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Can’t Hurt Me

Key Points

  • Always take the challenge and turn it into great power with the right mindset—turn something negative into positive
  • Have a physical accountability mirror; feel the duty to complete
  • Keep doing something outside of your comfort zone every day—crave discomfort
  • Be familiar with your own insecurities
  • Be familiar with your opponent’s weaknesses
  • All physical and emotional pain is finite—it will end at some point
  • When you focus on helping others, you forget about your “demons”
  • Commit to doing something physical or mental, then “break the record”
  • Set deadlines for anything
  • There is much more left in your body than you realize

Improvement Ideas

  • Write a list of what is challenging you today: what problems and limitations do you encounter? What excuses are you making? Don’t be nice to yourself
  • Write insecurities, dreams, and goals to remind yourself that you need to start working because you aren’t smart enough
  • Cookie jar for future obstacles
  • Do whatever you must to stand out amongst the people around you—be #1
  • After action report—keep it when failing something to understand why
  • When feeling like giving up, ask: “What if I don’t?”
  • Document every moment of your day with timestamps—baseline for how much time you waste in the day
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