For When You Finally Decide To Lock In – Alex Hormozi (4K)

Here we are again. Hard things are hard, that's why they're hard.

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Another episode.

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The biggest risk to your future isn't your competition. It's the distractions you insist on keeping in your life rather than doing the things you know you should be doing, but aren't. People delay doing things they don't like for longer than it takes to do them.

There've been so many times in my life where I knew I needed to do something and then I filled all this extra time not doing that thing. And then the moment I did it, I was like, "Wow, that took way less time than I thought it was going to take. And not only that, it took way less time than it took me to delay to actually get to this point." And if I had only started with just doing what I was supposed to do, I could have done four or five other things that I was also supposed to do by this exact same point. And so thinking about it from that perspective, I've tried to eliminate as much time between, "I think I should do this thing," and beginning doing it. And I think you get this positive reinforcement cycle that occurs every time you start, I call it pulling the thread. It's like, I just need to start pulling the thread. And then all of a sudden what feels really unknown becomes very tangible and you're like, "Oh, I understand the six problems I have to solve to do this big thing." But now I know the problems and then it feels like you can tr- you can wrap your arms around it and then you can start taking it one bite at a time.

The same thing works in reverse as well, that when you put something off, it makes putting it off more manana, manana, manana.

I used to define power by the distance between thoughts and reality. Um, meaning if you think about somebody who's omnipotent, so if God or the god-figure would be omnipotent, as he thinks, things are. So there's zero space between thoughts and reality. And so if we want to be more godlike in our lives, the distance that we can shrink between wanting to do something or thinking something should be done, and it being done is a direct indication of our personal power in our lives. And so that has helped me basically think, "Don't be a powerless bitch." (laughs) Like, just shrink the, shrink the gap. And I think that's why a lot of my, my little, like, personal hacks of waking up and then trying to shrink the time between when I wake up and when I start working, and shrinking the time between one task and the next task. Like, you don't need to take 30 minutes of getting ready to start working. Like, you can just start working because as soon as you get into it, you start pulling the thread and you're like, "Oh, here it is." And all of the time that I was getting ready to work, I was just using up my best brain power time on things that truly don't move the needle at all.