I went from being stuck in a perpetual rut to finally making the lifestyle changes that I had been struggling with for years...

Not too long ago, I found myself in the exact same position that many of you find yourselves in right now.

Every three to four months I would get the dreaded wake up call. You know which one I'm talking about right?

The moment where you take a step back and think about your life, and typically these thoughts start running through your head:

"I’m not living up to my full potential."

"I’m not making the changes that I said I would make."

"I’m not following through on my goals."

The feeling of regret hits you like a truck.

What the hell have I been doing for the past four months? Why didn’t I do the things that I said I was going to do?

In my case, here’s what would typically unfold after I received that wake-up call.

Filled with motivation and determined to make up for lost time, I would sit down and map out my plan to leave the 99% in the dust. 

Enough was enough. This time, I would finally take control of my life and build the habits that would set me up for success.

I was finally going to stop falling victim to procrastination and be more productive with my time.

I was finally going to start putting in the hours necessary to scale my business to six figured per year.

I was going to stop neglecting my personal relationships and start expanding my social circle.

Armed with my new goal and new plan, I believed that this time things were going to be different.

Yet despite my best intentions, nothing would ever change. After starting off with a little momentum for the first few days, my motivation would inevitably fade.

It would always be replaced by a giant wall of internal resistance that prevented me from taking action. A month later, I had pretty much regressed back to the same old self-destructive habits that plagued me before.

But luckily, time heals all wounds. So four months later, I’d get the same wake up call and repeat the vicious cycle over again.

This is what it’s like to be stuck on the self-improvement hamster wheel.

If you're reading this, you probably know exactly what I'm talking about.

You want to change. You know you need to change. But whenever you try to set new goals and build new habits, it always results in failure.

It was after repeated failures to change that I began to suspect that I was not the only one at fault.

I knew that there were people out there who had no problems when it came to consistently building positive habits, so it made sense to try to figure out what they were doing differently.

In search of answers, I began to explore the the world of behavior change, and that’s when things started to get really interesting.

For close to a year, I consumed every piece of information I could find surrounding concepts like habit formation, neuroscience, and behavioral psychology.

I even started my own blog and began to write down my thoughts, which mostly centered around strategies for building good habits & changing behavior.

That much writing and reading might sound pretty dreadful, but I found it to be incredibly engaging. Reading articles, reading books, and writing hundreds of thousands of words becomes a lot easier to tolerate when you're searching for answers that are central to your own happiness.

There wasn’t one magical moment that flipped the switch for me, but after enough research I formed a conclusion:

It wasn’t me that was the problem, it was my system.

As it turns out that, my plans for change were doomed from the moment I put them into motion.

It was NOT because my heart wasn’t in the right place.

It was NOT because I wasn’t motivated enough.

It was NOT because I didn’t have enough discipline.

It was because I simply didn’t have enough knowledge.

I didn't know that there was actually a formula for creating new habits that makes it 3x more likely that you're going to follow through.

I didn't know that setting big goals was the single-worst thing you could possibly do if your goal is to change your behavior long term.

I didn't know how to leverage the power of your environment so that the behaviors you want to do become your default option.

But now I did. So I went to work and started working on a new plan - one that would ensure I did things the right way instead of being guided by motivation and emotion.