5 Captivating Habits That Will Power-Up Your Brain

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You are excited about a book you observed.

You’re feeling the vibe on the air by looking into your friend’s eyes. They are mind-blown with the power of your description.

You finished an emotional presentation. The body language, facial expressions, and moist eyes convinced everyone.

Ten friends were there that day. Ten human beings were watching and hearing the exciting summary of the book.

A few months later, all ten friends were together again. You assumed everyone read the book.

Yet, only one of your friends bought and read the entire book. You thought to yourself: why did that happen? It’s easy to buy a book. Even easier to borrow. This book is in story form. That was why you suggested all of them read it because it was an elementary and readable volume.

So, if it’s easy to buy, easy to borrow, and easy to read, why wouldn’t everybody get it? You don’t know. You think nobody knows. Some do, and some don’t. At least you understand one thing. 90% don’t or won’t.

You don’t know the mystery of that. Secrets of the mind, you say to yourself. One thing you know. Ten years from now, the numbers will be the same. You know why? Because it’s easy to do, but it’s also easy not to do.

That day, you understood the lesson.

You understood another lesson that day. Even if the book were free in a library, 9 out of 10 of your friends wouldn’t get it. Even with a free library card. Even so, they wouldn’t go. Why? Because it’s easy to do, but it’s also easy not to do.

Ten years from now, the faces would be different, but the number will be the same. 90% will not go for the book. That’s the way things are — mysteries of the mind.

In the United States of America, 3% of the population have a library card. Why?

You already know the answer.

1. Don’t Just Plant a Tree, Plant an Orchard.

The sowing and reaping law explains that we must keep sowing, even when the birds come to eat the seeds. We must keep sowing so that there aren’t enough birds to eat all the seeds you planted.

Then, finally, you can start reaping.

It’s never a right-now thing, also in writing. You have to keep sowing the articles, regardless of all the birds that will eat your seeds. And believe me, the birds will always be there to eat some of your seeds. It’s a millennial truth. You have only one way to go. Keep sowing. Keep writing.

Sometimes even your head starts to push you back. The little devil sitting on your shoulder begins to discourage you on your path. That’s the birds I talked to you about. You have to write so many words, so many phrases, so many articles that the birds can never reach the end of the road.

You can write with quality, besides quantity. Keep sowing like one of the central principles in life tells us to do. And you’ll accomplish your goals because you believed in the doctrine of sowing and reaping.

2. Beginning With the End In Mind

J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter’s creator, spend seven years planning the launch of the first book. Seven years.

How different might Harry Potter have been if Rowling started the book without any intentions or plans beyond the first book? Yet, by “beginning with the end in mind,” Rowling was able to direct and position the first book much differently. — Benjamin Hardy, PhD

By writing the book as a means to an end, Rowling invited the readers to buy the next book. By having a long-term perspective, Harry Potter’s books were always mean to an end. The importance of a long-term perspective, as a writer, makes you have the same message. Over and over. But you can’t reveal it all at the same time, in the same piece.

As you keep writing about a theme, you find new and different perspectives. You can always explain, by alternative suggestions, the same intrinsic message. Look how Ayodeji Awosika does with his themes. They are few, but they make a difference. Ayo can always surprise us with different perspectives. And most often takes us on a journey through the same questions he has but gives us new insights we never thought of.

3. Never Having a Long-Term Plan

People usually haven’t got their brains wired to handle prolonged uncertainty. It’s genetic and tough to ‘manipulate’ it by ourselves.

You can control uncertainty by planning a long-term perspective of your life. By planning, you are designing in your mind a strong possibility for things to happen. Writing it in a notebook, you are empowering yourself against uncertainty.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.- Peter Thiel

You design goals to reach the ends, but the design is a mean. Did you know that only 8% of people go on to do their New Years Resolutions? In a hundred people you know, only eight achieve their resolutions.

So, it’s a rare thing. There’s why you see so few writers reach a top writer achievement. But it’s so easy to do. Then why only 8% do? It’s easy to do. But it’s also easy not to do.

Remember the birds? The birds will always eat some of the seeds.

4. If You Really Want, You Make It Happen

Set your 1,3,5 year goal. Please don’t argue with me.

What do you want to do(be) 5 years from now? Because if you don’t plan your long-term goals, things will play differently for you.

If you’re interested, you come up with stories, excuses, reasons, and circumstances about why you can’t or why you won’t. If you’re committed, those go out the window. You do whatever it takes.- John Assaraf

When you plan a long-term project for your life, things will not happen as you planned. Different constraints will occur that will force you to go more to the right or more to the left.

Designing your journey. Redesign the roads you want to the walkthrough. And you’ll enter into a completely different game. You start belonging to the 6.2% who did it.

You have to start playing the game.

5. Hurt Me With The Truth But Never Comfort Me With a Lie

The truth is that very few people desire responsibility.

It’s much easier to blame your parents, city, friends, country, or dog. You can keep blaming whomever you want. Lie to yourself, saying you don’t have control of your life.

Yet, that’s a lie.

If you’re reading this article, it’s because you clicked the link. It’s because you want to know about the 5 Disruptive Habits, don’t you? Here’s the proof. You can, and you are already taking control of your life. That’s the truth.

Jim Rohn said:

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Final Thought

The power of choice. Somehow the power of choice is the ultimate power of freedom. Don’t let an outsider take control of your life. He or she doesn’t know you.

Benjamin Hardy, Ph.D. recently explained the 3 R’s that make the power of choice:

• the right of choice;
• the responsibility to choose;
• the results of choice.

I couldn’t conclude better than Hardy:

When you take responsibility for your choices, you realize there is no neutral ground. Every decision you make has inherent meaning and consequence.

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