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My brother told me he had read that the some of the most successful people (CEOs and the like) get up before 7:00 in the morning. They get more things done this way, and I certainly believe that they would. A few hours to a CEO is a lot, especially when you have a jam packed schedule every day, to the point where you have to have someone else plan it has to mean that you have a lot of stuff to do. When you have a lot of stuff to do, minutes count.

Waking up for me in the past has been immensely difficult o do because I am rather well… lazy. I just don’t like to get up in the morning. I wake up, hit my alarm clock, and go back to sleep. I like waking up whenever I feel like waking up. It’s one of life’s treasures to me. However, this is the most optimal way to be — and so something needs to change.

My goal is to wake up at 7:30 am every day. I’m going to do so by setting my alarm clock on my phone and just “soldiering” it.

That is, getting up without snoozing because a soldier wouldn’t. Or else they’d die. Or something.

I read Steve Pavlina’s How To become an Early Riser, which says to go to sleep when you’re tired, and wake up at a set time every day so your body is “set” to do so.

This is a good challenge for me — a step along the way in my pursuit of perfection.

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Everyone should set both realistic goals and ideal goals in order to manifest their desires. When you have a goal, you have a dream. When you have a dream, you have a desire. When you have a desire, you have will.

Here’s one of my goals: Make a million dollars.

How do I reach that goal? I won’t just wake up one day and go, BOOYEA, I’m a millionaire! That is, unless I uhm… win the lottery ( which I’m working on ) , or something.

How do I get to a million? Make several hundred thousand.

Short term goal: Make $120,000 in a year. I picked $120,000 because that would give me the nice even number goal of $10,000/month.

I don’t think $10,000/mo is a very realistic goal for me right now, so I’ll lower that to something that I feel is do-able, $1,000 a month.

Whether or not I reach that $1,000 a month is not a live or die moment to me, it’s just an indication of where I’m at and where I am going in terms of my goals. If I make $10 the first month, I damn well better pick up the slack if I’m ever going to be on my way to the goal!

However, that won’t mean that I’ll start to slack off if I make $1,200 in my first month. It just means that I’m going to revise my short term goals to reflect what I’ve made. So I’ll say instead of making $1,000 next month, I’ll make $2,000.

That’s the act of progression, and is seen and taught everywhere in everything. For example, weight lifting is progressive — you up the reps and weight as you get stronger, otherwise you don’t get anywhere.

Short term goal: Make $1,000/mo. (increase to $2,000 if I pass the $1,000 mark the first month.)

Long term goal: Make $10,000/mo. (This’ll take a while.)

Thinking small: Make $120,000/yr. (I wonder what color my hair will be.)

Thinking big: Make $1,000,000/yr. (That’s a lot of zeroes.)

Anyone need their dogs walked?

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B = My big brother

L = My little brother

M = Me

L: …coincidentally, the black ranger was black.

M: Yeah… and guess what the yellow ranger was.

L: I dunno, chinese?

B: No, she was viet… her name was like Trang.

L: and what was the green ranger? smart?

M: …and you’d never believe what the white ranger was.

L: yeah, he was white… the buffest one and the leader too.

M: no he wasn’t, the red ranger was.

L: yeah, but he just kinda takes over like the FBI.

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