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Oh yeah.. It's about to get real..

I am making this thread because I personally believe every person (myself included) struggles with consistency and accountability.

Therefore, this thread will be for members of the forum to stay accountable and consistent through tracking whatever metrics they want about themselves and/or their business ON A CONSISTENT BASIS.

Why is this important? Because consistency is everything. If you want to be rich and successful, first you must master consistency before anything else will happen. It is what separates the men from the boys. It is your gateway into the promised land.

First, some ground rules:

  1. You can track and post anything you want, the purpose of this is not to track any specific thing. The purpose of this is to get consistent on one or multiple things so that it bleeds over into the rest of your life.
  2. Absolutely zero excuse posts here on why you cannot track a single stat about yourself because of xyz. You have a computer, the internet, and arms/legs, there are no excuses.
  3. If you start posting stats in the thread, you must continue posting stats every single day here or post your entire weeks stats one time per week. I will lead and can assure you, i will get my stats in here every day or every week.
  4. If you have ugly stats, or your consistency of follow through in your stats breakdown, TRACK IT AND POST IT. Being open and honest will help you become more consistent. Maybe your actions are not consistent, that is ok.. Your postings here though need to be consistent about not being consistent.

Finally, here are some mechanics that may help you start and manage your stats/metrics (this is how I do it):

  1. Keep everything in Google Sheets on a single tab
  2. Keep that Google Sheet open in your browser at all times and keep it open day to day so you never forget about it
  3. Add Google Sheets to your phone so you can record/edit things in real time
  4. To get your stats from Google Sheets to the Forum simple press ctrl C and then ctrl V to copy and paste from Google Sheets to this thread

Here a sample of my 2019 base stats that i track almost every day from (6/1 to 7/16):

Elevation
Wakeup TimeReadingMeditationFastingFoodWeightBody FatBMIAcetoneStairsMaskWeight VestRunningLunges
06/01/2019 - Sat4 x 13 stories
06/03/2019 - Mon18 Hours2 x 10 stories
06/04/2019 - Tue16 Hours
06/05/2019 - Wed20 Hours2 x 10 stories
06/06/2019 - Thur14 HoursKeto Start
06/07/2019 - Fri1 hour
06/08/2019 - Sat4 x 13 stories
06/10/2019 - Mon4:45 AM2 Hour15 Min18 Hours2 x 10 stories
06/11/2019 - Tue5:02 AM30 Min11 Min18 Hours2 x 10 stories
06/12/2019 - Wed7:10 AM1 Hour15 Min17 Hours7.9 PPM2 x 10 stories
06/13/2019 - Thur5:20 AM1 Hour15 Min10 PPM
06/14/2019 - Fri5:15 AM15 Min
06/15/2019 - Sat1 Hour15 Min3 x 13 stories
06/17/2019 - Mon5:05 AM1 Hour15 Min36 hours215 lbs20.20%2 x 10 stories
06/18/2019 - Tue6:15 AM1 Hour15 Min2 x 10 stories
06/19/2019 - Wed7:15 AM15 Min6.3 PPM1 x 10 stories
06/20/2019 - Thur5:15 AM15 Min18 hours2 x 10 stories
06/21/2019 - Fri7:30 AM15 Min18 hours2 hours
06/22/2019 - Sat8:45 AM15 Min5 x 13 stories
06/24/2019 - Mon4:15 AM15 Min18 hours4 x 13 stories
06/25/2019 - Tue6:45 AM15 Min18 hours
06/26/2019 - Wed4:15 AM1 Hour15 Min18 hours16 PPM
06/27/2019 - Thur5:15 AM5 x 13 stories
06/28/2019 - Fri6:00 AM15 Min2 hours
06/29/2019 - Sat7:00 AM15 Min6 x 13 stories
07/01/2019 - Mon4:00 AM15 Min18 hours11 x 10 stories
07/02/2019 - Tue6:00 AM15 Min18 hours5 x 11 stories
07/03/2019 - Wed3:00 AM15 Min14 hours6.1 PPM5 x 11 stories1,000 ft
07/04/2019 - Thur7:00 AM25 lbs2 hours
07/05/2019 - Fri8:00 AM15 Min
07/06/2019 - Sat7:00 AM6 x 12 stories25 lbs
07/08/2019 - Mon6:30 AM15 Min18 hours5 x 11 stories2,000 ft5 x 25 lbs
07/09/2019 - Tue5:15 AM18 hours11 x 11 stories5 x 25 lbs
07/10/2019 - Wed7:50 AM18 hours203.5 lbs9.7 PPM11 x 11 stories5 x 25 lbs
07/11/2019 - Thur5:15 AM15 Min202.8 lbs25 lbs2 hours4 x 25 steps
07/12/2019 - Fri4:15 AM30 Min203.8 lbs14.60%26.4
07/13/2019 - Sat5:15 AM30 Min201.2 lbs13.70%25.3
07/15/2019 - Mon5:50 AM15 Min18 hours203.4 lbs14.00%25.612 x 11 stories5 x 25 lbs
07/16/2019 - Tue3:30 AM18 hours202.2 lbs13.80%25.415 x 11 stories6,000 ft6 x 25 lbs
 
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8 calls today ... this is more difficult and time consuming than I thought.

You have to break the process into stages because if you only judge yourself and make calls based on number of full length calls you will burn out quick.

A proper goal when starting is: "I will make 50-100 calls today and my target improvement is to connect with 15 decision makers for 5-10 minutes and close 10 of them on their email address and follow up call the next day. Last week my numbers(I bet you're not tracking your numbers yet, create a google sheet right meow) were 10 decision makers for 100 calls and i spoke with them for 4.375 minutes on average. 5 gave me their email address and setup a time to speak the next day."

Now you can track progress and gain momentum and confidence as your numbers quickly go up day to day, week to week, month to month. Since i have started my numbers have rarely declined but if i did not track every single detail I would have no clue if i am up down or sideways. By the time it would be reflected in my bank account it would have been to late to do anything.
 

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For those of you tracking this way, 2 notable things here.

#1 Watch out for recording/tracking fatigue. This is something that will grind your progress to a halt trying to be too granular, too often. Make sure you are hitting the biggest points, not everything you do. You also have to watch out for your bad days where you don't track or forget, it can get you off pattern and also blow progress.

#2 is Pain vs pleasure, part of Accountability is about re-balancing the pain vs pleasure of doing new habits. If there is nothing painful about not tracking things daily, or you don't have an outcome or measure of success by tracking this granular, stop now and figure it out. You have to drive towards an outcome and realize that success to set it in long term... otherwise it'll fizzle out over time.
 

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Soooo... nobody’s commenting on this even though a lot of us need accountability.

I’m assuming you started this because you care about people. You were very honest when you helped me.. but not rude in any way.

Would you like some feedback from ppl about why they aren’t commenting?

Nope, I couldn't care less if not a single person ever comments or does anything on this thread. I'll just continue on posting every day as normal.

Nothing in this thread was done by myself just to start this thread. I am simply showing how I track progression and stay consistent.

Ps. The forum typically is slower in the summer months I find so that might have something to do with it.
 
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I've been thinking the last few days about what my goal here should be. I'm only going to track one metric: 20 calls dialed to relevant prospects per day. There's detail that I could provide with that, but in the spirit of this thread, I'm not going to. That's the only metric I care about in my business right now.

20 calls per day.

Apologies in advance because I'm going to post my # of calls each day. I'll summarize actual results every friday. After a month, I'll reevaluate things and make adjustments as needed.

Thanks for the kick in the butt...
 
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Consistency is the hardest and biggest issue i have. Someone holding accountable can push me.

Just having eyeballs on what you are tracking makes a huge difference, its a psychological trick. You are tricking yourself to being accountable to the unknown viewers of this thread with keeping up with your tracking which in turn makes you much more consistent and your progression will speed up dramatically.

I think a lot of people will not participate because they think others will pass judgement on them within the thread, again, this is a backwards psychological trick and a rationalization for not taking action when the truth is, no one is going to say anything.
 

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Alright, first check-in. My goal is to see a lot of green in the first section. Those are the core habits I want to put in place.

The 2nd part is more of tracking. For that part:
- I want to track my deep work hours. But still not sure how to identify what a deep hour is.
- the talking to one stranger thing is an out of comfort zone challenge.

First check in.png


I have added movement in my morning routine. About 15 min after I wake up. And it does wonder. For those interested, I am using this:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whrrFwXEQtY&list=PLC2Dhruowecr73AL26S3ySt0-uOlL0C_Q&index=8&t=0s


Much harder than you think. And really wakes me up.
 

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I am in.
@Rabby tagging you so you too can be accountable for me.

I will post at-least every week.

DateWakeup TimeRunningMeditationReadingPrayerFoodProspectingTodo List task completion
7/22/20196:00 AM2.5 km 10 min20 min1 timeNoneYes
7/23/2019
7/24/2019
7/25/2019
7/26/2019
7/27/2019
7/28/2019
 

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Here is my week in review 7/22/19 - 7/25/19:

WriteElevation
Wakeup TimeReadingMeditationGoalsFastingFoodWeightBody FatBMIAcetoneStairsMaskWeight Vest
07/22/2019 - Mon3:30 AM15 Mindone18 hours202.2 lbs13.80%25.406 x 12 stories6 x 25 lbs
07/23/2019 - Tue3:00 AM15 Mindone18 hours200.2 lbs13.70%25.20
07/24/2019 - Wed8:00 AM18 hours199.4 lbs13.60%25.10
07/25/2019 - Thur7:00 AM15 Mindone201.6 lbs13.80%25.30
07/25/2019 - Fri6:00 AM15 Mindone200.2 lbs13.70%25.20



I will be MIA for the next three weeks, I am burnt out and ready for a break. For myself, i typically burn out every 6 months or so and require at least one week outside of the city doing next to nothing.

This is my rest cycle and I recommend it for everyone here. After 6 months of consistency, take at least one week off to rest and recoup. However, this one week off does not include eating KFC big buckets and partying with strippers..
 

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Here are my gym rack stats for the same period (6/1 to 7/16):

Sets x Reps
Bent R BentStandFN ShoulderBN ShoulderTricepNarrow
Flat BenchIncline BenchDeadliftOver Row Over RowSL DeadliftReg SquatFront SquatCalve RaisePressPressReg CurlsWide CurlsNarrow CurlsReverse Curls Extension Bench
06/01/2019 - Sat
06/03/2019 - Mon5 x 125 x 125 x 12
06/04/2019 - Tue5 x 125 x 123 x 123 x 123 x 12
06/05/2019 - Wed3 x 123 x 103 x 20
06/06/2019 - Thur
06/07/2019 - Fri
06/08/2019 - Sat
06/10/2019 - Mon5 x 53 x 83 x 8
06/11/2019 - Tue3 x 153 x 153 x 155 x 104 x 10
06/12/2019 - Wed5 x 155 x 25
06/13/2019 - Thur
06/14/2019 - Fri
06/15/2019 - Sat
06/17/2019 - Mon
06/18/2019 - Tue5 x 18 + 2 drop5 x 10
06/19/2019 - Wed3 x 3 + 1rm3 x 3+1dropfail3 x 3+1dropfail
06/20/2019 - Thur3 x 3+1dropfail3 x 3+1dropfail3 x 3+1dropfail
06/21/2019 - Fri
06/22/2019 - Sat
06/24/2019 - Mon3 x 3 + 1rm5 x 10
06/25/2019 - Tue3 x 3+2dropfail3 x 3+1dropfail
06/26/2019 - Wed3 x 183 x 181 x 183 x 18
06/27/2019 - Thur
06/28/2019 - Fri
06/29/2019 - Sat
07/01/2019 - Mon5 x 5+1fail
07/02/2019 - Tue
07/03/2019 - Wed6x12+1fail7 x 12+1fail4 x 124 x 12
07/04/2019 - Thur
07/05/2019 - Fri
07/06/2019 - Sat
07/08/2019 - Mon5 x 5
07/09/2019 - Tue5 x 5
07/10/2019 - Wed5 x 55 x 12
07/11/2019 - Thur
07/12/2019 - Fri
07/13/2019 - Sat
07/15/2019 - Mon5 x 5 5 x 5
07/16/2019 - Tue5 x 125 x 12
 

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Also attached here is an Excel of my complete 2019 stats which includes the above information.
 

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Jet lag never gets easier that's for sure.. Anyway, finally getting caught up and back in the groove, will post my week here on Saturday.

Ps. Anyone that started this and hasn't followed through, that is why you are poor. Poor in money, health, and happiness. You commit with your mouth but not with yourself.

Great work to those that have stayed committed, this is your first step toward momentum, confidence, and a better life!
 

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I've been thinking the last few days about what my goal here should be. I'm only going to track one metric: 20 calls dialed to relevant prospects per day. There's detail that I could provide with that, but in the spirit of this thread, I'm not going to. That's the only metric I care about in my business right now.

20 calls per day.

Apologies in advance because I'm going to post my # of calls each day. I'll summarize actual results every friday. After a month, I'll reevaluate things and make adjustments as needed.

Thanks for the kick in the butt...
View: https://youtu.be/HUwKEoi3gQg
 

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This thread is just pure gold about why some people make it and some don't.

I said I was going to start with this, got everything setup and never really executed. This is probably a major reason for some of my failures.

Just food for thought. I will be reporting this week on friday.
 

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Soooo... nobody’s commenting on this even though a lot of us need accountability.

I’m assuming you started this because you care about people. You were very honest when you helped me.. but not rude in any way.

Would you like some feedback from ppl about why they aren’t commenting?
 

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I am watching this on the side @Primeperiwinkle .

In fact am tracking my wake up time right now. Goal is to move to 4.15. Failed the while week. Woke up around 5.50 ish on average.

Once I manage to do it consistently, I will stack something else.

@458 why not using a habit tracking app?

It takes 30 seconds per day for me to update and review everything I want to track and how i want to track it in Google Sheets. No habit tracking app is going to be able to provide what Google Sheets can.
 

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Q3 Summary

I somehow managed to delete the file where I kept this. This week I worked a few hours more on building my business. More than previous weeks.

Anyway, time for the summary.

Thanks to this thread, I got the following results:

FITNESS:
From none to Mon-Fri regularly at it. Attitude change: Instead of finding excuses, such as injuries, I found a way to work around them. I'll be at the gym even if it's not as intense as I'd like it to. Results still show. In the mirror. In the attitude.

WAKE UP TIME:
From completely random to 05:00am without clock.

DIET:
From eat whatever to eating pretty healthy and tasty food most of the time. Not ideal nor do I care. Attitude change: I now enjoy preparing my own food, and don't mind washing dishes at all. It used to be something that I don't like. Now I simply do it, and don't attach feelings to it. Too irrelevant to like or dislike.

BUSINESS:
Finally started working on my new website, new offer. Postponed this for way too long as I always had important enough work to allow myself to gracefully dance around actually growing my business. In Q4 I'll have a fixed time slot for this, Mon-Fri.


To other posters:

I'm kinda skimpy on likes, but I root for y'all. Not that I'm successful enough to give any advice, but I'm really glad I at least kept consistent in just posting my updates in this thread.

It made me start to address issues in my life, so that I can start working on my business, so that I stop looking like an idiot on this forum which feels like home, and like an extended family.
 
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weekly goal met: no but..
created weekly plan: yes
done weekly review: yes
Task​
Sa​
Interruption​
sleep​
sleep​
sleep​
sleep​
Fr​
*cold shower​
x​
x​
interruption​
r​
* hygiene​
forgot​
* sport except Sunday​
planned for the next day​
x​
x​
interruption​
* reading book, meditating, gratitude
x​
* meditation in full​
no time​
journaling​
x​
interruption​
tracked time where you've done nothing​
x​
daily goal reached​
no definite goal​
no​
* out of bed at 6.30 at the latest​
8.30​
8.30​
*done nothing the last half hour or went to bed?​
no time​
milestone reached​
followed schedule​
no​
wrote down daily goal​
x​
x​
adapted your expectancy for the next day​
no​
x​
used algorithms properly​
x​
ventilation​
forgot​
forgot​
reason why you didn't adhere to the schedule​
came back to late​
interruption​
checklist worksessions?​
x​
occupied with the right thoughts​
halfway​
Cremes​
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Rather bad week. Had sleeping problems and postponed to track activities until I forgot what I actually did and what I didn't.
To counteract my increasing sloppiness, I return to my usual scheme where I have to pay 100 € if I neglect to track my activities or fail to perform a star activity (unless I forgot about it or something with higher priority took precedence..) for the next 30 days. Also all kinds of other obligations that I fail if I deem that I hadn't a good reason to neglect them.


Great work man! I like how diligently you're tracking it all. Commendable! I'm working on my systems for 2020 right now and playing with different ideas when it comes to tracking my daily practices.

One idea came to my mind when I saw your table, and I figured it could help: the "no time" entry comes up frequently. Which I understand to mean you weren't able to perform it. For some reason. The entry "no time" can be misleading, in the sense that your table might be a better long-term indicator of patterns to you if you can be more accurate.

One practice for being more accountable with yourself is to write what you did instead of what you had planned. It can be as simple as a couple of sentences in your journal at the end of the day. It might have simply been because you ran out of time, but it's interesting when you force yourself to write your alibi on paper, if there were a hidden excuse, it would be more likely to become evident. We're more honest with ourselves when we write, I find.

A unique entry for every item on your list might take a long time, perhaps you could focus on a few of your high-graded practices.

Keep up the good work!
Thanks man! Giving more concrete justifications seems like a good idea. I already tried something similiar with the "reason why you didn't adhere to the schedule" entry. I will try to be more explicit in other entries as well.
Good luck with your planning! I intend to further work on my systems for 2020 as well, but at this point I guess I should focus more on getting actual work done lol
 

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I am watching this on the side @Primeperiwinkle .

In fact am tracking my wake up time right now. Goal is to move to 4.15. Failed the while week. Woke up around 5.50 ish on average.

Once I manage to do it consistently, I will stack something else.

@458 why not using a habit tracking app?
 

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Well.. No progress today.. No bullshit excuses.
Will try to do better tomorrow.
Wakeup TimeReadingFoodBed timeWorkCleaningRunningVaisselleMzGym
19/07/2019 ven.12h2710 pages4h30NO 45NOShoulder day
20/07/2019 sam.6h1410 pages 00h30OUIWalk 45OUIOUIArms day
21/07/2019 dim.12h3010 pages 23h37NOWalk+45OUIBack Day
22/07/2019 lun.12H4010 pages3h19NOWalk 45 NOLeg day
23/07/2019 mar.12h0610 pages 2h46YES Walk 45x2YES Chest day
24/07/2019 mer.
 

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I don't know what happened to me but since last month i am not able to sleep properly when i go to bed. Back side of my head starts aching. Last 2 days, i went to bed at 10 PM but was not able to sleep till 1-2 AM. Need to see doctor.

DateWakeup TimeRunningMeditationReadingExercisePrayerFoodProspectingHustle Hours
7/22/20196:00 AM2.5 km 10 min20 minYes1 timeNoneYes
7/23/20199:00 AM02 min20 min+Yes0NoneSome
7/24/20196:00 AM2 km5 min20 minYes0NoneSome
7/25/20199:00 AM05 min20 minYes0None1 hour
7/26/20199:00 AM00 min20 minNo0None1 hour
 

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@S.Y. Do you manually change colors on your spreadsheet or use some sort of formula for it to change automatically?

I use conditionnal formating to change the color.

For yes/no activities, I enter y or n
- if I put y it becomes green
- if I put n then it colors no

So technically what you see in green is y. The trick is to set the same color for thefont color and the fill.
 
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@LightHouse - I have a question to your #2 point. Do you mean that you should imagine yourself a goal/result which you will likely receive after following x number of days your habit?
And how do you implement not tracking as an painful experience?
Thanks for your post.


What would be an example of pain if you fail to track? I've been trying to create a good feedback loop and create simple systems. For example, now, I don't have a goal to lose weight, and I don't track my weight. Instead, I have a system to go to the gym every day, and I still need to come up with a simple eat healthy system.

Today I failed to go to the gym.

I had the gym bag pre-packed and my shoes next to my bed. I removed the barriers, but still ended up laying in bed instead of going to the gym. I don't even dislike the gym. I actually like it. So, I need to add pain for failure, but haven't figured that out. Anyone have an example?

Sure, thanks to both of you for the great question. Attaching pain is different for everyone, you have to try different methods, but they all start the same, you have to identify the reason you are doing something first. Once you have that...

What is at stake if you DON'T do it?

Let's use the gym example. There are two primary reasons one goes to the gym, health and vanity (not a negative thing).

So once you identify which it is in your mind (and honestly for the gym, once you start going and see how it sets you up day to day physically and mentally your body takes the habit over, vs your mind and will power anyway) ... you can figure out what's at stake if you do not.

Trying to improve your look to get a significant other, if you don't go, you are no closer to that goal then when you started, you will be a fat loser sitting on the couch letting life fly by in no time! Sweet right? That's the guy/girl you've always dreamed of being right?

Let's use social leverage here too... what do your friends, family, potential mates think and say about you? Are you just the fat guy sitting around not doing shit in life? That sounds like the type of dude everyone wants to date!

@G-Man Keep in mind I am not talking about you here, just using your example .

On top of that, once you have your reasons and what's at stake, you can set up with a friend or even web apps that use escrow to increase the pain, You miss the gym today? send $100 to a competitor via a buy, or an opposing political party, or Scientology , or whatever it is that you don't want to win in life.... because let's face it, if you aren't trying to beat them everyday, you are helping them anyway so might as well speed it up right?

This is the foam on the latte in terms of strategies and tactics, part of the reason I do this as a coach is because I tailor fit it to each client. That being said, if you are committed to the process, find a few methods that you think might work, and start .... literally today.

The reason this is the only bold part of this post, if you leave the site of a plan without taking action, you already started failing it.

@G-Man you know what this means for you.... get that $100 out and send it off. I bet you wont miss the gym the rest of the week.


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I'm starting with low expectations but everybody has to start somewhere haha

Wanted to bring something up here specifically, your target "talking to pretty girls" What does that do for you long term? what is the ultimate goal there and is that the best use of your time to accomplish it? (no right or wrong answer here)
 
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Starting Week 2 now:
Pretty happy overall with how today went. Was able to limit distractions and finished two business tasks that I had been putting off.
Goals for this week:
-Begin waking up at 5:00 am and putting in an extra 1.5 hours of work on my business before my job starts.
-Meditate every day this week for at least 10 minutes.

DateWake up TimeBed TimeReadingWorkoutMeditation Time wasted on YouTube + Social mediaBusinessTo Do List CompleteVisualization / Big Picture Review
7/29/2019 - Mon6:359:3020 minsLegs10 mins12 minsBiz - 2.5 hoursYES15 mins
 
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This week was better than it looks.

I improved my diet and my sleep schedule.
Started morning walks, hopefully to turn into workouts soon.

I think I'll finally improve my consistency in working on a business next week.
 

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