You’re Avoiding This One Thing — And It’s Costing You Your Biggest Goals.
“The difference between those who succeed and those who don’t isn’t talent or luck — it’s their tolerance for boredom.”
You want to change. You die to transform your life. Deep down, a voice keeps telling you that you are worth way more than what you’re getting paid now — way more than what you can produce now.
You know it.
You definitely want to change and live that different life you dream about but don’t have yet.
“You’ve read books, made plans, and set goals — so why aren’t you making progress?”
You make plans, set goals, and strategize. But for some reason, you don’t see much improvement. You work a little, and then life throws you back where you were — back to the same lifestyle, habits, routines, and job.
You get frustrated because this is not where you want to be. You don’t want to, nor do you plan to, spend your life like this.
You live in constant rage, stress, anger, and negative self-talk.
You get bitter and harder on yourself.
The only reason? You can do, be, and have more — and you know this.
“If hard work alone was enough, you’d already be successful. But something else is holding you back.”
What needs to be done?
Two things: subtraction and embracing boredom.
You can’t stay disciplined because your environment is too fun, full of novelty, and packed with distractions.
That’s why you have to subtract.
Delete as much as you can. Delete ruthlessly so that you have enough time for the tasks that will change your life once completed.
Subtract everything that makes it hard to start working on those tasks. What I mean is, make it almost effortless to wake up and start working on the life-changing tasks right away. Analyze your days, find the things that distract you and make you lose the golden hours in the morning.
List them — then kill them.
Eliminate them.
Again, be ruthless. They are costing you your life, your dreams, and your future.
Don’t be naive and think that one day it will somehow get easier to work on your tasks, and then you will magically become productive, finishing project after project while the money starts rolling in.
It won’t happen.
After listing distractions, you have to make one more list. This one will have tasks too — except these are “productive” things that you are doing.
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Once you have this list, you will rate each task based on how much it contributes to your main goal. Whatever doesn’t move you closer to your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) must be eliminated immediately.
“Success isn’t about working harder. It’s about what you’re willing to endure.”
Once you complete these two steps, it’s time to talk about boredom.
It will be hard to start, continue, and end your days with this new schedule.
Since you don’t have a lot of novelty and fun distractions anymore, you will feel extremely bored. Your brain will rebel against you.
If you give up, you will have an average life. You will stay in the same place, dreaming but never achieving. But if you persist, your life will change significantly within a year.
To persist long enough, you must build a tolerance for boredom. And you already have it — you just need to use it.
I won’t share tips that promise to make it easy. It’s not easy. Especially at the beginning, it is brutally hard. But I can share one tip that will help:
Embrace the mindset that it’s only hard because you’re not used to it yet — you haven’t tasted its fruits. Once you start using it and seeing results, it will become less painful.
The hack, the tip, the secret is simple: spend more time with your tolerance.
Tolerance is not a fixed trait. You can train it.
The more you push it and the longer you do, the more it expands. You will be able to focus on hard tasks, work on them without distractions, and eventually do it for hours.
To reach that point, you have to keep using it. There is no way around it.
“99% of people will never reach their biggest goals. The reason? They refuse to do what’s necessary.”
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3. Observe, write down every distraction, and ruthlessly eliminate them.
4. After that, list your productive activities and stop doing the ones that don’t take you closer to your BHAG.
5. Review, grade, and see where you can improve to become more disciplined, productive, and fulfilled. There is always room for improvement. Don’t settle. Reviewing is the most underrated habit.
6. To get to the TOP 1%, you have to live a different life from the 99% of people you know, interact with, see, talk to, and spend time with.
7. You reap what you sow. Don’t try to change the results without changing your inputs. Live like the 1% — to get to the 1%.