HIGH ROI HABITS

Written By Ethan Dodd

A story from Sam Ovens - If you were driving down a dusty road and you saw this mysterious box with a slot with neon green glowing arrows pointing to a slot that took a dollar bill, curiously, you give the box a dollar and out of the back pops out a $5 and you take the $5 and you put it in the front and it gives you a $10, and so on… I bet you’d keep the box.

Why? Because it gave you an asymmetric return on your money. Small input, Large output.

Those opportunities exist in life, not that simply of course, but with our habits we do get a return on them. (Sam Ovens 80/20 Power Grid is a great way to invest time as a business owner, just skip to the part when you can see the sheet here)

Do’s:

  • Plan on a weekly and daily basis

  • Get clarity on your goals, make them S.M.A.R.T., reverse engineer them back to today, and write them down and post them where you can see them daily.

  • Meditate

  • Work Smart and Long

  • Exercise

  • Create a C.E.N.T.S. based business (MJ Demarco)

  • Solve your most painful problems & constraints

  • Improve your skills: communication, mindset, thinking from first principles, trades

  • Eat for nourishment

Anything that will give you a return on your spirit, time, relationship, energy, attention, money.

I call it an Asset Stream! , and anything that detracts from the stream cut!

Also, some of the best habits are the items you don’t do such as:

Drugs

Time wasting activities

Processed food

Short-term gratification

Low-impact/ Low-urgency action items

Soda

Alcohol

TV

News

Tobacco

Consume Social Media

Weed

P*rn

Phone for anything else but practical means

Use Debt

Sugar

Etc.

Ethan Dodd
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