The Best Minute: Going to bed, achieving success, and motivating people

1 PERSONAL GROWTH SOLUTION FROM ME

If you want to get to bed at a consistent time every night, make going to bed easy.

It's time for bed, but you're too tired to get up and do everything you have to do to get ready for bed. So you sit there longer and longer until you finally muster up the energy to go to bed.

Sound familiar?

So now, right after dinner, I do the following things to reduce the friction I experience when it is actually time to go to bed:

Floss
Take out my contacts
Change my clothes
Pick out my clothes for the next day
Make my lunch for the next day
Set out any breakfast supplies I may need for the next day

This now means, when it is time for bed all I now have to do is brush my teeth.

To get to bed on time, do as much as you can to make going to bed easier before it is actually time for bed.

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2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. Scott Oldford on how to achieve success:

“Success is often mainly about getting clear on exactly what you want and then creating the environment that will produce those outcomes.”

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II. Lillian Moore shared a quick story that shows what really motivates people:

“A few months after my husband and I moved to a small Massachusetts town I grumbled to a resident about the poor service at the library, hoping she would repeat my complaints to the librarian. The next time I went to the library, the librarian had set aside two bestsellers for me and a new biography for my husband. What’s more, she appeared to be genuinely glad to see me.

Later I reported the miraculous change to my friend. “I suppose you told her how poor we thought the service was?” I asked.

“No,” she confessed. “In fact—I hope you don’t mind—I told her your husband was amazed at the way she had built up this small town library, and that you thought she showed unusually good taste in the new books she ordered.”

1 INTERESTING FACT

The original fire hydrant patent was lost in a fire.

The original fire hydrant patent is credited to Frederick Graff Sr., who was the chief engineer for Philadelphia Water Works during the early 1800s. Unfortunately, the patent was destroyed when the patent office in Washington, D.C., burned down in 1836. After 100 years, retired firefighter George Sigelakis reinvented the hydrant after they had been failing to work in too many critical emergencies.

Source: Gov Tech