00:00 Intro
00:44 You Can't Live The Life You Want By Fitting It In The Cracks
01:45 Universal Principles
03:23 Self Sabotage from being symptom oriented
05:48 Creating Cohesion in your life
07:52 Start small but don't stay small
09:19 Ratios of action can have enormous impacts on your successes or failures
11:27 Frequency fosters focus
12:15 Get Rich Slowly and where we started out financially; our ruthless adherence to our plan
16:56 It's not 80% diet and 20% working out, it's 100% buy-in to living a healthier life
21:11 If there's something that's important to you, it's worth setting up the proper structures - including surrounding yourself with the right people
25:33 The Power Of Association: What does support *really* mean?
30:11 It doesn't have to be a "no", it could be a "not now" as a valuable tool for focus- Tim Ferriss
32:36 Making a change with the same people can be very difficult (if not impossible)
35:45 One objective can (and likely will) spill over into other areas of your life
38:53 One benefit of indulging less often is that you can go big when you do!
40:44 The best way to build self-discipline is to build structures so that you don't need it
48:07 Instead of developing "self-discipline" try action combined with gratitude and a sense of wonder (all of these things can be developed as skills)
51:23 Is your life one big chore with little bits of escape? You get to design your life.
57:42 Develop keystone practices that carryover to all aspects of your life
59:08 Self-efficacy comes as a result of your belief in your own capabilities
1:00:18 LIVE ALL YOUR LIFE!
1:08:07 Stuart Smally, funny, but there is an effective way to use daily affirmations
1:12:31 Wrapping up: To live a richer life, allow your goals to become part of your identity- Live all you life!
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