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About three years ago I realized my life was f*cked.

I caught the love of my life at the time trying to cheat on me.

I was $30,000 in debt between student loans and car payments.

I was stress eating so much my mother would joke that I looked pregnant.

But the day I knew I had a problem was when I woke up and realized I was sad that I didn’t die in my sleep.

Fast forward to today —

I’m in a happy, healthy relationship, the type I’ve always wanted.

I not only don’t have any debt, but I’ve managed to stash away about $100,000 over the last three years.

And while I won’t be modeling for Gentlemen’s Quarterly anytime soon, I love the way I look in the mirror.

If you’d like to get some of these outcomes for yourself, here are the habits that took my life from fcked to unfucked, in less than three years.

1. Join a f*cking gym, and go regularly.

What happens to a dog when you don’t take it for a walk?

It get’s angry and constantly destroys things.

It becomes overweight and develops health problems.

It can even get depressed.

Here’s the thing though, as adults we often forget this simple truth:

HUMANS ARE ANIMALS.

Just like a dog will become unhealthy, unruly, and unhappy without exercise…

So will you.

I avoided the gym like the plague until it was literally my last option to get my life together.

I started barely going for 30 minutes a day every other day.

Then eventually I started looking for routines to build muscle.

Then I started asking the big guys in my gym for advice.

Then eventually I started building a body I enjoyed looking at in the mirror.

Not only did working out give me more energy but it raised my self esteem, improved my health, and even my dating life.

If you take anything from this article let it be:

JOIN A F*cking GYM.

Read this when you’re ready to get started:
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Then once it gets easy — GO HARD.

2: Enroll in University On Wheels

How rich would you be if you had Warren Buffet as your financial advisor?

How good would your cooking be if you had Gordon Ramsey as your personal cooking coach?

How would your relationships be if you had a therapist constantly whispering in your ear how to respond to your partner?

Your life would probably improve quite a bit eh?

Well guess what.

You can.

By consuming the books they’ve written.

“But TLOM I don’t have time to read, I’m too busy.”

I gotchu, I felt the same way.

That’s why I decided to make one tiny change that rerouted the course of my life.

I replaced music in the car, with audiobooks.

One audiobook alone, the Automatic Millionaire, resulted in my saving literally $130,000 over the course of five years that continues to grow to this day.

The Willpower Instinct Audiobook taught me how to become disciplined.

The slight edge taught me how to make smarter choices.

How To Not Die Alone helped me find a girlfriend.

And on and on.

3.All by switching on audible, instead of Spotify on my drives to and from work.

That’s it.

If you don’t know which book to get started with, trust me you’ll want to start with this:

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How effective is a treadmill at causing people to lose weight?

Depends on how often you use it.

The same applies to knowledge.

Just because you own the knowledge, like the treadmill, nothing will happen.

When I started college I read dozens of books on socializing but even after a year of reading I’d hardly made any new friends or achieved my intended goal of finding a romantic relationship.

Why?

Because I thought:
Reading = Achievement.

The correct formula is:
Reading + Frequent Application = Achievement.

I’ve found personally that if I don’t apply something within 72 hours of learning it, the odds that I’ll apply it at all are near 0%.

So what did I do?

I tried to apply anything I learned either the same day or at the latest by the end of the following day.

What happened?

I started making more friends as a result of my social skills books.

I started saving more money due to my finance books.

I started becoming happier due to my self improvement books.

The results are in the actions, so if you don’t act on what you learn, you will get exactly what you put in.

4: Practice Discomfort Training

What separates a boy from a man?

A child follows his emotions.

A man follows his principles.

Disobeying your emotions is uncomfortable.

That’s why discomfort Training is one of the best ways to unf*ck your life.

What is discomfort training?

It’s learning to feel discomfort — and sit with it.

Want to know a common name for this?

The Monks call it, meditation.

I can hear the collective sighing now.

“Do I have to meditate?”

No.

What the gym is to your muscles, mediation is to your self control.

You don’t HAVE to go to the gym, but don’t complain if your muscles can’t do the job you ask it to do later.

If you can’t seem to stop yourself from:

Eating junk food.
Quitting porn.
Doing the things you should be doing.
Well then, it sounds like you might need some discomfort training.

5: Practice Being Happy.

Here’s something that took me forever to realize:

Happiness precedes success.

Success doesn’t precede happiness.

In order to get what you want, become happy FIRST.

Here’s a prime example.

You ever notice how you can’t get a date when you think a relationship is what you need to be happy?

Then after you’ve become happy with yourself alright, dating is hella easy?

That’s because when you’re happy, your brain can function at full power.

It can see the opportunities.

It has the drive to do what I needs to for it’s goals.

When you’re sad though, you just sit there and think of reasons why something is impossible or can’t work.

To do this, practice gratitude journalilng.

For this I just ask myself each morning:

A. What is a happy memory I have?

B. What am I happy that DIDN’T occur?

For happy memories I’ll think of something like me hanging out with my best friend for my birthday.

For something I’m happy didn’t occur I’ll think about something like not getting my ex pregnant.

Then I immediately feel happier.

6: Perfect Your Sleep

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Every Time my life is on the verge of falling apart I notice one thing in common.

My sleep pattern is terrible.

I’ll sleep one day at 9:30, the next at 2am.

Our ancestors are used to getting up when the sun comes up, and going to sleep when the sun goes down.

Not having a consistent sleep schedule will literally make you depressed.

So what’s the solution.

Clean up your sleep hygiene.

A. Set a time to sleep at the same day every single day forever.

If you’d give a child you love a bedtime why shouldn’t you have one as well?

B. Set an alarm to go off 30 minutes before bedtime to start winding down and to turn on Amber lighting.

Amber lighting resembles the colors of sunset our ancestors would see prior to going to sleep.

It causes your brain to start secreting melatonin, and to begin to relax you for bedtime.

C. Reserve all thinking for outside the bed.

If you’re like me, you may have learned to associate your pillow with thinking about everything you need to do in your life.

Do this instead.

Write down everything on your mind when it’s time to wind down.

Deal with it the following day.

If your mind tries to think about it, remind it like a child you love, “honey, now’s not the time for this.”

Then address it tomorrow.

7. Think the way winners do.

How you answer this next question will tell me if you have a winner or loser mindset.

It’s your first semester in college, and your first math test is coming up.

You get your results back and it says in bright red ink: F.

You failed.

What do you think?

A. I hate math, I’m so bad at it.

Or

B. Darn it, guess I didn’t study hard enough.

If you answered A, you have a fixed mindset.

This is the mindset that all that you are is an ascribed trait and you’re either good or bad at something, so if you aren’t naturally good might as well quit while you’re ahead.

If you answered B, you have a growth mindset.

This means you have absolutely no limit on your growth outside the amount of effort you’re willing to put in.

You want to become a math professor, you’ll probably do it.

You want to become an olympic athlete, you’ll probably do it.

Or if you’re like me, you want to become a top medium writer, you’ll probably do it.

Losers think: I am a failure, it’s over.

Winners think: I have failed, for now.

If you want to become a winner, stop saying I am blank.

Start saying, I behaved blank way and that’s why I got this result.

This alone may unf*ck your entire life.

This also happens to be one of the 7 Laws of Physical Attraction:

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How to unf*ck your life in a nutshell
A series of terrible habits will ruin your life.

But all of those terrible habits can easily be replaced to un-ruin your life.

For me these habits were:

Working out consistently.
Replacing entertainment with education.
Applying what I learned.
Meditating.
Gratitude Journaling.
Cleaning up my sleep hygiene.
Adopting a growth mindset.
I can say with near complete certainty if you adopt one, or all of these you will return to me in less than a year to thank me.

With all that being said let me ask you a question…

What if you could tell who liked you as soon as you met them?

Kind of like having Tinder Gold, except in real life 24/7?

How cool would that be?

Well you don’t have to imagine it.