Have you noticed that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs and Elon Musk have a habit of dressing the same way each and every day? There is a reason for it.
Standardising parts of your day means that you purposefully decide to embed certain things you do each and every single day – irrespective of mood or circumstance, particularly the things that contribute to the goals and outcomes you wish to see.
This may sound difficult, but there are already things that you do every single day. The only difference is that these things are often not intentional and, in some cases, are not in line with your goals.
Zuckerberg and co do this to avoid the fatigue of deciding what to wear every morning so that they can preserve their mental energy for the important decisions they need to take throughout their day.
I am not saying you should wear the same outfit every day, the point here is that they have standardised certain parts of their day for a specific purpose.
There are things that you should be doing every day, and there are things that you should not be doing every day.
Are you aware of them? Similarly, there are things that you only do once a week or once a month, that you should be doing every day.
The point is not to build robotic lives that conform to a certain pattern. Rather, it is to normalise your most impactful and fruitful actions to an extent that they become a standard part of who you are.
When you successfully convert something valuable from it being intermittent to it being standardised, it becomes your new norm and it frees up valuable cognitive space to further add new things as you grow.
That is how continuous growth works.
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