How to Change Any Behavior and Evolve Into a Better Version of Yourself

Anthony Moore
9 min readMar 29, 2021

“There is one thing that 99% of failures and successful people have in common: they all hate doing the same things. The difference is successful people do them anyway.” -Darren Hardy

Most people will spend their whole lives trying to change negative behaviors, but will never really have lasting success.

Changing behaviors is hard, no doubt about it. Evolving into better versions of yourself takes sacrifice, energy, and focus. Most people see the price and simply say no.

In his book, The 10x Rule, author Grant Cardone wrote that maintaining an average life takes about as much energy as developing an extraordinary life.

Changing your negative behaviors might seem like more work, but in the long run, it actually saves you energy, time, and money than if you never changed.

This is because negative behaviors cost you so much.

In a fascinating video, the NFL had an average guy race against speedy NFL players. Of course, the NFL players won. But even the largest, “slowest” players — a linebacker — soundly beat the average Joe. They even gave the average guy a head start.

How did this happen? The linebacker is a trained runner. He knows how to move as efficiently as possible…

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Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore

Written by Anthony Moore

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