The sheer amount of information available to anyone nowadays is appalling.

Your primitive brain, equipped well for the trials of survival in nature, is at a disadvantage.

It cannot cope with the amount of stimulus. It doesn’t know how to respond. Your mind, the catalyst of your conscious self, can no longer keep up with the demand.

As a result, our distractions become the drivers of our lives.

Instead you must refocus. You must recommit to the principled idea of intense discipline. You must force yourself to behave in a way that will get you from where you are to where you want to be.

Behaviors are action and action is king. [Read more…]