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Focus | Discipline | Mindset

EVIL SAINT

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 DEDICATION

This book’s primary objective is to change the way you live, on a day to day basis. It
gives you solid approaches to, basically, GET STUFF DONE.

In this regard, I would like to dedicate this program to:

- The ones who fell off
- The ones who never started
- The ones who wished, but didn’t know how to make that wish come true
- The ones who lost their drive
- The addicted, and distracted
- The broke
- The depressed
- The clueless
- The planners who never DO
- The victims of societal conditioning

To all those who want to change their lives for the better, this book is dedicated to
you. I sincerely hope you work hard and in line with this guide to change your life for
the better.
 TABLE OF CONTENT

PRELIMINARY PAGES
Title Page
Copyright Disclaimer
Dedication
Table of Content
TIME MANAGEMENT
Mapping Your Own ‘Daily Clock.’
Steps To Map Your Daily Clock
Your Peak Productivity Periods
Sleep Schedules
Creating Your Template
Break Routine
Rules Of Prioritizing
Why You Should Use A Stopwatch
DISTRACTIONS
Social Media
Rules To Social Media
Emails
Phone Calls
Practicing Mindfulness
Examples Of Practicing Mindfulness
DEALING WITH SOCIETY
Rules Of Interaction
PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE
How To Read Fast
MINDSET RESTRUCTURING ACTIVITIES
Mental Models
 Music
Speech Speed
Intentional Delay, Act Not React
Availability Of Mental Triggers
MONEY
My Advice To You On Money
My Six Rules Of Spending
MORNING ACTIVITIES
Workout
Meditation
Drinking water
MEDITATION BY NAVAL RAVIKANT
ACCOUNTABILITY AND DISCIPLINE
The 3 Disciplinary Measures For This Exercise
INTEGRATE EVERYTHING INTO YOUR DAY AND WEEK
Week
Day
Deadline Everything
Record
SAMPLE DECISION MAKING TREES
BONUS SECTION: For Those Who Are Not Working
“ The Most Important Skill

You Will Learn,

Is The Ability To

GET. STUFF. DONE! ”

 INTRODUCTION

I’ve seen men throw away their lives ignorantly, destroyed themselves in their youth,
and suffered the consequences of their gross negligence in their old age. From a
young age I’ve always wondered how one person could be successful at 25 and
another person at 45. I concluded that ultimately none of us could predict, with
absolute certainty, when someone would be successful. However, a person can
increase the chances of them being successful.
I noticed that most men who were unsuccessful at an old age still had the habits that
were attributed to most young people: short term thinking, opportunistic mindset,
lack of goal-setting, poor time management, suck at dealing with distractions, poor
money management, and a host of other things. The worst part is that society has
created social conventions that allow these negative, failure-connected behaviors to
be excused with humor. You hear people say ‘I suck at keeping up with deadlines,’ or
‘I’m bad with money,’ followed by laughter - disgusting laughter. People aren’t eager
to change, and by the time old age catches up with them, regret does with it.
This has pushed me into learning some of the ‘common,’ but overlooked techniques
and ideas that aid achievers in being effective, and intense. I decided my way of life
will be the way of intensity and focus. My motto: ‘Get. Stuff. Done,’ and while I am
no master of the intense living (we all fall sometimes) I have learned that “when you
shoot for the stars and miss, you at least get the moon.”

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This book is not exhaustive; it’s aimed at getting you started on the right foot. Call it the
ignition. But, don’t get excited just yet. I plan to grind you to the ground. It’s a compilation of
simple, but intense ideas and rules for effectiveness on a day to day basis.
 A Poll I Conducted

The Problem

Although the poll below shows only 100 votes, you can see where the trend is
headed. Taking this as a lead, we can assume that for every 100 people, 61 of them
admit to having a problem with following through on their commitments. 14 have a
problem with making plans and 25 have a problem with both.

The Solution

Learn how to follow through. Techniques for execution are far harder than those for
planning. Nearly everybody will tell you they are decent at planning stuff. This book
will dwell mostly on execution techniques. But, it will also give some planning
strategies.
 TIME MANAGEMENT

Your time is invaluable, you don’t get lost time back.

You can build better relationships, make more money, win back what you lost, but
'time,' you can never recover.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of utilizing your time to the max. There
are 24 hours in a day, and that is all you’ll ever need in a day. If you cannot properly
handle these 24 hours, an extra 5 hours will make no difference.

In this section, you will learn how to:

- Map your daily clock.
- Learn your peak productivity periods.
- Work with sleep schedules.
- Integrate your activities around the first three.

Mapping Your Own ‘Daily Clock’

You may ask what exactly a ‘daily clock’ is? It is a term I came up with to describe
how humans each have different tendencies to be more productive, tired, or even
more excited at different times of the day (and night). There are no hard and fast
rules when it comes to times of the day. Everybody has what I call a ‘daily clock.’ To
be productive you need to understand yours.
A study I came across once claimed that people were happiest at around 7 pm on
Saturdays. So what happens to other days of the week, and other times of the day?
Some people are happier on Sundays, and others are happier on Mondays. While
some people refer to themselves as morning people, others are known as night owls.
Everybody has different times of the day (and night) that resonate well with them.
This, of course, has a lot to do with what we do during these periods. You weren’t
born to be happy on Sundays, it is the sort of things you do on Sundays that makes
you happier that day of the week.
Now, I could try to teach you how to break this cycle and create a new one, but why
do that when you can use it to your advantage. Why swim against the tides when
you can ride the waves? It doesn’t make any sense. Why must you do ‘this’ or ‘that’
in the morning, why can’t you do it at night?

Steps To Map Your Daily Clock

Step 1: Knowing Your Tendencies

Night Time
Ask yourself these simple questions:
- How many hours am I awake between 11 pm – 5 am?
- How many of those hours am I awake because I can’t sleep?
- How many of those hours am I doing something I would consider ‘enjoyable?’
- How many of these hours would I have average in a week?
- Would I consider myself a ‘night owl?’

Day Time
Ask yourself these simple questions:
- How many hours on average do I sleep during the day?
- How many times on average do I nap during the day?
- What time of day do I wake and when do I usually go to bed at night?

DO YOU ENJOY YOUR NIGHTS OR DAYS BETTER?

Step 2: Mapping

Get a pen and write out your answers. Study them for 15 minutes. Make sure to
answer as honestly as you can. You should not say you are a night owl because all
your friends call themselves that and it seems like a ‘cool’ thing to be. Some people
genuinely enjoy the night better than the day. They find that time more enjoyable,
and more productive. It is also obviously quieter at night. Less societal buzz, and
noise from activities. I can’t determine your daily clock for you, only you can do
that.

Note: the purpose of this is to simply determine whether you tend to find yourself awake late
into the night, how often you do, why you tend to do so, and whether or not you genuinely
enjoy this. If you know the answers to these, you may skip this section entirely.

Once you have studied your answers from above, you will need to make a general
estimate of how your days usually go. It seems quite obvious, but you’d be surprised
that the average person has no idea how their days are usually spent. If you ask 100
people how many hours they spend watching TV daily, 90 will estimate wrongly.
The average person watches 19 hours of TV weekly (not including services like
Netflix). Add Netflix and its cousins, and you get more than a whole day dedicated to
watching TV every week. But most people don’t know this, and of course, it is this
ignorance that keeps them in that vicious cycle of mediocrity. If you don’t know how
your days are usually spent, how can you consciously change how you spend them?
Once you’ve made your estimates, you should know what time of the day you should
dedicate to the most important tasks (when you are most productive and not a time
when you usually feel like sh’te).

Your Peak Productivity Periods

Now that you have mapped your daily clock, you need to determine your peak
productivity periods. Why do we have peak productivity periods?
 Sometimes it is because of the structure of our days that is already in place –
one which might have been cemented over a long period. You trying to
immediately change the structure of your day which has been developed over
5 years will almost always spell disaster. After a week you’ll be back to the
same thing. But, there has to be a way around it, right? Yes. You need to first
take advantage of the structure in place by utilizing your peak times, and then
gradually restructure to the way you want it to be. What do I mean? If you
 enjoy staying up at night, then start doing your must important work at night.
If you start to hate the night time, good, sleep. If you still enjoy the night time,
good, work. But, the work must be done, night or day.
 Other times it is because of our environment. How can your environment
affect you? You don’t expect to be productive in the mornings if you live with
people who always wake up at that time to clean the entire house. Chances
are that they end up making a lot of noise, and may even disrupt what you are
doing. But, they won’t be cleaning throughout the day. So, if this is the case
for you, then mornings might be off the table. But, for people who are in
control of these circumstances, mornings are pretty much available, and an
excellent time for getting the most essential tasks done.
 Lastly, once you master restructuring you can even have what I call ‘chaotic
days.’ These are days when you don’t structure your activities, you simply
know what you plan to do that day and you get everything done before the
end of the day. You don’t hold yourself down with any rules segmenting your
day. Be warned: I do not advise you to try this, because only a few can pull it
off. It is also not something a person looking to reorganize their daily activities
should be into, leave it to the pros. No, seriously, leave it to Naval. Don’t do
this.

Sleep Schedules

The human body needs 7-8 hours of sleep a day. You can have 4 hours of sleep and
have another 4 hours after some time. You don’t need to sleep 8 hours straight
(although that is what most people think). Your sleep schedules are simply how you
incorporate sleep into your day. The body needs to rest, nothing can replace that –
not drugs, not mindfulness, and especially not that thing they tell you about tricking
your mind into believing you got enough sleep. You need to sleep, period. Bad sleep
schedules are usually what mess up people’s days, and they don’t even know it.
Although you need to structure your sleep schedules according to the structure of
your day, I will give you an insight into how my sleep schedule is structured.
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I sleep between 5 am-11 pm. When I wake up I usually bathe and do other mundane
activities. I don’t work out in the morning. After eating, I usually start working at
around noon. I work from that time till 5 pm, which is when I do my workouts, and
then have dinner. I usually finish working out and eating by 7:30 pm. Now I sleep for
an hour, and when I wake, I change my activity. What do I mean by change activity?
I have different activities I do during the day, so if I was writing in the afternoon, in
the evening I will be working on my social media growth. If I was reading (which I
don’t consider work) in the afternoon, I will write in the evening. I leave my most
important work for night times because that is my most productive time, hence why I
start sleeping around 5 am. I don’t work for hours on a stretch. When I have 5 hours
to work, I usually just work 4 and then I sleep for an hour. I estimate I get about 9-10
hours of sleep a day. It seems counterproductive, but it isn’t. If you can be at top
productivity for 2 hours, you’d be able to accomplish what someone at minimal
productivity will accomplish in 6 hours. Aim for peak productivity, not more hours.
You don’t need more hours in the day, you need more focus.
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You don’t have to follow the structure of my day. Frankly, I would advise you not to.
This section is mainly about getting you to create your structure. Think of it as the
template unto which you will fill out the activities you will be doing. You will be
creating time slots during the day, and then filling these slots out with activities. One
reason I decided to make this section first is that I strongly oppose having activities
and then looking for how to fit them into your day. Rather, I prefer you to have
empty chunks of time, knowing which chunks offer the most productivity, which
chunks can be disrupted, and which chunks can be put off in favor of alternatives.
Once you have this down, you pick out the things you need to get done and put them
into different chunks based on priorities, which activities you can afford to have
disrupted, and which activities are sacred to you. That’s what the time structuring is
all about – creating a template and then filling it out.
Creating Your Template

You will use this template for recording progress. It is going to be the backbone of
your success on this never ending journey – you get to choose how long you’d
practice, but I recommend at least a month.
When ‘anytime’ can be work time, then you can be sure ‘no time’ is work time. It
takes an extremely disciplined individual to not have a structure in their day and still
get things done. If you are that person, then probably this book is not for you.
You need to take out chunks from the 24 hours of the clock. How do you take these
chunks out? If you mapped out your ‘daily clock’ then this should be easy. If you
haven’t yet mapped out your ‘daily clock,’ then you should do so before deciding
which chunks to take out.

Here are the chunks you need to take out:

The Ones That Cannot Be Negotiated

 At least 5 hours of sleep: You need to take out at least 5 hours to sleep, at a
go.
 1-hour nap – twice: You should take out 1 hour to nap during the day, twice. If
you wake up 6 am you could nap from 12 pm-1 pm (for the first nap), and
then nap from 7-8 pm for the second nap. This helps to reset your system and
refresh you so you can continue with your activities during the day.
 1-hour workout: You need to take out 1 hour for working out, this is not
negotiable.
 1-hour reading: You need to take out 1 hour to read daily, this is not
negotiable.

Now you have roughly 9 hours down, which leaves you with 15 hours to structure
your day around. This is entirely up to you, and largely dependent on the work you
do. However, here are some tips you can use when structuring the rest of the 15
hours.

 2 hours of work – thrice. Chunk out 2 hours of work into three places around
the day, that’s 6 hours. You can put in 3 different tasks to do in each chunk.
 4 hours or more for your most important task: You need to take out 4 hours
for your most important activity. That is the largest chunk you will have
working throughout the day. I mentioned earlier that I work mostly at night so
my 4-hour chunk is between 1 am – 5 am.
5 hours or less for everything else: Activities that fit this description:
- Checking your emails
- Working on your social media account growth (if you are growing a twitter account
like me)
- Making phone calls to people whose calls you missed
- Chatting with your loved ones
- Going out to see friends
- Listening to podcasts (don’t watch TV)
- Making personal research
- A walk in nature

If you are a student, or work a 9-5 you can adjust the secondary chunks to fit your
availability. But, the non-negotiables remain non-negotiable.

Find reasonable activities to engage in rather than engulfing yourself in self-

destructive activities. I usually play competitive chess during my downtime, and I’m
also a member of a book club. It is also during this time I chat with all the people I
need to chat with. You must also ensure to put this particular chunk within your least
productive time of day. You do not have to exhaust a complete 5 hours on these
activities, but you do need time during the day when you are not ‘working.’ You
cannot be working 24 hours a day, you will soon breakdown. However, this time is
the only one you have for these activities. They must never intrude into the other
chunks you have allocated for more important activities, never!
You also do not need to have this at a go. You shouldn’t. Block out 2 hours twice, and
then an hour. Fit it into your day. It should be more like a break from work.

Break Routine

It is important to break the routine. If you’ve successfully stuck to your routine for a
week then you need to break it. The reason most people start a project and end up
spending way more time than necessary in completing the task is simply routine. The
human is a creature of habit, and in this sense tends to get used to routinely
activities. That means we want to know what will happen and anticipate when it will
happen. We don’t want things to change because change often makes us feel
uncomfortable. But, that is just the point. When you get too comfortable you slack. If
you keep doing the same thing, the same way, at the same spot, for an extended
period, you’ll start lagging. You need to switch things up (just a little bit) every once
in a while. When you get used to working in the morning, take it to the evening.
When you get too accustomed to evening time, take it to the morning. If you seem to
dread a particular time because of the activity associated with that time, change the
time for the activity. It might seem counterproductive, and most people will tell you
to be resolute and stick to one routine that works. These are the people that usually
don’t get things done, or end up taking forever to do so. The main reason you hate
your job isn’t that it’s so terrible, it’s because you got tired of the routine. Most
people were excited to start working at their 9-5. But, as time went by they got sick
of the routine, and started to detest the job they had once loved so much. Sadly,
they have no control over the time they need to show up at work or the time to
leave. This gets frustrating, mainly because it makes you feel powerless over how you
spend your time. And what happens when we feel powerless? We rebel! You don’t
want to make yourself feel powerless over how you work. You want to remind
yourself you have the power to change the rules of how you spend your time while
sticking to the most productive approach within the modification. So, break routine.
You also do not want to make it too randomized. Say, you create a different work
timetable for every day of the week. It works fine, but ideally, you want to stick to
one for about a week before switching it up. This is because by the time you do the
same thing for 7 days you would have started to get accustomed to the pattern,
which is exactly when you need to break it. The reason you don’t want to randomize
each day is that it creates too much chaos. You need some form of order, and at the
same time avoiding falling into the deadly grasp of routine. You need to strike a
balance.

Rules Of Prioritizing

Important and urgent: Do these tasks right away.

Important but not urgent: Decide when to do these tasks.
Urgent but not important: Delegate these tasks if possible.
Not urgent and not important: Set these aside to do later.

There isn’t much to be said about the rules of prioritizing, but here is a little analogy
to explain how it works.
A project that will take 5 days to be completed, which has a deadline set for the next
20 days is important but not urgent. A project that will take 5 days to be completed,
which has a deadline set for the next 10 days is important and urgent. If your family
members come to your house to see you while you are at the office working; that is
urgent but not important. No, seriously, it isn’t important, but it is urgent. If you
missed a call from your old friend, and you plan to call them back, that is not urgent,
and that is not important.
So, if all these come to you at the same time, you will focus on the urgent and
important project, then move to the urgent, but not important, then choose
between the urgent and not important, and not urgent and not important.
Why You Should Use A Stopwatch

I recommend the use of a stopwatch (physical stopwatch, not your phone’s

application) for two reasons. One reason is that it helps you manage time while
keeping at a distance from your phone while you work. Secondly, it creates a sense
of urgency, but not in the way a countdown timer does. You will be able to see that
you’ve used up 40 minutes, but not that you have 40 minutes left. If you do creative
work, then use this at your discretion. A nice wrist stopwatch costs only a couple of
dollars. You can just start the stopwatch and do your work, and by the end of the
task, you’ll be able to see how much time you used.
 DISTRACTIONS

Looking at this statistic makes me feel sorry for most of humanity. People spend years of
their lives doing mundane activities. Worst, they spend years doing useless unproductive
things. An average of 15 years using social media and watching TV! What the hell?!

There was a time when I used to categorize only irrelevant things as distractions. I
would turn off my post notifications for social media but leave my email notification
on. Why did I do this? I think the answer is obvious, I believed since my emails (which
were mostly from clients) were relevant (of course I want the money on the way) it
would be best I reply to them as soon as possible. The problem I had with this was
that I had to constantly reply to emails whenever I’m working, which made my
productivity levels very low – while I was still oblivious to this. I would be working
and then receive an email from a client. I would immediately stop to reply to them
and then see that I missed an email from earlier during the day. I sometimes ended
up spending half an hour replying to emails and didn’t even notice what it was doing
to my productivity levels.
I began to realize the fault in my design when I started submitting client work (I
write) days after the agreed deadline. By the time I submitted my second 7-days-
behind-deadline work I knew I had to go back to the drawing board. I had to find out
what exactly it was I was doing wrong. Surely replying to emails was a necessary part
of work, and yes, answering phone calls too (what if there was an emergency), and a
bunch of other things I considered relevant.
It wasn’t long before I concluded that when I’m working, when I sit on that table in
front of my laptop to work, the only thing relevant, the only emergency there can be,
the only priority in my life, was whatever work I was doing at that moment, period.
This has helped me finish works days before the deadline, and not just to be fast, but
also to produce quality content.
You may have had your ideas of the things that are relevant and the things that
aren’t, but I’m here to correct those assumptions. Here is an effective man’s way of
handling distractions.

Social Media

Before I start on the best ways for handling social media distractions, allow me to
digress on a more effective way of dealing with social media, although not the
primary focus of this chapter.
I’m not a huge fan of social media. The best way to handle social media (addiction) is
to delete your accounts. If you are constantly on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter,
scrolling newsfeed, liking posts, making posts, and have been doing so for the past 2
years without earning anything from it how then can you let this become a priority in
your life. You don’t need it.

Note: If you are reading this book I assume that you want to change your life and that you
paid to get this book because you are invested in doing so. This book is not tailored to satisfy
your fragile sense of self. This is for people who are serious about their lives and want to see
some real changes.

Now, where were we? Ahh, yes, you don’t need it. Delete your accounts.
You don’t need to delete all your accounts though. You can keep one, the one you
believe you learn the most from. Twitter is a good place to be, I’m not endorsing it
but it is preferable to Facebook, Instagram, and the likes. Most social media
platforms are designed to make you feel inadequate. A report showed that out of a
sample of people who had reportedly quit social media, 17% said they did so because
it made them feel bad about themselves, 41% said they wasted too much time on it,
and 35% said there was too much negativity. You don’t need all that in your life.
Delete the negativity from your life, you won’t die, I promise.
Now, that is the best approach to it, however, not the easiest. Understand that
breaking a habit suddenly might be difficult for you, so I have designed an easier, less
painful method of slowly detaching/unplugging yourself from this addiction.

Rules To Social Media

Reward: You can only use social media after achieving something during the day. To
be clear, you cannot use social media in the morning or the afternoon.
Time Regulation: You can only use social media for a stipulated period. 15-30
minutes. Use a stopwatch. If however, you earn money online, then you are free to
set a longer duration depending on how long you need to be online.
Abstinence: You will choose for every week two days when you will not log in to any
of your social media accounts. The days don’t have to follow each other. You could
choose Saturday, and Tuesday. You can always adjust this for each week. I would
recommend using a tool to schedule your posts if you work online, and since the two
days don’t have to succeed each other you can always catch up the next day. You
won’t be missing out on anything.
Punishment: Men must punish themselves. You need discipline. Nobody can instill
that discipline in you except you. You need to ensure your actions have
repercussions. If you binge on social media for a prolonged period, you must cut off
for twice the usual. If you catch yourself getting a FOMO (Fear of Missing Out), then
you must wait it out. You must wait until you no longer feel the need to check your
account as though your life depended on it.
Accounts: You don’t need to be everywhere. I advise you have only one account, or
at most two social media accounts. Choose the ones you believe are most relevant to
you. Delete all your other accounts. Period.

Emails

Dealing with emails is quite simple. Fix half an hour to reply to all your email inboxes.
Have two slots in the day. One when you wake up and one in the afternoon or before
the day ends. This is as simple as it gets, you do not have to reply to your emails
every five minutes, except your work demands it, and frankly, a lot of people who
think their work requires it are quite mistaken. To some extent, emails can wait. If
however, you get a time during the day when you aren’t busy, say you finished what
you were supposed to do 15 minutes early, you can peek at the emails. But, do not
do this when you are working, it kills your productivity. Elon Musk, on how he
manages his three companies, said the first task he takes on before the start of his
day is replying to all his emails. You may not be Elon Musk, but understand that it
isn’t being successful that forces productivity, it is productivity that brings success.
Learn the work ethics of the successful and with that, you are on your way to being
one.

Phone Calls

When I write, I always put my phone on silent and turn off the cellular data.
Sometimes I finish and discover I have a missed call. I never bother that I missed
somebody’s call, and why should I. I can always call back when it is convenient. No
emergency requires your attention so much so that without you it cannot be
resolved. If it is so urgent, there will always be a way out. If it isn’t, it can wait. You
don’t have to be checking your phone every 30 minutes. Drop it. Finish whatever it is
that you are doing, even if it takes 2-3 hours. When you are done you can revert to
the people that tried to reach you.

This does three things for you:

- It makes people know that you have priorities and that you won’t always be
available. If you have a set schedule, people who notice will stop calling you when
you are working.
- It helps you reach a state of optimal productivity, a state in which a person can be
as productive in 2 hours as someone who is in minimal productivity would be in 6
hours.
- Some people have ADD, once they get distracted it becomes nearly impossible for
them to return to what they were doing immediately. If you find out that every
digression from your work takes you 15 minutes or more to return, then you must
prevent all possible distractions. Have 4 of those and you’ve lost an hour.

Practicing Mindfulness

Sometimes you don’t get distracted, rather you obstruct your progress. You are
working on one thing and then suddenly remember something else you are
supposed to be working, and decide to stop what you are doing. Stop doing this.
When you put something in front of you, let it be the only thing that matters at that
moment. Even if the world is going to pieces, let it. Let the world burn. Nothing else
matters. It is this sort of focus that gets things done. You can’t expect to be
productive when every time you start something 15 minutes in you are thinking of
something else, or daydreaming. Do it as though your life depends on it because it
does. Be 100% in the present, and 120% engrossed in your task. This is the way to
maximum output. Be a machine when you work, don’t stop for anything, except it is
life-threatening.

Here are examples of practicing mindfulness:

If you are eating, focus on the texture of the food and how it feels in your mouth.
If you are reading, focus on how the text looks on the screen/page, and how the
words are stringed together and how they convey meaning. Try and deduce the tone
of the writer, and what they are trying to pass across through this text.
If you are having a conversation, focus on what the other person is saying. Observe
their body language, tone of voice, and other nuances. Focus on listening to both
their words and the meaning behind these words.
If you are driving, focus on how the road curves, how other cars pass you, and the
distance between you and the car in front and behind. The relative speeds, and other
nuances.

Focus. On. The. Task. At. Hand. And. Nothing. Else.

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Chapter Activity:

Abstain from social media for the next 24 hours. Start from the beginning of
tomorrow. All social media accounts included. Do not open any of them, mute
notifications if you have to. Reply to one. Don’t turn on your data for the whole
period.
 DEALING WITH SOCIETY

The recluse soon finds out that his ways do not benefit him, nor do they help him in
actualizing his goals. You cannot stay away from society. For one thing, if you want to
be wealthy, you need to sell – whether it’s to sell products or ideas, you must sell
something. You cannot sell without interacting with people. You cannot interact
with people without someone trying to get you upset – on purpose. It doesn’t matter
how nice you are. It doesn’t matter how much you try to avoid conflict. The more
attention you get, the more people come for you. Sometimes unfairly, yes. You have
no option but to learn how to deal with it.

Rules Of Interaction

Rule 1: Learn When To Observe Silence

You may feel like since you have to interact you must reply to everyone. No. You
need to interact with people, but you don’t have to reply to everything said at you,
said of you, or said to you. The first is the worst because when people talk AT you,
they aim to incite rage. To engage you in a meaningless argument in which they end
up throwing all sorts of baseless premises and then build on those to throw some
more fictitious facts, emotions, claims, insults, and whatnot. They are simply looking
for some entertainment for their boring lives. You don’t have to respond. Be it in
your day to day life, or online. If someone says something to you that you do not like,
remember, responding to them is not a requirement. Engage them at the expense of
your energy, time, and sanity. It’s not cowardice to ignore people who are trying to
engage you in a meaningless fight. It is wisdom. If you fight with a pig you get mud on
you, the pig gets mud too, the difference? The pig loves it.

Remember:
They. Have. Nothing. To. Lose. But. You. Do.
Here’s a quote on internet trolls I came across while reading a blog post:

“Trolls often don’t believe a word they write. But say it anyway, just to piss off the
others.”

Rule 2: Learn To Use Facts

When interacting with people, resist the urge to dive into matters you have little or
no understanding of. People are watching, and the moment you make a fool of
yourself is the moment you start to lose credibility. If you make it a habit to argue
with people concerning things you don’t have a full grasp of offline, you will become
more prone to doing it online. And the more you do this, the more automatic it
becomes. If you don’t know the facts just let it go. It may offend your sensibilities,
you may feel emotional about it, but only make moves based on strategy, not
emotion. When you do engage, however, state facts, debate with understanding in
such a way that onlookers will know that you know what you’re talking about. Often
a person may be right but because of lack of facts to back what they are saying, the
other person (who is wrong, but quotes fictitious facts) wins the debate. Debating
usually doesn’t benefit you anyways.

If. You. Don’t. Know. It. Don’t. Debate. It.

Rule 3: Remain Stoic

Don’t get excited, don’t get angry, don’t become happy, and don’t feel lovely feelings
because of something that happened. You can celebrate your victories. But make
moves based on strategy, not emotions. Learn to observe your emotions as detached
from you. You are not your feelings. When engaging with people, be stoic. Don’t let
them know how you feel, or what hurts you, or what makes you happy. They will use
it against you. You also don’t want to be going up and down feeling this and that
emotion all day. Do what is required; leave what is not, regardless of how strongly
you feel about it. Stoicism is a weapon.
Now you can appear to feel sad, to feel angry, to feel happy, yes, you can put a front
to seem like you are emotional. This strategy is a powerful tool that can help you
engage with people.

Remember:
He who can flatter at an instant without appearing to do so deliberately, anger at an
instant, make feel happy feelings, confuse with/without words, and stir all sorts of
emotions possesses power over his victims.

He who controls your emotions controls you. If you can control and direct the
emotions of others you have power over them. If you can control your own
emotions, you have power over you. But, before you can have power over people,
you must first rein yourself in.

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Chapter Activity:

Make it a point of duty to say as little as possible tomorrow. Practice mindfulness in

your conversations, both online and offline. When offline, delay by 3 seconds before
saying anything. Try to use as few words as possible to convey your message. If
someone expresses emotion refrain from commenting. Once their statement is
emotional, simply do not say anything, except they are expressly asking you a
question.
Example of emotional statements:
‘Today was such a terrible day, I feel so horrible.’
‘I hate all these things happening to me.’
‘I feel very happy, today was so fantastic, and I’ve never had a better day.’
‘I feel like buying myself some new clothes, I am very excited.’

Whether the statement is positive or negative, just refrain from saying anything.
Instead, observe the person in silence, unless they ask you a question.
 PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

One very important part of growing as an individual, and as a person who wants to
be both successful and impactful on society is to acquire knowledge. One often
overlooked occurrence is how many people make powerful friends based on what
they know alone. More knowledge also means more options to consider. More
knowledge also gives you more room to be wise. A wise man knows, but a man who
knows isn’t necessarily wise.
You don’t have to read an entire book every day; you don’t have the time for that.
Although I don’t discourage reading fiction, I seldom find myself reading one. In a
year I might read just one or two works of fiction. Don’t be mistaken, fiction is
important, although not as important as non-fiction. Fiction gives you a glimpse into
how people’s minds work, and simulates motivations behind actions, simulates social
dynamics, and so many other aspects of human interaction. In the end, you learn a
lot about people, and that is a good thing. It is a far better way to spend your time
than watching movies. Movies are shallow and focus more on actions. Books are
better than their movies.
Non-fiction is the ultimate source for mining knowledge. Although you need to be
very selective of the books you read. Don’t waste your time reading a book that adds
no value to you. You are not required to finish every book you start. I usually just
read a certain number of pages before deciding if I will finish the book or not. If a
book has 100 pages, I will read 10-20 pages, and if it doesn’t interest me, I’ll drop it. I
never pick up books I dropped. Never. There is nothing new there; I don’t want to
read it. I would rather sleep than read a stupid book. Stupid books input garbage into
your brain. After wasting your time reading them, which is a terrible loss for you, you
have to then start removing all the garbage you absorbed out of your head. Why
dump trash in your living room only to go through the stress of removing it later.
Don’t let it get there in the first place. You mustn’t let garbage into your brain. Your
mind will absorb anything you feed it. Be selective of what you feed it.
How To Read Fast

If you don’t know how to read fast you will unable to read as much as you should. A
fast reader should be able to finish one long non-fiction within a week. A slow reader
will finish it in a month. Reading slowly will hinder you from getting as much
information as you should. Yes, it isn’t about the speed, it is about understanding
what you’re reading. But, with non-fiction, there are ways you can increase your
speed without cutting on your understanding of the text. Slow readers tend to think
they understand the book better than fast readers, but it’s usually the opposite. If
you read too slowly, you will be echoing the words in your head, and this internal
monologue is in itself a hindrance to understanding. The slower you get, the more
difficult it becomes for you to concentrate on what the text is trying to pass across
because of the internal monologue. So, how do you increase your reading speed
without affecting your ability to understand?
Here are a few tips:

Scan Over Text

NON-FICTION
The purpose of reading is not to read, but to pass across information from one
person’s brain to your brain; in this case, information from the author’s brain to the
reader’s brain. With this said, if you can get this information with 50% of the text
why then would you read 100%. There is absolutely no reason. Our brains have this
incredible ability to get the meaning of sentences without having to read 100% of
what is written in those sentences. Take for instance I write:
A
Bill was such a great author; he was celebrated at the 25th Annual Authors’
Conference in Berlin last year. It was such an honor, and he was in tears as they called
his name to come on stage. When he got home his wife had made dinner. They ate
quietly and celebrated with some wine while the children slept inside.
(60 words)
The paragraph has 60 words. But a similar paragraph of 34 words could pass across
this information quite well.
B
Bill .. .. .. great author, .. was celebrated .. the 25th Annual Authors’ Conference ..
Berlin last year. .. .. .. an honor, .. he .. .. tears .. .. called his name .. come on stage. ..
he .. home .. wife .. made dinner. .. ate .. .. celebrated .. .. wine while .. children slept
...
(34 words)

If you read sentences A, and B you will see that although sentence B isn’t exactly
sentence A, the information you get from both isn’t too different. You have cut down
26 words and still have 90% of the meaning. Of course, books can’t be written this
way. The point is that your brain can understand sentences without filler words.
Filler words can sometimes be distracting. You don’t need to read every word that is
written. You will get the meaning by scanning important words and omitting filler
words. This skill takes time to master, but when you do master it this alone can
double if not triple your reading speed. You can go from reading at 200 words per
minute to 400-600 per minute with this technique alone. Also, if you read a
paragraph or a sentence and seem not to understand what you’ve read, simply
reread it slowly until you understand.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

FICTION
For fiction, I intentionally read slower. This is because to me reading fiction is less
about the information being passed across. It is more about the beauty of the
writing. Often the aesthetics and I like to enjoy how each text has been meticulously
crafted. It takes me more time to finish, but that is exactly why I read less of fiction. I
would rather delay reading a novel than rush to finish it, even if it means reading one
page a day.

Silence Your Internal Monologue

An unfortunate thing happened to you as a kid. It happened to all of us. At school,

we were taught to read while pronouncing the words out loud. While this helped us
in learning to read as children, it hinders us from being efficient readers as adults. As
you grew up, you most likely carried this technique of calling out each word as you
read out loud. “No,” you say, “I don’t call out words when I read.” But, you do it in
your head. This is called your internal monologue, and it slows you down. Your eyes
can scan over text much faster than your mouth can call out each word. So, when
you read with an internal monologue you are reading at the speed of your speech,
not the speed at which your eyes can absorb information. Silencing your internal
monologue is going to be the hardest part of learning to read fast. You need to
practice this every day if you are going to get good at it. Often, you will find yourself
calling out the words in your head again, even after you’ve learned not to do so, but
keep practicing. Make a deliberate effort to read one sentence without calling out
the words in your head. It is automatic and very difficult to stop.

Practice. Practice. Practice.

Skip Sections

With non-fiction, you may not need to read every section of the book. You will
discover that most non-fiction is extremely repetitive. This is done to cement the
idea in your brain. It is also done to add to the efficiency of the book in passing its
information to people who find it hard to grasp ideas fast. You don’t have to go
through the arduous process of reading about a concept you’ve already grasped.
Some non-fiction is also written with anecdotes within the concepts to help shed
more light on it. If you understand the idea well, skip the anecdotes. You can always
go back and reread if you feel you didn’t grasp the idea fully well. Don’t be afraid to
skip sections that repeat ideas you’ve already understood.

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Chapter Activity:

Pick a book or newspaper (anything with a narrative form text) and practice reading
the first 200 words using the above techniques. To know the word count the number
of words on the 3 line of the text and multiply it by the number of lines.
After using the above technique, reread the text, but this time slowly, the way you
would usually do it on a regular day. Then, check and see how much new information
you gained.
 MINDSET RESTRUCTURING ACTIVITIES

Restructuring your mindset is a very important step in the journey to a better life.
The importance of this can hardly be overemphasized. Very often you see things on
the internet such as mental models, mental mapping, and some others. All these are
aimed at helping you restructure your mind, or put simply, change the way you think.
The goal is to get you to be effective at what you do and the way you reason.

Mental Models

The simplest way to teach good decision making is to create a decision tree. I’ve
made three decision trees at the end of this book meant to help you with basic
decision making.
The problem with decision-making trees is they are limited to certain outcomes and
are also limited to scenarios. Some situations will not be as easy as if A then B, and if
not B then D to E. Sometimes the variables will be much more complicated than that.
In these cases, the best way to make effective decisions is to have an effective
mindset. If your way of thinking is sharp and goal-oriented, you will make better
decisions. If your way of thinking is from a distracted, and unfocused perspective
your ability to make effective decisions will be impaired.
However, this section is not aimed at teaching you how to make decisions – that’s
what the entire book has been doing. This section is aimed at teaching you how to
tweak your environment, and activities to help you make clear-headed decisions, and
perform activities at optimized states. Here are four tips that will help you become
mindful.

Music

Before reading the section on music, if you are the type that easily gets distracted by
background music when working, this is not for you. You can go ahead and skip the
music part.
Music is beautiful and I don’t limit myself to the sort of music I listen to. However, I
am very careful when it comes to when I listen to what. Music has a way of
reprogramming your mind to suit the mood of the song. A sad song will likely get you
feeling a little sad, or bring back sad memories. A happy song will tend to get you
feeling up. You can use music to put yourself in a mood if you want to feel sad, or
happy, or even angry just put a series of songs with the mood. When working, some
prefer listening to aggressive songs because it ‘fuels’ their determination. I listen to
cool music. Calm and relaxed songs have a way of getting your mind off a lot of
worries. I believe I perform best when I’m in a state of repetitive flux. What I mean is
that I simply put several songs and listen to them over and over again, until I get used
to the rhythm. My mind then drifts away from the song and I find myself working
hours without noticing the passing of time. Sometimes I use only one song to do this,
sometimes I use two, other times I use 20. But, I usually use the same set of songs for
an entire week. The aim is to get me accustomed to the same set of tunes and
rhythms. I cannot guarantee this will work for you, but it does wonders for me.
Although I don’t advice you to try working 6 hours at a stretch, I can go 6 straight
hours with repetitive music. I think what the music does for me is to silence my inner
voice, which without the music would start making so much noise I end up
daydreaming.

Speech Speed

Speaking fast might seem desirable to a lot of people. It is commonly seen as a sign
of intelligence. However, outside of music, it is neither beneficial nor desirable.
Firstly because most people will find it difficult to keep up with what you are saying,
and secondly because it hampers the effectiveness of your thought process. At worse
it makes you seem neurotic. I’ve never seen a wise man who spoke fast, nor have I
heard of one. When you speak too fast, you tend to say things with little thought
given to them. Next time you are having a conversation with someone, intentionally
delay for 3 seconds after they speak before you say anything. Do this for everything
they say. This will help you contemplate whether what you are about to say is going
to add value to the conversation or not. You can delay for longer, but you want to
avoid your conversation partner thinking you are disinterested in the conversation.
This has a way of improving the quality of your conversations. You also come off as
someone patient, and the delay will make your conversation partner think you are
listening to the things they say.

Intentional Delay, Act Not React

In life, you want to act, not react. This means to avoid giving a split-second reaction
to things. Someone starts shouting ‘fire,’ delay a second before turning. It seems
counterintuitive, but when done correctly this can save your life.
Picture this: you are walking down the street and someone shouts fire, and without a
thought, you dash off in the opposite direction and into the main road. Now, you
may get to safety, or you may end up getting hit by a vehicle coming in the
opposite/adjacent direction. It is a survival instinct embedded in us to react. We
needed this in the primitive days because that way we were able to stay clear of
predators. These days what we need is to intentionally delay our responses to some
degree. You don’t have to delay for 5 seconds, just a second. This will help you assess
the situation before making a move.
When you apply this to work, and interacting with people, it gives you immense
power over situations, but most importantly yourself. You can vary the duration of
your delay based on the situation at hand.

Availability Of Triggers

Get rid of things that trigger you negatively. You shouldn’t be easily triggered, to
begin with, but if you are then simply get rid of things that trigger you. This will help
you avoid unnecessary use of willpower. If you’re not psyching yourself not to eat
unhealthy food, then you can focus on other things. But, if you constantly pass by a
MacDonald’s and see all the spicy snacks available, you will continue to struggle not
to eat such. Just take a different route. Get rid of triggers, and focus on other
important things. This takes a ton off your mind and allows you to focus on more
important things. Your mind needs the de-stressing.
 MONEY

You should have a source of income. This book, however, is not designed to teach
you financial literacy. That is a very broad topic, one that would take up an entire
book on its own.
My advice to you on money:

- Get a source of income or start working towards one

- Think long term
- Not a job, financial independence: business, trading, something that rids you of a
boss
- Invest your money to make you more money
- Persist
My Six Rules Of Spending
Guard Your Treasures Jealously

To have wealth, you must build, but while you build you must ensure to secure your
finances and guard your treasures jealously.

Here are my six rules of spending. I use these rules to guide my daily expenses. There
are days I take exceptions. Those days usually don’t come around.

Rule One: IS IT IMPORTANT?

Only spend your money on important things. This is not the stage in life for you to
live lavishly (unless you are a multi-millionaire). Learn to spend money on relevant
things only. You don’t need to treat yourself to a lavish meal at a restaurant every
weekend. You don’t need to go out with your friends twice a week for a party. What
are you partying about? Guard your treasures jealously.

Rule Two: IS IT URGENT?

Channel your resources on urgent matters. Imagine paying your house rent three
months in advance and then starving for the next month. If you had kept that money,
delayed, and ate well then there is a pretty good chance you will be able to make
enough to cover the rest of the house rent from what you used to feed. But, starving
for a month will hamper your productivity levels. So, always make sure to address
urgent issues first – act for the now, but with the future in consideration.

Rule Three: HOW DOES THIS GET YOU MORE MONEY?

If you cannot find an answer for this, then forget about using your money for this
endeavor. If you can, then ensure to maximize the output. Juice out all the income
you could get back from this endeavor and make as much profit as you can.

Rule Four: CAN YOU AVOID IT?

If you can avoid it, do so. If you cannot avoid it then look for the best way you could
spend this money. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive, but the best.

Rule Five: AVOID CONSUMPTION LOANS

Taking loans for consumption is one sure way to constrain your finances. You earn,
but you don’t see your earnings. You make money, but you don’t see where the
money goes. That’s because you are paying for something you used long ago.
Nobody can find a good reason for this, it does not make sense. Money is abundant,
nothing is too expensive, and there is always money in the world. This is why when
one individual gets latched onto paying a consumption debt, it seems unfair, and it is.
You cannot move until the debt you borrowed is paid. If you must take a loan, it
should be production loans (money borrowed to help you make more money).

Rule Six: NOBODY IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY

Don’t give people money because you feel good. Don’t give people money because
you can. Give money because you can benefit from it. This may seem selfish, but the
world is selfish. You need to be selfish if you are to succeed. Nobody is your
responsibility. Nobody would do the same for you anyway, the ones you did for
wouldn’t anyway – everything with exceptions.
 MORNING ROUTINES

The morning is the most important time of your day. It sets the tone for the rest of
the day. If you start your day on a crappy note, there is a high chance things will
spiral downwards, and you end up on an even crappier note. If you start your day on
a good note, chances are things will only get better from thereon. This isn’t law, but
I’m sure it has happened to you once or twice. With this in mind, you want to ensure
you start your mornings as best as you can.

Here are a few morning routines that will get you started on the right foot:

- Work Out: Working out in the morning has a way of getting you amped up for
the day. It refreshes you and puts you on a high note. When you work out right in the
morning the rest of your day is likely to be energetic and productive.

- Meditation: Meditating in the morning will calm you down. It will clear your
mind so you can start the day with only what is ahead of you in mind, instead of
carrying over thoughts and worries from the past. It’s a great head-straight-ener (for
lack of a better term).

- Drink Water: You want to drink water immediately you wake up. It hydrates
your body and gets you freshened up to take the day head-on. Not drinking enough
water has been linked to depression and anxiety. Drink water in the morning so you
don’t have to worry about all that, your body needs it.

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Chapter Activity:

When you wake up tomorrow, meditate for 15 minutes, then drink some water, and
perform a simple workout routine for 30 minutes. Drink some water again, after the
workout routine.
 MEDITATION

by

Naval Ravikant

Disclaimer: I have obtained express permission from Naval Ravikant to use his
Twitter thread on meditation as part of this book.

Meditation
Meditation - The Art of Doing Nothing:

Meditation is your birth right. It's your natural state. It requires no one, needs no
thing, and has no technique. If something requires a guru, a mantra, or a teaching, it
isn't universal, and it won't free you.

We say that we want peace of mind but what we really want is peace from mind.

“No technique of the mind will free you from the mind.”

All chases, whether flow, drugs, beauty, thrills, orgasm, or devotion, are attempts to
escape from the mind. Meditation is the direct path.

In an age of mental gluttony, meditation is fasting for the mind. Before paying a
therapist to listen to you, listen to yourself. Before clearing your inbox, clear your
mind.

Just as the sky rains when the clouds are heavy, and the body sleeps when the limbs
are tired, meditation arrives when the mind is calm.

Prepare for meditation by sitting quietly in the morning, with eyes closed and back
upright, in any comfortable position that will minimize movement.

Sixty minutes are easier than thirty, as it takes time for the mind to settle down. Sixty
consecutive days are needed, just as it takes time for the body to go from unfit to fit.
Realize that at this moment, you are the only person in the world and there is no one
to instruct you, praise you, or judge you.

Make no effort for or against anything. Whatever happens, happens. Surrender to

yourself in the moment. Resist nothing and reject nothing, including the urge to
resist and reject.

Meditation is not going through thoughts but rather letting thoughts go through you.
The thought “I am meditating” is also a thought.

Meditation isn’t holy or spiritual or magical. It’s literally nothing.

No focus, no mantra, no dharma, no chakras, no Buddhas, no gurus, no gratitude, no

scripture, no temple, no music, no gadgets, no apps are required. Some may be
helpful, but eventually all will have to be left behind. Start simply, because that's
where this all ends.

There are many meditation methods, but "no effort" is the universal method. Every
creature at all times can choose to do nothing.

There's no need to get up to record a thought. If the idea was good, it’ll come back. If
it doesn’t come back, it wasn’t that good.

Meditation is a single player game. There is no point in comparing to other

meditators or to even your own previous meditations.

If meditation was easy, you’d do nothing else.

The point of meditation is not to become "a meditator" - in reality, there's no such
thing. If it doesn’t bring lasting and effortless change, drop it, before it becomes
another struggle and another chase.

There is nothing to say and nothing on offer. No one is taking you anywhere, selling
you anything, or making you promises. Reading or talking about meditation will do
nothing for you.
You cannot fail at meditation.

Ignore all advice on meditation, including this thread. “Meditation is good for
nothing. That's why you do it.”- @amirmotlagh

The closer you get to the truth, the more silent you become inside.
The ability to be content and at peace, by yourself, is freedom.
 ACCOUNTABILITY AND DISCIPLINE

If you are to be accountable for your actions, then this has to be enforced with
disciplinary actions. If your actions have no repercussions, then your decisions will be
too light and you won’t make yourself any more serious than you did before. The
ability to discipline yourself, and ruthlessly hand out punishments when you fail to
meet up to your standards is something you must cultivate. You don’t need to hurt
yourself physically, no, you should never do that. But, create, and enforce rules so
you are reminded that your actions have repercussions. It is a short term reminder
that you will ultimately bear the consequences of your actions in the long term.
Without this, complacency becomes inevitable.

Denial

As an adult, there aren’t so many punishments you can hand yourself. You have a
limited spectrum of disciplinary actions you can take when you fail to meet your
standards. One such disciplinary action is denial. This is a simple consequence of
failure to meet up with standards, deadlines, or previous complacency. What you do
is simply deny yourself some pleasure as a form of punishment. If you were unable to
reach your daily target because you allowed yourself to get distracted by some
trivialities, then there should be no social media for you (except if you work online).

Here is an example of how this can be implemented:

Sam failed to complete his essay. The deadline was 2 days ago. His was unable to
meet up with the deadline because he was constantly distracted by social media, and
going out to see his friends.

Punishment: Sam should discipline himself by not going out to see any of his friends
for a month and abstaining from social media for 2 weeks straight.

If you can observe appropriate disciplinary measures that you set for yourself, then
you are well on your way to success. Who can stand against the man who has control
over himself? How can someone break you when you have broken yourself already?
How can a system be ruthless to you when you are already ruthless on yourself?
Do this right and you shall see a tremendous change. Sometimes you may want to be
kind on yourself, but that is a trap. The greatest kindness you can do yourself is to be
ruthless on yourself. Your future self will thank you for it. Speaking of discipline, this
book will not be complete without a disciplinary measure set in place for
complacency. You don’t have to worry about coming up with an appropriate
disciplinary measure because I have done that for you.

The 3 Disciplinary Measures For This Exercise

1. A day of complacency and underachievement requires 5 days of denial.

You can choose what to deny yourself, but it should be something you
wouldn’t want to deny yourself.

2. A day of trivial distractions, and, or depression requires 5 days of denial.

3. 3 Days of either of the above or a combination of will require you to start the
whole project from day one.
This is the most important part of the disciplinary measures. It is the soul of it
all. Ignore it and I can guarantee you no change is in view for you.
 INTEGRATE EVERYTHING INTO YOUR DAY AND WEEK

Everything I have said in this book will be useless if I you do not know how to
implement it. You may have had some awesome tips, ideas, or whatnot, but the crux
of the matter is to be able to integrate it INTO your day. To be able to put everything
successfully into perspective without forgetting even one is the most important part
of this book. If you bought this book, then it came with a .docx file for logging your
daily activities at the end of the day. The file is an editable for you to be able to keep
track of progress in all aspects.

Ultimately you will determine how to integrate everything into your day. You will
make rules for yourself that follow that integration, and set deadlines, and
punishment for failure. But, here are a few tips for integration.

THE MISSION

Have at least 3 missions:

* Your Body: Fitness, and well being.

* Financial: Should always be long term, even if you are caught in a short term
frame.
* (Insert personal mission)

Remember:

This is a never ending journey. Till the day you die, you shall live (most platitudinous
statement you will ever read), and as long as you live, you must live to your greatest
capabilities.

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While I would love to tell you what to put as financial, and body pursuits,
unfortunately, that is for you to do. Only you know what you want to achieve; how
much you want to make, how ripped you want to get, and everything else.
 Week

Once you have your three major missions, you need to break them down into smaller
milestones to be reached weekly. So, if you are a musician and have given yourself a
target of writing 5 songs within a certain number of days, you don’t just want to be
done with 5 songs by the deadline, no, you want to do at least 3 songs before the
middle of the deadline. Break your targets into smaller milestones.

Having a goal for the week will dictate how many hours you need to put to achieve it.
With this information, you will be hitting milestones faster than if you had just given
yourself one long deadline for everything.

Day

The day is the most important part of your journey. You don’t live in weeks, months,
or years, you live day by day. Your best planning is done around the day. That is why
this book is dedicated, and focused mainly around dealing with your day.

You need to break down your missions into their smallest achievable units for the
day. If you are going to write two songs in a week, then you should write the draft of
one song, or get the first half done, even if you are going to edit it later. Of course, I
know that creative work takes time, and that it doesn’t just come off the bat
whenever you want it to. But, you have to get it done, and to do that you have to
make some sort of calculable progress.

Your plan could look something like this:

Write Two Songs This Week

Day 1: 500 words – song one

Day 2 700 words – song two

Day 3 completed – song two
Day 4 completed – song one
Day 5 edited – song one, and two
Day 6 edited – song one, and two
Day 7 edited – song one, and two
You are working with micro milestones daily, but they are still measurable in the
frame of one week.

For setting your daily targets, remember, you don’t have to work on ALL your
missions every day. Some things require more concentration and time, so instead of
working chunks of this in the morning and chunks of that in the afternoon, you can
just dedicate the whole day to one mission. The next day can be for another mission.
However, this is highly dependent on what your missions are. My goals allow me to
work on everything on a day to day basis so I have no issue there. But, you should
also consider the sort of things you are after and whether you can make meaningful
progress if you combine two or three of them in a day.

Put A Deadline On Everything

Once you have put everything in place:

- Listed your three main missions

- Broken them down into weekly milestones
- Broken the weekly milestones into daily goals
- Integrated your daily goals into your day

Next is to deadline everything.

Wait, ahh, if you did everything right then everything already has a deadline.

Record Progress: Recording is a way of introspecting. It is a way of evaluating the

quality of your day. For the record part I have attached a journal to this course that
you will revert to on a daily basis to log in your progress.
 SAMPLE DECISION MAKING TREES

These decision making trees aren’t something you write on a piece of paper for you
to look at whenever you want to make a decision. That would be pretty ludicrous,
but, if you want to do that, go ahead.

What they are meant for is to give you an idea, a pattern of thought to follow in
order to get things done, get back on track, or incorporate discipline when needed.
They are best internalized. That means, they are best in your head, effectively
summoned and altered according to the situation. The most important thing is the
pattern they follow. Learn the pattern of each of them, and internalize each tree.
Once you get the idea of how they work, they simply become a way of thinking for
you. This way of thinking will help in the effective execution of plans, re-evaluation of
situations, and so many other things, including even making purchases.
 Time Management Evaluation

This decision making tree is a model for evaluating how well you’ve managed your
time, the next course of action, and how best to achieve that.

What time of day?

Less than 10 hours since midnight More than 12 hours since midnight

On track? On track?

Yes No No Yes

Good, keep at it. Good, keep at it.

Punishment
required.

Extremes for the

Evaluate the rest of the day.
situation for 10
minutes. Revise
rules for 5
minutes. Attack!
 Distraction Evaluation

This decision making tree is a model for evaluating how well you’ve managed to
evade distractions, the next course of action, and how best to achieve that.

What’s the time?

Is there something you

should have achieved by
now?

Yes No

Did you achieve Get

it?
back
Yes
to
No
work.
Distraction?

No

Yes

Punishment
required.

Get rid of the

distraction.

Extremes for the

rest of the day.
 Accountability and Discipline

This decision making tree is a model for evaluating when disciplinary measures need
to be taken, the next course of action, and how best to achieve that.

Something failed?

Yes No

Was it your
fault? No

Yes YES, it was!

Punishment required.

Extremes for the rest of

the day.
 **BONUS SECTION**

FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT WORKING!

This section is for those who are not working, and would, therefore, have nothing to
put into the ‘work’ time slots. Do not fret, there is always something productive to be
done. Do not say because you are not working now you will, therefore, waste your
life. For you, this is the perfect opportunity to pick a skill you want to develop.

Here are a few things you can pick from, although not all-inclusive, you can always
find something you want to learn:

- Writing music lyrics (aspiring musicians)

- Instrumental productions and development (aspiring DJ, and producers)
- Learn to play an instrument (aspiring musicians)
- Learn to code, and web development
- Learn app development
- Writing (you have to read a lot)
- Social media growth (I recommend Twitter)
- Painting
- Line drawing, or pencil sketching
- Start a blog
- Start an online course
- Start a side hustle

All these can be considered work for you right now. There is no better time to start
learning one of these than now that you have no ‘work.’ It is only a lazy person that
will choose not to engage in something profitable. A lot of local musicians will never
get their big break because they don’t take music seriously. They don’t consider it a
full-time job.
If none of the above-listed appeals, you can always look for what you want to do, or
what skill you want to learn. Learn something relevant, and that goes in line with
your plans. That should be your ‘work.’ Treat it like a full-time job. You should see
significant progress after this project. But, that isn’t where you stop, remember, this
exercise is only the beginning of your journey. It’s only meant to put you on the right
track.

Final Note:

If you found this book helpful, I would greatly appreciate you sharing how it has
impacted you with the Twitter tribe. You can find me at @sanctemalum (EvilSaint) on
Twitter.

Yours,
Evil Saint

Final Note: This guide shall remain open to future revisions, and might evolve – for
the better, as time goes on and new ideas are included to improve the overall quality.