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What habit would you say most positively impacts your life?
The daily morning workout. That has been a complete game-
changer. It’s made me feel healthier, younger. It’s made me not 
go out late. It came from one simple thing, which is everybody 
says, “I don’t have time.” Basically, whenever you throw any 
so-called good habit at somebody, they’ll have an excuse for 
themselves. Usually the most common is “I don’t have time.” 
“I don’t have time” is just another way of saying “It’s not a pri-
ority.” What you really have to do is say whether it is a priority 
or not. If something is your number one priority, then you will 
do it. That’s just the way life works. If you’ve got a fuzzy basket 
of ten or fifteen different priorities, you’re going to end up 
getting none of them.
What I did was decide my number one priority in life, above 
my happiness, above my family, above my work, is my own 
health. It starts with my physical health. [4] Because my physi-
cal health became my number one priority, then I could never 
say I don’t have time. In the morning, I work out, and however 
long it takes is how long it takes. I do not start my day until I’ve 
worked out. I don’t care if the world is imploding and melt-

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ing down, it can wait another thirty minutes until I’m done 
working out.
It’s pretty much every day. There are a few days where I’ve had 
to take a break because I’m traveling, or I’m injured or sick or 
something. I can count on one hand the number of breaks I 
take every year. [4]
One month of consistent yoga and I feel 10 years younger. To 
stay flexible is to stay young.
How you make a habit doesn’t matter. Do something every 
day. It almost doesn’t matter what you do. The people who are 
obsessing over whether to do weight training, tennis, Pilates, 
the high-intensity interval training method, “The Happy Body,” 
or whatever. They’re missing the point. The important thing is 
to do something every day. It doesn’t matter what it is. The best 
workout for you is one you’re excited enough to do every day. [4]
Walking meetings:
• Brain works better
• Exercise & sunlight
• Shorter, less pleasantries
• More dialogue, less monologue
• No slides
• End easily by walking back
Like everything in life, if you are willing to make the short-term 
sacrifice, you’ll have the long-term benefit. My physical trainer 

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(Jerzy Gregorek) is a really wise, brilliant guy. He always says, 
“Easy choices, hard life. Hard choices, easy life.”
Basically, if you are making the hard choices right now in what 
to eat, you’re not eating all the junk food you want, and making 
the hard choice to work out. So, your life long-term will be 
easy. You won’t be sick. You won’t be unhealthy. The same is 
true of values. The same is true of saving up for a rainy day. 
The same is true of how you approach your relationships. If