Your Favorite TV Show is Holding You Back

How do you spend your time?

In 2016, a great majority of people will continue to spend more time on their appearance, watching TV, drinking and gossiping than they will on their own personal growth. The average person reads less than one book per year, but makes room for roughly 3 to 5 hours of TV per day. If you haven’t yet done the math, that’s 1000’s of hours per year — enough time to start a side business or two and generate an additional income stream. It seems like a no brainer then, right? Replace TV with a new business venture and see the numbers start rolling in. But, why are so many people opting for TV and the like, instead of pursuing success, wealth and prosperity? Because TV is easy.

TV is not alone. There are all sorts of in the moment happiness makers that people dabble with throughout their day:

• having drinks several nights a week without any real cause for celebration.
• keeping up to date with all 14 iPad/iPhone games.
• gossiping over coffee about how other people are going in the wrong direction in life.
• sleeping more than 7 or 8 hours a night.

Less filler = more growth

The above fillers steal precious time away from you and slowly prohibit you from living a fulfilling, successful life. I challenge you to take an inventory of how much time you spend on these and similar activities throughout your day. After completing this exercise, you might find that your “I don’t have time for that” excuse isn’t valid. It’s probable that you just haven’t made time for what you really want to achieve. Now, there are a small portion of you that are reading this and you get it. This article might even seem redundant to you and, if so, good. You are likely making practical use of your time on a regular basis. For those who see an opportunity for growth in this area, here are 3 things you can start doing right now that will boost your growth and minimize your filler activities throughout the day:

Read (more)

Tai Lopez is an advocate for “a book a day” which is not realistic for most of us (side bar: Mr. Lopez usually looks for the big idea in a book and oftentimes doesn’t read more than that, allowing him to get through a book a day). Start with a book a month. 12 books per year. Trade in your TV time and focus more on a topic you want to get better at. If you read 12 books related to one or two specific areas, you are guaranteed to see results and growth.

Find your direction and stick to it

In my perfect world, I would know everything about everything. Unfortunately, that’s not at all realistic or attainable and it would also be A LOT of work. Instead of trying to become a pro at everything, take what you are a natural at and make it amazing. When you perfect a handful of skills, you will realize the means to outsource other tasks and responsibilities. Is there someone that can do what your doing at 80% of the capacity that you are? Consider giving them the work.

Be positive and keep others positive

Ever find yourself in a circle of people having a conversation about a world event that quickly takes a turn and becomes a roast of Jimmy in accounting? When this happens, run. If you catch yourself being the negative one, cut yourself off and apologize. This behavior doesn’t benefit you or the people you are talking to. Not to mention, it will be especially uncomfortable and more damaging if Jimmy walks in.

By the way, Jimmy is probably a great guy, if you let yourself get to know him.

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