Last week I did the implementation of wordpress and the background coding that makes it work.
At 2 hours out of 5, and only the first 20% or so of the implementation, I am going to call this a pretty heavy failure.
The wheel rolled backwards this week.
1. Do not drink on thursdays. If Nick or anyone invites you to anything non-friday / saturday, say NO. Seriously. Just say no... because that was not worth it. Instead of getting myself back on track, this was the excuse to lose the week entirely. No bars on week nights, period.
2. Losing integrity is not an excuse to be reasonable about "all word-given items". Think about what this means!! Would you give your word to someone to do something, and then when the time comes, not do it just because you broke your word to someone else? Can you imagine how someone else would feel if you said, "Sorry man but I've been bad with keeping my word the last few days, so I just said fuck it." WOW!!
If someone said that to me, I would say they can't be relied on for anything. And that's EXACTLY what this troll does to your word -- it completely destroys it.
WHAT A TROLL. This is the "I don't need to follow my word 100% because..." troll.
Good "AKA"s for this could be "The Word Burier" or "The Integrity Destroyer"
This is a direct indicator that you are losing your code and going off the path of success.
This is always a troll, as by my very definition of the word, it transcends the very idea of being justified. It is NEVER okay not to follow your word just because you haven't lately! The ONLY time it's not okay to follow your word is if you have real reason to believe it is irrational, which can usually be tested by the question, "Will I go back and change my word in writing due to this reason?"
Biggest area this troll is beating me up on is the morning ritual.
The morning ritual, at least Monday - Thursday, is THE WORD. It should be followed to a T, 100%, regardless of whether or not you need to take a dump or if you started out off course.
Smoking or watching something or sitting and thinking or dream chasing or WHATEVER is not a reason not to follow the morning ritual. These are ALL trolls. Once you catch one, you have no choice.
It sounds dumb but this morning ritual defines the day and therefore it is destroying you. YOU CANNOT START YOUR DAY WITH FAILURE.
If you go off course, you are likely to stay off course, but ALL word is still in effect, and as soon as you catch yourself "being reasonable", you MUST pull yourself over to your word. Yank yourself into a plank or pushups and only do 10 pushups or 1 minute planks. I don't care how well you do it -- the morning ritual is about defeating your human mind and the trolls as a way of starting your day. If you can't win on something this simple, how can you expect to win during the work day? How do you expect to be entrepreneur material.
I will say that again...
The MORNING RITUAL is about starting the day as a big person by beating back the trolls & small-size habits right away. You cannot expect to be an ENTREPRENEUR if you can't even start your day powerfully.
And by setting a strong context every day, you will find you stay on track more throughout the day and get back on course quickly if you fail a day in the middle of the week.
Here's some new updates to my word (this is OFFICIALLY my new "choice")
-The word on morning ritual is this:
1. I will not snooze, I will not hesitate, and I will do every item on the checklist as it is listed, regardless of what other obsticles arrise.
-And here's a new choice I give my word to:
2. Any morning I fail my word, I will set the "morning ritual failed" Alarm, which will remind me at night to review this page. When the alarm goes off, I will review this very page.
At the end of the day -- any failure of word is OKAY as long as it's a one time thing, and best to be learned from. As long as it becomes in the past and you go for integrity the next time, you'll be fine. But if you don't understand deeply that failures cannot be allowed to stack -- that the futher you get from your word, the worse off you will be -- do not expect to be successful in life. This is essentially "the pulse of success"... you cannot ignore one failure after another the same way you can't ignore one missing heartbeat after another. You must understand, and uphold, this concept on a very deep level and very thoroughly.
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