The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Seven primal mantras to drive your success.

Do you have any mantras?

You should.

Ignore the pseudo-spiritual baggage many people have with the notion of a mantra.

Repeating and focusing on a meaningful phrase to help guide you through difficult situations,

whether that's an hour of sitting meditation or a commitment to a healthy primal lifestyle, is a legitimate tool anyone can use. Today I'm going to give you seven mantras

that I find to be useful. Many of these don't even apply explicitly to nutrition or fitness,

so anyone can gain from incorporating them. I even left off a personal

mantra of mine, rend the flesh of young mammals and consume it close to raw as possible. To make

vegetarians and vegans feel more welcome. Let's go. Number one, pay yourself first. In business, the single best piece of advice I ever received was to

invest in myself. That meant furthering my education, improving my health, taking the opportunity to

get some extra sleep, and even taking calculated risks in business to either succeed outright or fail but learn something new.

This worked out beautifully.

I buckled down on nutrition and science.

I figured out what was causing my health issues and enacted the right changes to my diet, exercise, and lifestyle to solve them.

And I took a ton of risks, including giving up a cushy job to start primal nutrition.

All of these self-payments led to the life I now lead.

Take care of yourself first and the benefits emanate outward.

You could nag your friends about giving up fast food and get nowhere,

or you could focus on optimizing your

own eating habits and let the results speak for themselves. Number two, if it were easy, everyone would

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