Mo retweeted
You may tell yourself you'll do it tomorrow.
But we both know you will repeat what you did today.
That's our nature. Our body doesn't want change. It wants to survive, which is why it pulls you towards familiar habitat.
Either you make a cut now, or "being rock bottom" will.
Mo retweeted
I've entered Monk Mode.
I'm glad you asked.
This behavior is an all-in-one solution. You don't need any more tricks, no motivational sayings, nothing.
It makes success a no-brainer.
Monk Mode is a state of absolute dopamine detox. It means making a firm decision to forgo all forms of immediate and unearned dopamine.
Gaming, YouTube videos, social media scrolling, Netflix, porn or sugar are a thing of the past.
Why would anyone do this to themselves, you may ask.
For one thing, to clear the mind.
Dopamine over stimulation makes for a foggy mind. If you want to have clear and good thought processes or outstanding ideas, you have to do without all cheap dopamine.
On the other hand,
you force yourself to earn the dopamine again. If you can't cheat your way to dopamine, you'll be forced to do something at some point. You're not going to sit on your bed for 10 hours and do nothing. Everything is more fun than that.
You will start drawing, taking walks, planning your life, going to the gym, but most of all you will have no problem doing hard things. To work on your dreams.
Going to the PC and figuring out how to build a landing page, programming, or studying for college is a lot less fun than immediately injecting yourself with dopamine in the form of digital consumption.
But when you're not allowed to do that anymore, you'll rather study to get a well-deserved dopamine release afterwards than stare at the wall.
But there is another major advantage.
You will never fall off the wagon. You will never stop going to the gym again. You will never again forget that you wanted to follow through and never again waste weeks of your life.
Because what gets you out of the motivation and the disciplined phase are always the exceptions.
You've been busy for 2 weeks, you deserve to chill a bit, you sit down and watch some videos or gamble for an hour, and bam, you're backsliding like a dry alcoholic who drank something again.
Because that's exactly what you are. A dry dopamine addict. You slip into the old patterns faster than you can look and then you need months to start the hustle again... and again... and again.
Monk Mode does not allow exceptions. If you have hustled for 5 hours, there is no video. You sit down, read a book or not. You just think, go to the gym, for a walk or meet with friends.
And after you are recovered, there is no reason not to continue working on your dream.
If you live like that, you have several hours more time per day. And you notice that. I am completely decelerated. I have the feeling that I finally have enough time in my days.
When I am exhausted then I lie down or draw something. Or I go hiking with a friend.
I love the Monk Mode,
and I don't know why I should ever again sit in front of the screen with a dopamine syringe in my vein and let hours and hours go by without really living.
Peace! ✌️
Mo retweeted
Discipline as the starting point, the decision to make a change.
Habits then become the small steps we take every day, like training or eating healthy.
Consistency is showing up, keeping those habits going.
With time these 3 work like magic, turning your efforts into growth.
Mo retweeted
Asking questions is a beautiful way to satisfy our innate curiosity to get a better understanding of the world.
It's like a key that unlocks doors to new knowledge and insights.
That´s why it´s foolish not to ask questions.
