The Mountain Is You

HOW YOU RESOLVE THIS
Start measuring your outcomes and focusing on at least doing one
productive thing each day.
It’s no longer about how many days you really wanted to go to the gym; it’s
about how many days you did. It’s no longer about wanting to show up for
your friends; it’s whether or not you did. It’s no longer about the great ideas
you had about how to change your business; it’s about whether or not you
did.
Stop accepting your own excuses. Stop being complacent
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with your own justifications. Start quantifying your days by how many
healthy, positive things you accomplished, and you will see how quickly
you begin to make progress.
D I S O R G A N I Z AT I O N
By leaving our lives and spaces in disarray, we are not just mindlessly
forgetting to take care of our surroundings.
We are often actually creating distractions and chaos that serve an
unconscious purpose.
A clean, organized space—both for work and for living—
is essential to thriving. This means a tidy home, clothes that are easy to
reach and put together each morning, a clean kitchen, and an organized

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desk. Paperwork should be filed in one space, your bedroom should be
calming, and everything should have a “home” that it can return to at the
end of the day.
Without cleanliness, we create fewer opportunities for ourselves. Nothing
positive, nor beautiful, flows from chaos. Deep down, we know this. Often,
when we are self-sabotaging through disorganization, it is because when we
are very clean or organized, we get an uneasy feeling. That uneasy feeling
is what we are trying to avoid, because it is the recognition that now that
everything is in order, we must get to work on doing what we need to do or
who we want to become.
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When we leave our spaces messy, we are always a few tasks or priorities
away from stepping out and showing up.

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