This is Leo for actualized.org.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence then is not an act, but a habit. That is one of my favorite quotes of all time from Aristotle.

Commonly quoted quote, but very, very true.

And the more I'm practicing personal development,

and the more advanced I get, the more I realize

how powerful this message and this idea is, is that you are really only as good as your daily

routine.

Listen, I've been working on my daily routine lately, and by that what I mean is trying to get more consistency in what I'm doing throughout my day.

Actually putting into practice the things that I know I should be doing, the things that I know I want to be doing.

And what you don't realize about yourself if you're trying to get more success in your life, if you're trying to get more results, that it's the routine, the quality of your daily routine, the things that you're doing on a daily basis that is really going to determine

how good you feel at the end of the day and how much you accomplish

and really how far you're going to go in life. Here's the thing. Every day you really basically are making choices. You can

make a choice at the beginning of your day, right as you're waking up, to do the thing that you know you need

to be doing at that moment, or the choice to fall back and go into comfort.

So if you know you need to wake up at a certain time,

let's say 8 a.m. and you sleep in, that's you already breaking your routine

right off the bat. On the other hand, if you do wake up at 8 that's already one step that you've taken towards the

routine that you set for yourself and really, powerful people have successful, powerful routines that they're

living out, right?

The difference is that if you're going through your day,

and let's say you set a list for yourself of 20 things that you want to do that day.

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