TOOLS OF TITANS
TOOLS OF TITANS Habits From Successful People
This past week, I picked up Tim Ferriss’ new book, Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. In this article, I’ ve chosen to feature the habits of a few amazing people that are highlighted in Tim’ s book. Let’ s dive right in!
MORNING PRIMING( TONY ROBBINS) Tony Robbins introduced to me to morning priming years ago, and it has become a staple of my morning routine ever since. Upon waking, Tony immediately goes into his priming routine, which is intended to produce a rapid change in his psychology and physiology. Tony says,“ To me, if you want a prime time life, you’ ve got to prime daily.” Priming with Tony’ s method only takes around ten minutes. Here are the three steps:
1. Expressing Gratitude( three minutes): Tony describes this step as“ feeling totally grateful for three things. I make sure that one of them is very, very simple: the wind on my face, the reflection of the clouds that I just saw. But don’ t just think gratitude. I let the gratitude fill my soul. It’ s impossible to be angry and grateful simultaneously. When you’ re grateful, there is no fear.”
2. Spiritual Exercise( three minutes): Tony describes this step as“ total focus on feeling the inner presence coming in, and feeling it heal everything in my body, in my mind, my emotions, my relationships, my finances. I see it as solving anything that needs to be solved. I experience the strengthening of my gratitude, of my conviction, of my passion ….”
3. Three to Thrive( three minutes): Tony describes this final step as“ focusing on three things that I’ m going to make happen, my‘ three to thrive.’ … See it as though it’ s already been done, feel the emotions, etc.”
GIVE THE MIND AN OVERNIGHT TASK( REID HOFFMAN) Reid Hoffman jots down problems in a notebook that he wants his mind to work on overnight. This helps him ruminate over different ideas in his subconscious so he can start his next day primed with solutions. It was Thomas Edison
“ NEVER GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT A REQUEST TO YOUR SUBCONSCIOUS.”- THOMAS EDISON
who said,“ Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.”
Here is Reid speaking on his tactic:“ What are the kinds of key things that might be constraints on a solution, or might be the attributes of a solution, and what are tools or assets I might have? … I actually think most of our thinking, of course, is subconscious. Part of what I’ m trying to do is allow the fact that we have this kind of relaxation, [ this ] rejuvenation period in sleeping, to essentially possibly bubble up the thoughts and solutions to [ problems ].”
TO CREATE SOMETHING GREAT, START EXTREMELY SMALL( SETH GODIN) Seth Godin has authored eighteen bestselling books on marketing, strategic communication, and the way ideas spread. His ideas on“ starting small to go big” have impacted me across all my organizations and companies.
Says Seth:“ My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What’ s the smallest possible footprint I can get away with? What is the smallest possible project that is worth my time? What is the smallest group of people who I could make a difference for, or to? Because smallest is achievable, I want to encourage people […] to look for the small. To be on one medium in a place where people can find you. To have one sort of interaction with one tribe, with one group, where you don’ t have a lot of lifeboats.”
Here’ s a quick summary of the key takeaways: Prime every morning, don’ t wait to do whatever you want to do with your life, do it now and do it with strong convictions( loosely held), set your mind to work on that goal while you sleep, and start with a small objective. u
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Dr. Peter H. Diamandis is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. In 2014 he was named one of“ The World’ s 50 Greatest Leaders” – by Fortune Magazine.
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