Keystone Habits that can improve your Life-Style
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True Life is lived when tiny changes occur -Leo Tolstoi

Hello, today I’ll talk about Keystone Habits that can drastically improve your life. So you’re asking, What exactly is a Keystone Habit? Well, I’ll explain you what is is.

Keystone habit is a single habit that causes you to adopt multiple other good habits and change your life. The reason I’m telling you the story is because today you’re going to pick up a habit to focus on for the rest of this course. And the three habits that I’m gonna show you are three of the most powerful. Keys don’t have it out there. These habits have the highest chance of drastically changing your life.

Number 1-Reading.

Well, everyone knows that education is important. That’s why we spend 12 to 18 years in buildings that are designed to teach us things. However, the problem lies in the fact that most of the stuff we learned in school isn’t useful in real life. What was the last time you had to use your History knowledge or your knowledge of Calculus? These things are nice to know and have their uses but aren’t that practical in our day to day lives. Instead we need to be learning about things like social skills maintaining a proper diet or how to exercise money management things that we don’t really learn correctly in school. Books provide you with knowledge on all of these topics. They also give you different perspectives on things that we assumed to be true. For example most people assume they should always buy a car but if you read books on investing or money management, you’ll often come across the idea that “Hey it’s actually better to lease a car” and this is actually true. Literally all of the car salesmen that I personally know leased their cars. They don’t buy them. And by reading you’ll often find that you’ll adjusting other areas of your life if you are reading book on body language you’ll start becoming more conscious of your own body language as well as those around you. If you read a book on money management, you start noticing a change in your spending habits. And because of its ability to influence any party of your life in a positive way, reading is without a doubt. One of the most powerful Keystone Habits out there.

Number 2- Meditation

The reason Meditation is so powerful is because of what it does to your brain. It trains a part of your brain that’s responsible for willpower for self-control. And just like going to the gym, if you train it, it actually gets stronger. And this gives you the ability to do certain things. Things that I consider to be superpowers. For example you’ll find yourself more in control of your emotions. And this is great because oftentimes we relapse or give into our addictions when our emotions are all over the place. Another thing meditation trains you to do is focus longer. Meditation is simply the act of trying to focus your mind on one thing and this is extremely hard for people nowadays. When you start meditating and making it into a habit, you’ll notice a drastic increase in your ability to focus. Maybe in the past, you were the type of person who couldn’t even read two pages of a book without getting sidetracked. A lot of people report increased focus being able to read entire chapter at a time after making meditation into a habit. And the last superpower that Meditation provides is a sense of general well-being. Do you remember that sort of awe and joy you had as a kid when a little things in life would excite you? Meditation brings back that sort of mindset, that sort of perspective where you can sit down on a park bench and simply be mind blown by just how beautiful everything around you is. Meditation is an extremely powerful Keystone habit because it in itself is a very very hard habit to stick. But if you can make it into a habit that you do automatically every day, that means your levels of willpower have skyrocket dramatically and adopting other habits will become a piece of cake.

Number 3-Fitness

This includes everything from running to lifting heavy weights to doing calisthenics. Fitness is an extremely powerful keys don’t have is because of its intimate relationship with diet. Researchers have found that most people who start sticking to a fitness regimen will often find themselves adjusting their diet as well. Even if they’re told not to, it makes sense because if you’re working your ass off at gym. You’re less likely to consume junk food right after, because it quote unquote undos all of your hard work. And because of these two habits, basically a come in package together. It requires a lot of willpower to maintain. So if you can successfully make them into full-fledged habits, you’ll be able to take smaller habits with ease. For now, just understand that it does work like muscle. The more you test, the stronger it becomes. On top of that the habit fitness and diet has huge influence on how you feel every single day. Many people report feeling tired and foggy and oftentimes the problem stems from our diet. Or our lack of exercise. Once these people start adopting these two good habits, they often report feeling much better. If you start feeling better on a day to day basis, it makes it much easier to start adopting other good habits. This ability to improve your body’s day-to-day function makes fitness and diet an extremely powerful Keystones habits.

Now I know, I know, there’s dozens of other good habits out there like cold showers, morning rituals, making your bed etc… But these 3 Keystone Habits are without a doubt, 3 of the most powerful habits that you can add to your life. So what I like you for to do right now is to think carefully about which habit you want to work on the rest of this course. Which of these habits are you going to try to stick to until it reaches that line of automatically we talked about. Well you no longer even have to think about doing it. That’s the goal. It’s also very important to note that you should only try to stick to one of these habits at a time. We humans are extremely bad at multitasking. Although we tend to think that we’re pretty good. I can just guarantee that if you’re trying to adopt multiple habits at once. That you’re going to get overwhelmed and fail. Stick to the single Keystone Habit that you decide on it until it reaches that line of automaticity. Do not, I repeat do not try to adopt any other good habits until that Keystone Habit you have picked is completely embedded in your life.

Thank you for reading. And I wish you all the good luck!