3 Habits To Change Your Life

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3 HABITS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE

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Journaling.

When you hear journaling, you may think it’s something that monks or spiritual woo-woo people do to ‘connect with their inner self’. However, journaling has countless real-world benefits that, if you’re not taking advantage of them, you’re just missing out on. Don’t treat journaling as some spiritual thing; it's more of a release and a method to logically analyse your emotions. Lots of people, and men especially, tend to keep their thoughts, feelings, and emotions bottled up inside of them. Whether that’s because of how they were brought up or because of what the idea of a ‘masculine man looks like, they think it’s the right thing to do.

This gets you nowhere. If you’re not comfortable talking to other people about your emotions, talk to yourself about them. Write them down in a notebook, and this allows you to attack and analyse them logically and create proactive and forward-thinking next steps instead of being stuck in this cycle of juggling your emotions.

This will also feel like you’re being listened to. As humans, we have a need to release energy, and your emotional baggage is part of it. Sometimes you just need to release your thoughts and speculations onto a piece of paper to be able to see your thoughts from a different perspective.

Making your health a priority above all

Making your health a priority should be a no-brainer, but too many people put it on the back burner. They have this idea that they will start focusing on their health when it becomes necessary to do so, but at the point when it becomes necessary, it could be too late. As quoted at the start of this issue, a healthy man wants a thousand things, and a sick man wants one. Nothing else will matter if your health is critical, so make it a priority to be active or go to the gym 3–4 times a week.

This doesn't have to be heavy lifting or bodybuilding exercises, but just being active will do enough. You could even pick up a sport. Something like combat sports is fantastic not only for your physical health but also for your mental health. You’ll acquire skills along the way, such as discipline, confidence, and community.

Become more active and know you’re playing a long game. A game in which you will not win, but you should find joy in being a participant.

Sources of income that are dependent on you

The final habit is to find sources of income that are dependent on you and not on others. Now this works to an extent because, at the end of the day, if you are going to acquire income from a product or service, it will be dependent on others buying that product or service, but you need to be the only person in control of the input to achieve the output.

The traditional route is to work for someone else, whether it's a big company or a small one. You are an employee who ultimately could be fired any day due to circumstances that are out of your control, and that's scary as that means you are living in a system of constant risk, whereas, working for yourself or in a system where you are in control of the input and action to achieve the outcome, there is much less risk as you’re the one in control. You get to decide whether you need to work more or do something differently.

This results in you filling your own pockets, not someone else's, and not being dependent on other people but on your own will.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

• Start Journaling

• Get your health in check, and create a plan to make it a priority

• Look into acquiring sources of income that are dependent on you.

TAKEAWAYS:

Habits can make or break you, be wise with the ones you implement.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is ‘The 33 Laws Of Business & Life’ by Steven Bartlett. This book is brand spanking new, at the time of reading this less than a week old but fantastic nevertheless. Steven has sat down with countless successful people on his podcast and condensed the information into 33 digestible laws for you to consume! Get it here!

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @NiklasChristl, a self-improvement and self-discovery YouTuber who, in simple terms, makes movies about self-improvement. He produces his content in such a way that it is hard to look away from and enjoyable to learn—definitely worth checking out!

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

When you solve your own problems and sell the solution, you can guarantee that those problems exist on the global scale, and rest well knowing that you are making a difference.