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Most people live their lives in complete mediocrity, never being aware of their bad, good habits, and the way they impact their lives over time. They allow external circumstances to control them and decisions that they make, achieving other people’s goals instead of their own.

Life can be difficult at times. No matter where you currently are, it will throw challenges, trials, and tribulations at you to test how much you truly want what you say you want. All these events are merely tests that show what you’re truly made of.

If you want to fix your life, prepare to crush these tests, and come out victorious, you need to use the power of good habits. You need to cultivate positive actions that compound over time and lead to great results.

Good habits work for all people, no matter what their age, wealth, gender, status, or past are. Even if you’re a complete loser today, you can still make a great comeback and become more successful in just a year.

There are 7 fundamental habits that every man should have, and that create the most results in life. Ready to overcome mediocrity and start becoming a better man? Then keep reading.

1: Working Out

This is the most important and popular good habit for people to have. Especially in the recent years has the number of people going to the gym, or doing other types of exercise has increased greatly, which signifies that men are starting to wake up.

Life is all about movement. If you don’t exercise, move, or use your body for productive efforts, you won’t have good health. Working out through weightlifting and calisthenics not just gives you basic benefits of exercise, such as better blood flow, immune system, increased mood, and energy, but other even more significant benefits.

Being able to bench press 100 kg, or do 60 pushups in a single set makes you extremely confident in your ability to achieve and conquer goals. Exercising with your own weight or iron shapes your body beautifully (if done correctly, of course), boosts your self-image, builds discipline, and helps kill excuses your mind creates to avoid productive discomfort.

Start working out by either going to the gym, or doing basic calisthenics exercises 3-4 times a week. Divide your exercise days into muscle groups that you’re going to train (for example, Monday is for chest and triceps, Wednesday is for legs, and Friday is for back and biceps).

To grow muscle and be in a better shape, it isn’t enough to just do pushups or bicep curls for an hour and call it a day. Recovery after you finish exercising is 2 times more important than the act of exercising itself. Eat a protein-rich meal after your workout and sleep well, so that your muscles can heal the micro-traumas you cause to your body.

For full exercising and bodybuilding guide, click here.

2: Reading

In the XXI century, information is everywhere you see. Thanks to Internet, you can access almost any manuscript ever written and learn tons of valuable advice that you can implement to grow and make progress.

You can also access the opposite types of content, too. Degenerate content is just as easy to access as books and guides, and it brings no value other than entertainment. Other than that, if watched regularly, short-form content can and will damage your brain.

It’s easier than ever to learn and grow in life, thanks to all the resources available on the web. Sadly, only 20% of people read on a regular basis. Interestingly though, those same 20% of people achieve the most results among all other people. Why?

Reading great and inspiring books teaches you life lessons, practical strategies, and valuable advice that will upgrade you upon implementing, and more importantly, reprogram your mindset from misery and mediocrity to growth and progress. It is one of the good habits that every man must have to cure their problems.

Start this habit by reading 5-10 pages of good and inspirational books every evening. Put aside your phone, remove distractions, and focus on reading at least a few pages. Even though 5 or 10 pages doesn’t seem like a lot, if will compound over time and make you a much wiser person in just a single year.

3: Meditating

Whenever an average person thinks about meditation, he always imagines some Shaolin monk sitting in mountains, making weird noises and being obsessed with Buddha’s teachings.

In my opinion, meditating is a habit that should be done by every person in the world. Most violence in our society is caused by unconsciousness – state of consciousness when the mind takes control and misdirects an individuals actions towards the wrong things. Meditating and cultivating mindfulness is a good habit that can help counter this tendency and make our world more peaceful.

What personal benefits does it have for you, though? The truth is that meditating grearly enhances focus, attention span, ability to concentrate and work for hours at a time, making you a more effective worker. In the modern world, where most people cannot focus for longer than a minute, meditating will help you excel in your craft and achieve more results than the mediocre masses.

Aside from that, meditating regularly will kill your overthinking and clear your mind. Imagine how it would feel to live without thousands of negative thoughts rushing into your head every minute of your existence.

This is what meditation does to you: it erases brain fog, unnecessary thoughts, and conserves your brainpower for more important activities, and entrenches you deeply in the Now – the only time period where we can truly exist and live.

Start meditating by reading this guide to understand how exactly this habit works, and how you can use it to live better than most people.

4: Gratitude Journaling

There are many bitches and weak-minded people in our society. No matter where they live, or what their quality of life is, they always find a reason to complain: their boss is a bitch, or they don’t earn money they deserve to earn (yeah, just keep wasting time on Facebook while you’re at the shift), or they get offended by shit someone posts on the Internet.

Listen, I know that every person has tons of wishes, and that not all of them can be turned into reality. However, constant complaining does nothing good for you. It only makes you focus on what you lack, and as a result, it creates a neverending void inside your heart that cannot be filled, no matter how hard you try. This is why you should learn how to stop complaining.

Not all wishes can be granted, and not all problems can be solved in an instant. In difficult moments of life, we need to do the opposite of whining – we need to focus on what we do have, and realize how good our life really is.

What Gratitude Journaling Does for you

This is where gratitude journaling comes into play – it shifts your focus towards good things that you already possess, no matter how small or insignificant they seem. Being grateful that you have these things on a regular basis will make you a much happier, fulfilled, and productive person. Instead of wasting time and energy on being angry for not having something, you will experience abundance and motivation to put things you already have towards better use.

Start gratitude journaling by buying a simple notebook and writing down 5 things you’re grateful for in it every morning. Express gratitude for your house, bed, clothes, food, water, air, family, nature, and other things you possess. See just how much better you’ll feel after that.

5: Learning New Things

Evey human being needs to learn in order to succeed. We all need to consume new information that can help us reach our goals and desired outcomes with efficiency.

Aside from that, to be a valuable worker and succeed in the attention economy, we must possess skills and qualities that will help us create valuable products, capture, hold attention, and generate more sales.

The truth is that if you keep wasting time on TikTok, Instagram, partying, watching porn, hentai, and doing other degenerate activities everyone else indulges in, you will be like everyone else. You will be broke (or at least have money shortage), stupid, physically weak, and lazy.

Most people don’t succeed, or at least live a decent life, because they spend their time and attention on things that, in the grand scheme of things, don’t matter. Do the exact opposite: learn new skills that will help you make money, and learn new languages that will help you see the world from unique and diverse perspectives.

Be a lifelong learner, and always seek new lessons both from other resources, and your own personal experience. If you want a more detailed guide on learning, click here.

6: Deep Working

Modern work environment is ineffective at producing actual results. Countless companies and corporations promote cooperative initiatives, such as email, meetings, PowerPoint presentations, and calls. Despite all the info exchanged on a regular basis, most workers don’t seem to make much progress on a regular basis.

All these cooperative tasks I’ve mentioned above are shallow work – easy to do tasks that require no big effort or concentration, and that produce little value. On the contrast – there is deep work – long, focused, uninterrupted work done to push one’s cognitive abilities to their limits and produce maximum value.

Want a simple success secret? Drastically reduce time you spend on shallow work, and drastically increase time you invest into deep work.

The next time you sit down to do a big project, clean up your desktop, remove eye-catching objects, turn off your phone, prepare a glass of water, and work intensely for 2 hours straight. No excuses.

It is a million times more fulfilling to create and produce value than to scroll and consume like everyone else. If you want success, be willing to put in the effort. Click here for a detailed deep work guide.

7: Being in Nature

Finally, the last good habit that every man should possess is being in nature. For thousands of years, we as a species lived in touch with nature and other living creatures. We lived in forests, steppes, mountains, hunted for food, went to river for water, and harvested edible fruits like berries and apples.

Yes, this lifestyle was dangerous. Yes, you were more likely to die by predator or starvation. But back in those periods humans were happier, because they lived the way they were naturally supposed to – experienced discomfort, provided for their communities, and made progress in personal growth.

What about today? Our brains haven’t changed a lot since ancient times, and we have drastically different lifestyles. We live sheltered, comfortable lives. Men and women can lock themselves up in their houses and do self-destructive habits all day long.

When all the time we spend is in limited spaces with little fresh air and on activities that literally kill our brains, is it any wonder that so many people struggle with mental health and wellbeing these days?

Don’t be like most people. Go outside and touch grass every day for at least 15 minutes. This will clear your mind, help you destress, give you worthy ideas, and nourish your soul.

Summary

There are 7 habits every man must do to obtain more success and personal growth in less time. Working out, reading, meditating, gratitude journaling, learning new things, deep working, and spending time in nature. These activities will help you improve all spheres of life.

Amazing mental health, calm and peaceful mind, unshatterable focus, healthy and good-looking body, bigger wealth and income, more wisdom and knowledge – these are just a fraction of benefits that you’ll receive from building them.

It takes 21 days to turn an activity into a regular and subconscious habit. Commit yourself to do each one of them every day for at least 2 weeks. Use additional strategies to help you succeed in changing your lifestyle. It will be hard at first, but after witnessing the benefits they bring, you will want more. Eventually, you’ll find yourself being the best version of you, simply thanks to meditating for 10 minutes, writing 5 gratitude sentences, reading 10 pages, and exercising for 30 minutes daily.

Time passes by, whether you like it or not. Would you rather wake up a wealthy, healthy, and smart man a year from now, or would you rather stay average and weak? The choice is yours, brother.

If you have any questions, or want to share your opinion about the post, feel free to write them down in the comments below. See you next time.