage your own emotions especially when triggered or upset

Focus Is a Muscle Built Gradually Over Consistent Practice

Clean cuts involve completely stopping one activity and transitioning cleanly to the next without carrying mental residue

Build Rituals Because Willpower Burns Down Under Internal Conflict

Create rituals to build habits because willpower is limited and gets burned up by internal conflicts and decision-making

Clean Cuts: Stop One Activity Fully Before Starting Another

When you lose clean focus, bring yourself back gently without judgment, just like meditators do with breathing exercises

Accept You Cannot Control Yourself and Design Systems Instead

Accept that you cannot control yourself most of the time and design systems accordingly rather than relying on willpower

Become Hard to Reach — Calls Waste Time Video Helps Thousands

Become difficult to reach by phone because calls are usually time-wasters while video content helps thousands of people

The Combination Approach Successful People Use to Win

Most people have much less self-control than they think they do, as demonstrated through simple challenges like fasting

Fuel With Organic Greens, Superfoods, Healthy Fats, and Raw Protein

Fuel your body with the most nutrient-dense foods: organic greens, superfoods, healthy fats, and raw vegetable protein

Morning Exercise Builds Daily Energy Instead of Depleting It

Exercising early in the day counterintuitively provides more energy throughout the entire day rather than depleting it

The Constant Inner Radio Most People Never Notice

Your mind runs a constant inner radio of self-talk that most people don't notice but significantly impacts performance

The Body Balances Itself in Motion — Movement Is the Default State

The human body balances itself while moving, so constant movement is required for optimal physical and mental balance

Valuing Your Time Above All: The Valuation Analysis Habit

Value yourself and your time more than anyone else - always do valuation analysis and prioritize what's highest value

Emotional Control as a Leadership Diagnostic Signal

Maintain composure and control your emotions - if you lose emotional control, that reveals what you need to work on

Integrating All Three Brains Improves Productivity

Learning to integrate and use all three brains together makes productivity and time management significantly easier

Honest Time Audits Include Worry Not Just Work

Honest assessment of time allocation includes activities like worrying and working hard, not just productive tasks

Morning Peak Awareness for Success Rituals

Morning is when you have peak awareness and willpower, making it the optimal time to invest in your success ritual

Change Channels Between Physical Emotional and Logical Activities

Change channels by switching completely from physical to emotional to logical activities to prevent mental fatigue

Goal Setting Fails Because Most People Don't Enjoy the Process

Goal setting doesn't work well for most people because they fundamentally don't enjoy the process of setting goals

Self-Management Means Taking Full Responsibility for Results

Self-management requires taking full responsibility for your actions and results rather than projecting externally

Telling Star Performers They Are the Expert

Tell star performers they're the expert, you need them to take responsibility and tell you what needs to be done

Morning Exercise Counterintuitively Creates More Energy All Day

Exercising and burning energy in the morning counterintuitively leads to more energy throughout the entire day

Drop Self-Judgment When Starting New Productivity Systems

Eliminate self-judgment and perfectionism when implementing new productivity systems - focus purely on action

Body Alignment Technique to Interrupt Negative Patterns

Breaking friction patterns saves massive amounts of energy and preserves willpower for productive activities

Install Support Systems Instead of Relying on Willpower

Install support systems like training wheels rather than expecting perfect self-control in challenging areas

Take Complete Responsibility — You Can Only Change Yourself

Take complete responsibility for your thoughts and actions - you can only change yourself, not other people

Conditions as Decisions That Cascade Long-Term Consequences

Conditions are choices that pre-make a bunch of other decisions for you and have long-term emergent effects

Drink Half a Liter of Water Before Anything Else Each Morning

Start every day by drinking half a liter of water before doing anything else to kickstart physical renewal

High-Leverage Opportunities Require Proactive Pursuit

High-leverage opportunities don't chase you down - you must proactively identify and pursue them yourself

Consistent Long-Term Action Beats Magic Insights

Success comes from consistent long-term action, not from pushing magic buttons or having single insights

Learning and Teaching Combined Skills Reveals Your Genius

This process of learning and teaching combined skills is how you develop and find your own unique genius

Business Needs Both High-Value Product and Strong Marketing

Start with just the first 2.5 hours rather than changing your entire day to build the habit successfully

Star Performers Must Contribute 3-10x Their Pay

Star performers need to contribute 3-10x more value than what you pay them for the business math to work

Goal Setting Directly Creates Opportunities

Goal setting has a direct relationship to creating opportunities and must be understood in that context

Myers-Briggs Sensors vs Intuitives: Present vs Future Focus

Move your frame of reference inside - stop seeking external validation and compete only with yourself

High Performers Naturally Take a Two-Hour Afternoon Break

Most high performers take a natural 2-hour break in the afternoon as part of their ultradian rhythm

Time Management Is a Misnomer — You Only Manage Yourself

Time management is a misnomer because you can't actually control time—you can only manage yourself

Alignment Creates Freedom Flow and Natural Momentum

Getting into alignment creates feelings of freedom, flow, and things working as they need to work

Define Winning as Following the System — Not Results

Define winning as following your system and keeping commitments, independent of immediate results

Two-Column Assessment Reveals Priority-Time Misalignment

The two-column assessment reveals massive gaps between priorities and actual time allocation

Specific Techniques to Gain Control Over Yourself

There are specific techniques to learn better self-management and gain control over yourself

Turning Mental Practices Into Sustainable Rituals

Sustainable transformation requires turning new mental practices into consistent rituals

Rest Resistance and Rest Anxiety Block Natural Renewal

Rest resistance and rest anxiety prevent people from accessing natural renewal systems

Three Kinds of Brain Require Different Self-Regulation Approaches

The three kinds of brain require different approaches to self-regulation in business

Three-Brain Awareness Enables Business Self-Regulation

Three-brain awareness enables practicing self-regulation across all business areas

Specific Deadlines Create Preparation Momentum

Set specific deadlines for preparation tasks to create momentum and accountability

60-60-30 During Your First 2.5 Hours for Maximum Leverage

Plan your meals in advance for your 30-minute break to maintain energy levels

Project Managers Take Ownership When Others Point Fingers

Project managers are valuable because they're willing to take responsibility for delivering results, while most people only want to show up and do their work. When problems occur, most people point fingers, but project managers take ownership of whether something gets done and communicate about delays.

The Gap Between Self-Image and Real Mental Control

Most people want to act like they're totally together and never experience mental chaos, claiming they control their thoughts and feelings. However, honest self-examination reveals that minds constantly run off into unproductive thinking patterns.

AI Expert Extinction Risk Survey Data

Self-actualization is when you're no longer afraid and operate at a high level of effectiveness and power. For entrepreneurs, it represents the ultimate goal where you stop acting from fear and become truly inspiring and beautiful as a person.

What Business Adulthood Actually Demands of You

It means taking complete responsibility for your financial life, being ready to self-direct, and accepting that no one will rescue you when you don't have enough money. It's jumping out of the business nest instead of relying on a job.

Practice Decisions, Own Outcomes, Repeat Until Confident

Practice making decisions, taking responsibility for outcomes, and learning from mistakes without ego attachment. Like learning to walk, you'll fall down initially but eventually develop expertise and confidence through repetition.

Taking 100% Responsibility for Your Financial Situation

Take 100% responsibility for your financial situation, admit you've been relying on others for security, and start creating value for other people instead of feeling entitled to job security or spending on wants rather than needs.

Self-Concept as Filter — High-Status Identity and Performance

Assets have intrinsic value and grow over time while generating cash flow, whereas liabilities decrease in value and consume your time, money, and energy. Wealthy people buy assets while poor people spend money on liabilities.

Drivers Own Results Not Just Paychecks

A driver takes ownership of delivering results rather than just working for a paycheck. They take personal responsibility for outcomes and have developed the ability to motivate themselves and get back on track every time.

Buying on Needs Builds Self-Discipline and Wealth-Building Habits

Buying based on needs instead of wants builds self-discipline and teaches you to control your thinking and emotions about money. This creates new wealth-building habits while building your most valuable asset—yourself.

Humans Have Very Little Actual Self-Control

Humans have very little actual self-control. Most people cannot consciously control basic functions like slowing their heartbeat by 20% or changing hand temperature. Self-control is largely an illusion.

Time Management Fails Because It Ignores Inner Patterns

Time management fails because it focuses on external scheduling rather than internal self-management. The real challenge is learning to manage your automatic behavioral systems and unconscious patterns.

Biggest Challenges of Running a Virtual Business

The main challenges include communication bandwidth loss, need for strong self-management, family boundary issues, mental confusion from isolation, and difficulty seeing what team members are doing.

Social Media Misguided Envy Blocks Authentic Success

Eben explains that social media creates 'misguided envy' because people showcase image management rather than reality. This distraction prevents authentic success and personal development.

Entrepreneurs Burn Willpower on Resistance Not Production

Most entrepreneurs burn their limited daily willpower on internal conflict, resisting temptation, and dealing with distractions instead of using it for productive business activities.

Giving Stars Autonomy and Getting Out of Their Way

Give them freedom and autonomy rather than control. Tell them they're the expert, let them take responsibility for decisions, and provide resources while getting out of their way.

Positive Focus Gives Direction Without Which Motivation Dies

Positive focus gives you clear direction and motivation. Without knowing where you're going, you have no motivation to do the work needed to get there.

Be an Indentured Servant to Your Own Future, Not Someone Else's

If we're gonna be an indentured servant, let's be an indentured servant to our own futures so that we're creating wealth and success long term for ourselves, but let's not be an indentured servant for others.

Systems and Accountability Partners That Support Your Best Work

no junk food is a condition okay it's a it's kind of a higher order decision that i made that then went and affected like years of my life and probably will ultimately wind up affecting decades of my life

Setting Up Incremental Control Over Your Life Is Highest Leverage

this is one of the highest leverage things that you can do in your life is to think about how to set things up so you have more and more and more incremental control of your life

The Self-Deception Loop That Kills Time Management

we deceive ourselves and we tell ourselves that we could change if we wanted we're just not choosing to it's a great little trick that we play on ourselves

Robots Who Wake Up Daily and Run the Same Thoughts

we are really almost like robots that we wake up every day we do the exact same things we think the same thoughts we feel the same emotions

Ownership and Responsibility as the Rarest Business Asset

We're always looking in business for someone to take responsibility and to take ownership of the project and deliver the result.

Ideal Clients Have Lions Commanding Their Attention

in order to take control of your life and your money you must start putting the conditions in place to slowly get it back

Clean Focus Means Returning Without Judgment When You Drift

when we lose our clean Focus we just bring ourselves back to clean Focus we don't get upset about it we don't judge it

Time Management Is a Misnomer — Manage Yourself Instead

time management is a misnomer the challenge is to manage ourselves you can't really manage time time just flows

Totally Out of Control From Skipping a Couple of Meals

you'll realize you're totally out of control and it'll just be because you skipped a couple of meals

Willpower Is Scarce and Burned by Internal Conflict

We get very little willpower each day, and most of us burn it inefficiently on internal conflict.

Entrepreneurship at the Leading Edge of Self-Responsibility

Making the decision to be an entrepreneur is at the leading edge, really, of self responsibility

Make Yourself Strong First — You Can't Strengthen Others Otherwise

if you're not strong you can't make other people strong so make yourself strong first thing

Reactive Mode — Being a Pinball Bouncing Off Everyone Else's Priorities

all day I'm in reactive mode I'm like a pinball getting shot all around the pinball machine

Time Management Is a Misnomer — Self-Management Is the Challenge

Time management is a misnomer. The challenge is to manage ourselves.

Focus Is a Muscle You Build Over Time

focus is a muscle it's something that we build

Goal Setting Doesn't Work Very Well

goal setting doesn't work very well