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If You Want To Achieve Your Goals 10x Faster, You Need To Stop Following Routines
You’ve been looking at success the wrong way
After years of studying motivation, goal-setting, and building momentum, I’ve discovered that if you want to achieve your goals 10x faster, you need to stop following routines.
I know what you’re thinking. Let me explain.
Routines don’t work for most people. If you have young kids, pets, travel a lot, work remotely, if you have a disability…it’s extremely difficult to follow the same routine every day. If you keep trying, you’re just going to get frustrated and quit.
Before my wife and I adopted our little puppy Penny, we had a pretty steady schedule. I was waking up early most days to write, and my routine was pretty much the same every day.
Then we got a puppy, and everything changed.
Suddenly, our puppy was waking up an hour or two before we did, barking and whining until we’d play with her, screwing up our entire sleep schedule. When she was awake, she could be completely crazy and there was no way I could sit down and work during that time.
The rest of our schedule was flipped upside down — we needed to take Penny on walks, to the dog park, dog training class, we needed to…
