Chapter 47

You should be fanatical about your habits. Your good habits that is. You long should have removed your bad habits from your life, but sometimes it takes decades, I get it. Some of my worst ones were the thorniest to get rid of. Now looking back I should have made those worst one’s the first priority of good riddance. They were costing me the most, giving me the least, and sabotaging all my other good habits. And that makes them twice or three times as bad! Get rid of those bad habits immediately. They are costing you more than you know!

It is ok, even admirable, to be fanatical about your habits. John Irving said something very similar, and you should listen to John Irving, even if you don’t listen to me. But if you have stuck with this chapter this far, then you are likely all in. So let me say it again, be fanatical about your good habits that produce what you value in life. Fanatical about doing them! Fanatical about protecting them. Fanatical about receiving the results! 

These are the foundations of a well crafted life. This is why you get on the scale everyday. This is why you eat what you eat. This is why you read what you read. This is why you don’t watch TV or doomscroll or surf social media - those would be in the bad habits category. You are smarter than that. You are spending your time with people, inspiring them, hearing their stories, changing the world.

Be a fanatic!