"Waking up before the birds chirp." It has a double meaning. Getting up before the actual birds start chirping. Getting up before the mindless people start making noise.

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The interesting thing about walking off the beaten path or the path laid out for you is that you don't know where the snakes and the mines are. You don't know if you'll step in mud. But if you get to the other side, people are bound to follow.

Self-View Exercise (pt. 3): 1. Look at your second list. 2. On the right side of the page, list out the person who inspires that line item. 3. Ask yourself, "what did they do to become that person?" 4. Write out the actions they took in their life and their motivations. 5. Trade your old habits and behaviors for the habits and behaviors of your role models. 6. Recognize that if you can walk the path of your role models, you'll get closer to finding your path. Then, you will become the person you have always wanted to be.

Self-View Exercise (pt. 2): 1. Take a second sheet of paper. 2. List out how you want to think about yourself. 3. Look at your first list and write a thank you letter to the people who inspired you to become who you are 4. Look at your first list and write a letter to the people who fed you damaging ideas. 5. Ask them "why?" Ask them "what happened?" 6. Imagine that they had someone feeding them damaging ideas as a youth... and forgive them.

Self-View Exercise (pt. 1): 1. Take a sheet of paper 2. Draw a vertical line down the middle of the page 3. On the left side, list the thoughts you have about YOURSELF (list as many as possible) 4. On the right side, write the name of the person you heard each line from 5. Count how many ideas are yours and how many are your parents, friends, and influencers 6. Ask yourself if you belief the idea or not

Waking up at 4:30 am is my way of taking control of my life and thoughts. If I wake before the birds chirp, I give myself a chance to be the first person I hear in the morning. To gather my thoughts, outline my priorities, design who I want to be.

I subscribe to the idea that the quality of your life is determined by the quality of your questions.

Shaan Puri from "My First Million" is a large advocate for being a lazy entrepreneur. It's not about how much you work, it's more about what you work on. Work on significant projects and you will get significant outcomes. Work on little projects, get little outcomes.

Life is an experiment. We constantly focus on the outputs (dependent variables) instead of the inputs (independent variables). Change your inputs and you'll get a new output. Not the other way around. You won't force the same energy and thinking into creating a new consequence unless the laws of nature (the environment) changes.