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 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.