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If you want to become successful, you need to be bored.
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If you want to become successful, you need to be bored.
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Boredom isn't wasted time.
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It's how you unlock the clarity that builds wealth.
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I make million-dollar decisions every day, and my best decisions didn't happen when I was focused and engaged.
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They happened in moments when I was bored.
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So these are the six principles of boredom that can change your life and unlock true wealth-making potential.
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Starting with the one most people avoid, boredom strengthens self-trust.
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I realized that the confidence to raise money,
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lead a large team, grow my business actually came from hearing my own internal voice in those quiet moments,
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not from the external world validating me or giving me information.
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You see, most people fear boredom because they're scared of hearing their own thoughts.
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Silence feels uncomfortable, but that discomfort is where growth happens.
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When you avoid it, you never learn what you actually think, what you actually want, or who you actually are.
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If you can't hear yourself, you'll spend your life following instead of leading.
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You'll make decisions based off of what everyone else thinks instead of what you know is right.
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Self-trust doesn't come from external validation.
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It comes from listening to yourself enough times to know that you can trust you.
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Boredom is where that trust is built.
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The best way to practice this is to avoid pulling out your phone at every moment of silence.
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I don't care if you're in the waiting room at a doctor's appointment or if you're at a networking event.
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Don't use your phone as a distraction to your own thoughts and a distraction to the environment that you're in.
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Just be there, be present, and figure out what you need to do in
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that moment to fight off your urge to be entertained and instead be present.
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That's how you build self-trust.
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One quiet moment at a time.
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Now principle number two is something that most people get backwards.
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Stillness creates strategic thinking.
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Have you ever noticed how inspired you feel when you're taking a shower or driving somewhere?
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Every single day, my best ideas show up during my 20-minute commute to work
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when I intentionally leave the music off and let my brain wander.
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And this isn't just me.
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Bill Gates is famous for taking Think Weeks, where there's an entire week of intentional boredom.
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And he literally does nothing but read and think.
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There's no meetings, there's no calls, there's no follow-ups.
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Just thinking.
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This works because according to a 2019 study in Nature Communications,
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idle mind wandering improves creativity and big picture planning because it activates the regions of the brain linked to strategic thought.
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That's why if you never create mental space, you'll always react and you'll never architect your life or your business.
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Your brain needs blank space to process, to connect dots, and to see patterns that you'd otherwise just miss.
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So find time in things that you do every single day where you intentionally consume nothing.
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There's no headphones, no podcasts, no music, just thinking.
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Create intentional boredom and watch your strategic thinking sharpen.
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Principle number three might be the most important one for long-term success.
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The brain needs recovery time to build discipline.
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I used to feel so busy all the time and really started to notice that I just wasn't getting anything done.
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I was making tiny progress on stupid little things instead of making massive movements towards my goals.
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And what I realized was I just thought I could squeeze everything into the day.
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I would schedule my day to have meetings at 7.30 in the morning and squeeze in 30-minute and sometimes even 15-minute increments,
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meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting to make all these decisions and push these things forward.
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Sure, lots of small things were getting done, but none of the big things were getting done.
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And I felt frazzled.
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I felt disconnected because it was just a bunch of stuff happening.
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And when you start to feel this way, you have to recognize you're not giving yourself the space to make the work that needs to get done a priority.
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And the science supports this.
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Neuroscientists at Stanford found that overstimulation reduces the brain's ability to regulate impulses and even make long-term decisions.
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So in other words, Constant noise makes you impulsive and short-sighted because a tired brain will always default to shortcuts,
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scrolling, procrastination, and avoid the big tasks.
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It takes the path of least resistance because it doesn't have the energy to do anything else.
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You can't do the deep work.
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So from now on, instead of stacking your day with all sorts of small little things, how can you block time for the most important work
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that you have to do that are tied to your long-term goals today?
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Don't put off your long-term goal action-taking for the future.
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Long-term goals get accomplished when you force yourself to do the work that you are avoiding doing now.
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This could look like new partnerships for your business, starting a podcast, maybe you want to write a book.
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Do that work first because it's connected to where you're trying to go.
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And your time after that will always fill in with the minutiae of the work that you have to do today.
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But don't do the work that you have to do today before prioritizing the work
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that is going to get you to where you want to go in the future.
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Now we're on to number four.
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Boredom makes things simpler.
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Some of the most famous writers from J.K.
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Rowling to Stephen King rely on boring environments to finish big projects.
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They're not distracted by noise.
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They're immersed in their work.
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And I try to emulate that in my environment.
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After my first meeting each day, I block a quiet hour or two where there aren't any calls, there aren't any talking, there aren't any follow-ups.
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It's my time to create a mental reset to work on the most important problems
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that I have to solve instead of just jumping into the never-ending list of other people's priorities.
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Fordham doesn't block thinking or productivity.
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It makes space for it.
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Because think about it.
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If every moment is stimulated, your brain never has the space to simplify all of the complexity.
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You stay in reaction mode instead of solution mode.
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And stillness allows your brain to soar through noise and to find the signal.
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It's defragmenting a hard drive.
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You're reorganizing information so that you can access it faster and more clearly.
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I was reminded of the stillness just last week when I went to Disney World.
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I was on Space Mountain, which used to be my favorite ride, But halfway through it, I started to get very nauseous
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and I was actually worried that I was gonna throw up or pass out.
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And in this moment where there is madness and chaos around me, I had this very present time thought to just be still.
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Instead of really leaning into this experience, I just thought through how do I stay still for my own preservation and survival in this moment.
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And it made me think of how many times we enter the day, or we step into our office and the work environment
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or our families and our friends
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and we just let the environment tossle us instead of us having the discipline to create those small moments
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that allow you to reset and take complete control of your intention in the situation that you're in.
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So maybe your life doesn't look as chaotic as a space mountain ride
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but how can you take this principle into everyday moments
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that do create little situations of chaos to completely reset so that you're in control.
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That brings us to principle number five.
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Morning boredom sets your mental operating system.
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Many of the world-leading CEOs, like Tim Cook and Oprah,
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start their mornings in silence or with reading because it primes their brain for leading instead of reacting.
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My first 45 minutes of every single day are also like that.
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Reading, no phone, no distractions, no notifications.
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The intentional boredom sets the tone for calm thinking instead of frantic reacting.
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On the days where I don't do this
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and instead of taking my sweet time in the morning to think
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and read and I make the accidental move to open up Instagram or TikTok or emails or text messages first thing,
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I feel like I'm off because now I'm online shopping
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or looking at what other people are doing instead of focusing on what I need to do
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and what's going to make my day productive.
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And this little switch allows me to start off my day in a way that I'm proud of.
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I'm really proud that I do something to enrich myself before I meet the demands of my environment.
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The needs will be met in my environment, but I'm willing to wait until 8am instead of 5am to start answering everybody else's demands.
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What do I need and how do I enrich myself?
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That is my first target.
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And Harvard Business School actually found
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that leaders who spend 30 minutes each morning in reflection or reading perform better with decision-heavy environments.
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And it makes sense.
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If your first input is chaos, your brain spends the entire day recovering from it.
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So start your day with at least 30 minutes of quiet time.
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No phone, maybe a great book, and train your brain to think before it reacts.
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Lastly, number six, Sunday stillness.
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Every Sunday, take an hour to look at your goals, your upcoming schedule, and your priorities for the week.
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This is not glamorous.
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It is quiet and it's boring, but it's the reason that you will make real progress towards the things that you actually want to accomplish.
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I do this every single Sunday.
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There is a specific hold on my calendar that says, what are my priorities for this week?
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And on this hold in my calendar, I have an agenda of all of the things
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that I told myself at the beginning of the year I was going to accomplish.
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So it aligns my future goals with where I am planning my time for this week.
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And when I look at my week, I actually make time and create space for me to start achieving those goals.
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This goes back to point number five.
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When you know what your goals are
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and you align where your time is being spent at the beginning of the week proactively to make progress on those goals,
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you will actually be proud of yourself at the end of the year.
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You'll be proud of who you've become because work always fills the time that you give it.
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So you might as well give it as little amount of time for what you need to get done today
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and maximize for the work that you need to get done in order to set yourself up for the future.
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A study in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Progress showed that weekly planning boosts goal achievement by 40%.
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That's not a small number.
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That is the difference between you hitting your targets
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and you missing up on them or worse yet entirely giving up on them.
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Boredom is where you check in with yourself and it's where you ask.
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Am I acting like the person I want to become or am I just defaulting to who I've always been?
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Without this pause you drift, but the Sunday stillness forces you to close the gap between who you say you are
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and How you actually spend your time.
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So do a weekly reset every Sunday.
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Ask yourself, is this week moving me closer to I want to be?
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And if it's not, change where you're spending your time.
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Now that you know that boredom gives you clarity and better decision-making making, there's still one thing that kills clarity faster than anything, fear.
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Watch this next video so I can show you the five principles
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that will completely delete your fear of failure and unlock your full potential.
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