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• Mini is essentially the same as a mini habit, with a bit more lateral flexibility. Plus (medium) comes from the idea that you’re doing more than the minimum requirement, even though you don’t have to. Elite (large) comes from the idea that if you do this level of activity consistently, you will become elite in that area.
• We’ve all tried flapping our proverbial wings to exhaustion before. But have we found the best thermals and updrafts of life?
• Our lives are best described as fluid. Each second, minute, hour, and day flows into the next, and it’s always in motion, always changing. Like the ocean, life has: Sudden highs and lows (just like waves rising and crashing). Sustained periods of highs and lows (just like ocean tides). Positive and negative momentum across multiple levels of time (...
• With a calm mind and smart strategy, however, there are multiple ways to escape a rip current. The best option is to swim parallel to the shoreline before swimming towards it.4 This is a good metaphor for life, since swimming “sideways” doesn’t look like progress, but is sometimes a necessary step to make progress. Since rip currents are relatively...
• You need to like and respect what you’re doing (and all it entails) if you want to keep doing it for weeks, months, and years.