Eli @Timetivity

Don’t have the same routine consistently. Your highest ROI task changes, and your routine should change with it. One week you need to focus on improving this part of your business, the next week on that part. It’s always different otherwise you’d not make progress. Consistency is important. But only if you’re consistently getting better.

The only obsession you should have is with your product. Make your product better and better and you’ll make more money. Of course marketing is important, but imagine you have the best product in the industry. People will know this fast. Your product is your biz. So improve it if you want to improve the biz.

If you want to be successful in life, you need to do the opposite of what most people are doing. If you want to be successful in business, you need to be different from your competition. At the end, you always need to stand out. Therefore, people judging you or laughing is actually a good sign because it means you’re different from everyone else. Therefore, mediocrity is avoided. And that’s the goal at the end.

Nobody started as an expert. Thinking you need to be an expert is what keeps people broke. You first need to start and then let the process make you an expert. It’s strange to look at successful people thinking that once they had no clue what they were doing. But that’s how it is. They just put one foot in front of the other. And that’s the only way to make it.

Don’t work like normal people. I now realize why normal people just need 10x longer than productive ones which is simply because of how they’re structuring their work. Normal people: Unstructured work with breaks after pre-defined times. Productive people: Highly structured with one focus per work block and only break when the flow state turns off. Successful people just use their brain as an asset for their work. Normal people kind of ignore it.

Success attracts success and failure attracts failure if you identify yourself with these things Look at all the people who made it. They get exponentially more opportunities for success after they’ve become successful. It’s the same with our minds. If we’re successful in our minds, then we’ll be more likely to be successful in other things. That’s why it’s so important to get small, quick wins. They show your mind you’re successful, so you get into a winning mode.

It’s funny how most people misunderstand burnout. Either people think it doesn’t exist (until their body shuts down) or they think after 10 minutes of being tired that they’re burned out. Truth is, the human body can actually work under a lot of pressure for quite some time. You aren’t burned out after a few days. But if you’re pressuring yourself for months, then you can get a real burnout. And then it’s literally impossible to work anymore, because the whole system just collapses. That’s why I’m always saying you should prevent burnout at all costs. If you have one, you’re knocked out for at least a few weeks.

Never be obsessed with the outcome. Always be obsessed with the process. Someone who genuinely wants to do the work will achieve all the goals regardless. But most people who just want the outcome are basically dreamers who never achieve it. Sure, I want the outcome. But I simply enjoy what I’m doing. I want to get better at it every single day. So ask yourself: Do you actually like what you’re doing? Do you want to work because of the work or only because of the outcome? This is a really crucial thing to know, since you need to be consistent for months and years with it.

You’re literally sleeping on mastery. If you’re just spending like 30 minutes a day on something for a year, you’re already better than 99% of people at it. And the truth is: It’s ridiculously simple to do that. Have one thing to learn or whatever you want to do, and then whenever you have a few free minutes just look at it. Then you’re automatically filling the 30 minutes. And all that from time that otherwise would have been wasted.

Focus on the present moment. Goals are good and important. But once you have them, you can’t obsess about them all the time. You need to obsess about how to get there. About the process. Because only the process will deliver the results you want. That’s actually why motivation and goals can sometimes be counterproductive. They should never block your vision so much that you can’t do the work anymore.

People don’t get that business is a lot about managing your emotions. It can literally go from 100 to 0 and then from 0 to 100 again in just a few hours. But maybe it needs a bit longer to go from 0 to 100 when times aren’t that easy. And that’s where most people give up because things seem impossible. That’s why only the ones win who are able to control their emotions through these uncertain times where everyone else would quit.

@MalikHughess Definitely

What are your thoughts on music during work? I usually don’t listen to it in deep work, but I feel like it can actually be good for getting into a flow state. Dopamine is a big part of flow and music can provide that in a natural way. The problem is that the moment I stop the music, it just continues running in my head. My brain simply becomes kind of a radio station. Do you listen to music, some focus sounds, or nothing at all?

@RTthinks Oh yeah, I definitely agree with you

@AdrianLSanders Same for me I don’t use it for my workouts too

@StefStojanovski Definitely mate, I agree There’s a lot of good stuff out there but it always depends on the situation and mood etc

@rpmessaging On repeat? Man this would make me insane hahaha

@lifewithskanda Definitely Just for focus it’s better without it

@comet__band That’s actually how I see it too

You need to have someone to look up to. Most people are average and therefore they think only average things are “realistic.” But if you have someone who actually accomplished what you want to do, then there’s no reason to even think it’s unrealistic. Someone did it. You can do it too. It’s that simple. If someone says it’s unrealistic, this person immediately makes it unrealistic for themselves. Never listen to such people. Listen to the ones who did it.