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If you want to learn how to hack your life by mastering your energy, setting triggers, and tricking yourself on how to interpret things, then this video is for you.

If you master this, everything else you can dream of is available to you. And if you fail to master this, everything else goes to the wayside.

And having new goals without new habits is kind of like, you know, having a new car without wheels. You know, the habits are the wheels. They're the things that make you able to achieve the goals.

When you used to speak in front of a large audience and somebody would say, how do you feel? I used to say, "A little nervous." Now when somebody says, "How do you feel?" I'm like, "Pretty excited, actually." What's up, Believe Nation?

It's Evan. My one word is believe, and I believe in you. I believe in that amazing potential that you have inside you that I want to see explode out into the world. So to help you on your journey, today we're going to learn 5 life hacks that everybody should know about. Enjoy. Life hack number 1 is use the 5-second rule with Mel Robbins.

Number 1, your life happens in 5-second windows. Number 2, in 5 seconds, you can control what you think, you can decide what you're gonna do, and you can change absolutely anything, which changes absolutely everything. And so the 5-second rule is a mind trick. That's all that it is. A fancy way to call it is a, You know, it's a form of metacognition. But it's basically a hack. It's a cheat code.

Okay.

And the way that it works, and this is the challenge with getting it out there, is that it sounds so profoundly stupid, like a gimmick, that it took a while for people to actually take it seriously.

I get that, I get that.

And to really stack up the science to make anybody that interacts with it go, holy shit, this actually works. So here's what it is. Basically, the moment you catch yourself hesitating or doubting or starting to worry or about to chicken out or shrink or shut up or whatever it is that you're about to do that is shrinking your power, you just go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. You count backwards, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. What happens when you do that, don't do it out loud 'cause it'll scare somebody, like psycho, and I mean, 5 more if you want, I'm talking! Yes, exactly, no.

I turn.

Yes, exactly. By counting backwards, the kind of cheat code that you're doing in your mind is you are interrupting what are called habit loops that get encoded in the central part of your brain, and you are starting up the prefrontal cortex. It's a little trick that causes focus, and it's a lot like having a mantra. 'cause you're shifting gears, but the thing about having a mantra is, and I suppose that as you count backwards more and more and more, you become used to it, but it becomes a habit that triggers action. So what you do is you go 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, cut off this part of the brain, awaken this part of the brain, and then move. And what happens with the counting backwards is there's nowhere to go after 1, and your mind is socialized in a countdown situation to go. And so counting up won't work because you can keep going forever and you do it in many aspects of your life. So it's actually not something that requires any focus.

Life hack number 2 is run the 90-91 rule with Robin Sharma.

So for the next 90 days, your first 90 minutes at work, make it focused on your single most important project. I'll repeat that again. For the next 90 days, the first 90 minutes of your workday, focus monomaniacally on your single most valuable project. I call it your game-changing move. So it might be, it might be creating a new piece of code that will revolutionize the marketplace. It might be a new product that when you when you launch it, will fill a need within your industry that no peer is currently providing. I don't know what your game-changing move is, but this is your poetry. This is your magnum opus for the next 90 days. So what most people do is, you know, people who are playing in victimhood, people who are in the 95%, people who are making excuses about ordinary results in their life, a lot of them are not doing the things that would give them legendary results. And what they do is they get to the office, And rather than using prime time for A activities, they use their best hours watching Dancing Cats on whatever it is, whatever the video platform is. They spend their best hours surfing the internet looking at blogs. They spend their best hours playing with notifications, reading notifications, chatting with friends who are not really their friends, but really they're just bored so they're distracting themselves, which is just a form of medication because potential unexpressed turns to pain and They're in a lot of pain and it's subconscious and they haven't done the work to know it. So really, they've created these drugs of choice, like too much email, too much web surfing, too much chit-chatting, too much looking at funny-looking videos that make them laugh in the moment, that make them feel happy and give them a short burst of dopamine and maybe a little bit of serotonin, which is the pleasure neurotransmitter, and that's how they get through their day. And all I'm saying is there is so much distraction available to you out there that if you are not acutely careful, it will dominate your days. What I'm really trying to say is this: a ritual for you to run and dial in and hardwire to the point of automaticity— that's the word the researchers use when a habit becomes your new normal— over 66 days is the 90-90-1 rule. And to give it to you again so you really remember it for the next 90 days, your first 90 minutes, create a tight bubble of total focus so that no one can distract you. Turn off your devices, put them in a little plastic bag, put some reminders on your door, maybe some Post-it notes that this is my tight bubble of total focus for the next 90 minutes. Tell your team, tell your loved ones, maybe get a— put a do not disturb sign on your door. They'll laugh, and explain it to them that for the next 90 days, I will spend 90 minutes away from distraction, away from technology, away from interruptions, focusing on my magnum opus, focusing on the genius project that I want to bring into the world because I will never mail it in. I will always bring it on, and I'm going to do this for the next 90 minutes, and I'm going to optimize it and iterate it every day, and I'm going to bring my full bandwidth because what makes a genius— they all have one trait in common— they were able people to spend extended periods of time in isolation, focused monomaniacally on their most valuable project.

Life hack number 3 is master your energy with Tony Robbins.

If you master this, everything else you can dream of is available to you. And if you fail to master this, everything else goes to the wayside. I mean, I meet people all the time in relationships and they want relationship therapy. And I, I see, you know, you got to do, you got to exercise, you got to work out, you got to lose some weight. You guys are just so tired, there couldn't possibly be any passion. When you're exhausted, there is no passion. And you'll say, "OK, well, I'm going to really work on a plan, and I'm going to organize things, and I'm going to find the best trainer." And, you know, I come back and I'm talking to them a week later and they're still planning things. This woman's telling me, "No, but I'm going to get the best trainer. I'm going to have the very best trainer organize this." I said, "Ma'am, with all due respect, you don't need a plan, you need a trainer. You need somebody that gets behind you and just yells, 'Run! Move!'" Long plan. You just gotta move. You know, we're living in a society where nobody moves anymore. What are we like today? How do people get injured today? They don't get injured smashing into people playing football or anything else. They get injured typing, right? You know, picking up a pencil. Oh, oh, that really— oh, that's how people get hurt today because we don't use everything anymore. We live in a box. Think about it. Think about our lives today and how different it is than maybe the way we were formed to be made. To run, to hunt, to create, to procreate, to raise our children, to move, to farm, to do all the things that made us use all of our body. Today, what do we do? You wake up and you have this box life. You have a box breakfast, right? You get in your box car, you drive to your box office, you float up a box elevator. You don't use the stairs, of course, right? You go to your box office where you type on a box, talk on a box, Right? Go into a box room for meetings. Right? Sure enough, got a little box you can type on, listen to, listen to music on, box. Have your box lunch. Drive your box home or get on the train or subway in another box home. Get home to your box and then turn on the box. Type on a box. Message on a box. I mean, and maybe go get a sandwich a cylinder to change your state, right? Maybe. And most people's idea of exercise in our society today is fill the tub, pull the plug, and fight the current. That's the world we live in today. And so it's not hard to figure out why we're getting fat and why we're finally kind of tired and why we're building up acid in our system, consuming foods that have nothing alive in them anymore. More, where everything is denurtured and everything is chemicalized or radiated. So it can feel overwhelming, but I think if we got back to our common sense and if we were really committed, we could make it all work. And what I'm trying to say to you is really simply this, this morning. I'm going to take the morning and not talk to you about how to do this. We're going to figure out why to, because 80% of success in anything is psychology and 20% is mechanics. It's the beliefs you have that are guiding your decisions. Listen, if you make a different decision, will you take different actions? Yes or no? If you take different actions, will you get different results? Yes or no? So this day is about some new decisions, some decisions about what you're going to believe about health and energy, how important it's going to be for you from now on, what's going to be a must for you versus a should for you. Energy is a place that I've more than been, right? And I want to make sure that you have even more. I want to make it so that it's as effortless as possible. In the future, so you're not burnt out from it, so this becomes a sustainable experience. How do you make it sustainable? Create the base. How do you make it sustainable? Challenge it. Once you've got a base, you challenge and grow. How do you do it? Then you've got to celebrate and reward yourself for making these great rewards, and that celebration enhances your base, because you feel better and stronger, and you want to do even more good things. You want to eat better, you want to play better. I mean, when you start working out and you start to get into it, you love it. You love it. And then your base gets even stronger so you can take on a bigger challenge in life. And sure enough, you reward yourself and celebrate some more, and it becomes how the rich get richer, how the happy get happier, how the healthy get healthier, and the poor get poorer, and the depressed get more depressed, and the unhealthy get more unhealthy. It's momentum. Today is that process of momentum.

Life hack number 4 is set trigger moments to sustain your habits with Brendon Burchard.

I know you all have big goals, big dreams, big aspirations just like I do. You've got ambitions to become an amazing person, to build your career, to create, to contribute, to give, to be an awesome human being, but all of that is impossible without great habits set up. If you don't have routine and structure set up in a way that will keep you on track, then you'll fall off, and having new goals without new habits is kind of like like having a new car without wheels. The habits are the wheels. They're the things that make you able to achieve the goals. So you gotta have good habits, but the challenge for most people isn't that knowledge. I mean, you know you need to have good habits. It's you can't keep the habit going, right? Have you ever started at the new year, you're gonna get healthier, and you start that habit of working out on a more regular basis, and then it goes away? Or you say, you know, I'm gonna be more kind and more patient and more awesome to my partner, my lover, and you start being nice for 2 or 3 days and then on the 4th day you're a jerk, you know, and you're like, what happened? I said I was gonna be nicer. It's that you didn't set up the most important thing you needed to maintain a habit. So what's the biggest secret I've learned in almost 20 years in this field? It's so simple, but most people don't have it. It's called trigger moments. You have to set up trigger moments to activate your habits. What do I mean by that? Well, let's say you want to become a better person. You know, you want to become more kind, more patient, more loving with people. Now you can just set that intention or write that down in your vision or in your journal or set up on a vision board that you look at once in a while, but in day-to-day life, It's not enough. You need things to trigger you, to remind you to be that particular kind of person, right? It's almost like if you could have a little angel speaking in your ear all day long to tell you what to do and how to be, you'd obviously become better. Well, that makes sense. Well, let's use that idea. Let's use that idea by setting up alarms on our phones that trigger us to do the very things we need to do. This is gonna be so basic you're gonna laugh, and then I'll also tell you how I've literally taught this to Fortune 50 CEOs, and they said it was the one thing that changed their life the most dramatically. So let's start with this. Let's have a goal in mind. Let's say you want to become more present and calm throughout the day. Again, you could write that down on a journal. I'm gonna be more present and calm. You could meditate in the morning saying, today I'm gonna be more present and calm. And you could start out with good intentions, but those fall apart without a trigger moment set up throughout the day to remind you that. So what if you did this? What if you just set up on your phone 3 alarms during the day with a label that said, close your eyes, take 10 deep breaths in, remind yourself to be calm. So let's say you're going through your day, it's crazy, right? It's 10 AM and all of a sudden, bing, your phone goes off, you look down and it says, close your eyes, take 10 deep breaths. And then again, it happens at 2 o'clock. And again, it happens at 6 PM. And again, it happens at 8 PM. What's gonna happen? You always look at your phone, don't you? It's gonna go throughout the day, you're gonna forget. And the funniest thing is, I've had so many people do this worldwide, we're talking about hundreds of thousands of people I've taught to do this, hundreds of thousands. And they tell me all the time, that changed everything. And you'll think once you set it up that the next day, You'll forget about it. No, that alarm will go off. You forgot you set the dang alarm. There it goes off in your face. You're like, "All right, I'm trying to be calmer and more present. Close my eyes, take 10 deep breaths, reground myself. Here we go." You can't do it once a day. You have to have moments throughout the day that trigger you to enact the new behavior. I know this makes sense to you, but it's a challenge for a lot of people. Because they never set those things up. So what if you did it with an alarm? So for example, for me on the opposite spectrum, I don't want to just be calmer and more present, I want more energy throughout the day. So here's what I do, one of my big trigger moments is every time my butt hits a chair, I don't care if I'm on a plane or I was like where we're shooting here, I wrote a lot of my books here, I wrote The Motivation Manifesto here, I wrote The Charge here, and if I'm going to write, my butt hits the chair, I grab my phone, I open the timer, and I set 50 minutes. Now at 50 minutes, the timer goes bzzz, it starts buzzing, and I look at that and I go, oh, that's my trigger to get energy. So I stand up, I go get some water, I take a glass of water, drink it down, I do some stretches, and I do some exercise just really briefly, or I'll go for a walk, whatever it is, but I'll do something that usually takes just 2 to 5 minutes, then I'll sit back down, I'll set that 50-minute alarm, and I'll work. And what that does is every 50 minutes it triggers me to change how I'm physically moving, it changes my attention, so that throughout the day I'm continually refreshed. So I never have that 2, 3, 4 o'clock time where I'm like, ah, you know why? Because I've triggered my day so that my energy is maintained throughout the makes sense, right? This could be as simple as, let's say you want to be healthier in your life. Okay, let's set up some trigger moments for you in this way. Let's say every time you drop off the kids, on the way back to the house, you stop at the grocery store and get some fresh produce. That's just a trigger. It's like, okay, did one thing, drop kids off. Now tied to that, triggered from that action, drop kids off, is go to health food store. Or let's say you want to get healthier in the morning. One of the easiest ways to help people maintain a better exercise program is this. Set a trigger, you wake up in the morning, your first action is to drink water, put your exercise shoes on, might get dressed if you were naked, just saying. So you get dressed, put your shoes on, you go downstairs or you go to the gym, and that's the trigger. You woke up, you do these actions. Nothing interrupts those actions, that's the action. And you have to have those set up. One of my other favorite trigger moments to set up is doorframe triggers. What do you mean by that? When you walk into a new room, to have a psychological trigger go off in your mind that you've associated with that doorframe. So let me give you an example. If I walk into my house at night, if I've been working all day and I'm gonna walk in, I'm gonna see my lady, I have it so when I ever walk through the doors of my house, 3 words repeat off immediately in my mind because I've done it so many times consciously. I went to the door, I said the 3 words, said the 3 words, said the 3 words, and I did this so many times that now when I walk through a door, my mind automatically triggers those 3 words and I remember to be those 3 words. So what words would you love to have describe you as a person that you would be happy if that was how people described you? What would those words be? Have those and now set them up in your life. I teach executives to do this as well. I have them have a doorframe trigger when they walk into their office in the morning. As soon as they walk through that doorframe, they have, boom, 3 words go through their mind about how they want to be perceived as a leader, leader. I have them set up another doorframe. Every time they walk into a meeting, into the conference room, when they walk through the doors of the conference room, they have another 3 words that trigger off for them, and it just reminds them how to be. So these aren't big crazy things. A lot of people, they think they have to completely change their life. What would change your life completely is setting up more trigger moments and associations that when you see something, you do this, that when this action is taken, then that happens, that when you have the opportunity to set up alarms on your phone, you set them up so that you're interrupted in your everyday life to remind yourself to stick to the habits, to stick to the intention. You do that enough on a continual basis, you'll find yourself in so many ways completely rejuvenated, and I promise you'll stick to your habits even more. And once you do that, you know that everything changes.

And life hack number 5 is interpret pressure as excitement with Simon Sinek.

I was watching the Olympics this last summer Olympics, and I was amazed at how bad the questions were that the reporters would ask all the athletes. And almost always they asked the same question whether they were about to compete or after they competed, were you nervous? Right? And to a T, all the athletes went, no. Right? And what I realized is it's not that they're not nervous, it's their interpretation of what's happening in their bodies. I mean, what happens when you're nervous? Right? Your heart rate starts to go, you know, you sort of get a little tense, you get a little sweaty, right? You have expectation of what's coming. And we interpret that as I'm nervous. Now, what's the interpretation of excited? Your heart rate starts to go, you become— you're anticipating what's coming, right? You get a little sort of like tense. It's all the same thing. It's the same stimuli, except these athletes, these Olympic quality athletes, have learned to interpret the stimuli that the rest of us would say is nervous as excited. They all said the same thing. No, I'm not nervous. I'm excited. And so I've actually practiced it just to tell myself when I start to get nervous that this is excitement. You know, and so when you used to speak in front of a large audience and somebody'd say, "How do you feel?" I used to say, "A little nervous." Now when somebody says, "How do you feel?" I'm like, "Really excited, actually." And it came from just sort of telling myself, "No, no, no, this is excitement." And it becomes a little bit automatic later on. But it's kind of a remarkable thing to deal with pressure by interpreting what your body is experiencing as excitement rather than nerves, and it's really kind of effective. It makes you want to rush forward rather than pull back, and yet it's the same experience.

So there's a lot of life hacks here. It's hard to pick my favorite. I love them all. I would say though, probably number 4 is my favorite, the one with Brendon Burchard around setting triggers to reinforce your habits. The doorframe exercise where you walk into a room and every time you see this doorframe and you remind yourself of something is something I've had on my radar. I've heard him say I say that a number of times, it's on my radar. It's one of those things that eventually, slowly by slowly, it's wearing me down. It's gonna happen, and I'll find a way to apply it into my life. So that would be my favorite, but I would love to know which one did you guys like the most? Which one are you gonna apply to your life and had the biggest impact? Please leave it down in the comments below. I'm really looking forward to hearing from you. So thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever Your one word is much love. I'll see you soon.

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