The Least Effective Form of Thinking

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I finished reading my 52nd book of the year a while back, Zero Resistance Living, by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, where he says that worry is the least effective form of thinking.

What does it even accomplish?

How many high-performers do you know that give in to it on a regular basis? Allow it to creep into their lives and not ruthlessly snuffed out?

Damn-near nobody. Because it serves no…purpose. None.

Strategic planning? Foresight? Anticipation of difficulties so you can prepare for them? Sure. All these things have value.

But worry? It’s the least effective form of thinking and will do nothing for you.

Luckily, it has a pretty simple cure.

I could string you along until tomorrow’s email, but I’m not going to do that to you :)

It’s action. The cure for worry is action.

Be so damn busy improving your life and beating your problems f&cking senseless that you have no time to worry.

You’ve got too much work to do - too much living to do - to spend any more than exactly zero time worrying.

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Note: “Week Two” Runs From August 11th-17th

Woke Up: 1:00PM

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Workout: Rest Day

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Another SOLID day in the books, and I’m extremely pleased with how today went. Except for one thing.

I haven’t been as consistent on YouTube as I said I’d be (and I made so much noise about it too, which makes it especially humbling), and that needs to be improve.

That being said, I could have rushed out a video tonight and published SOMETHING, except I knew it wouldn’t be my best work. I would rather take my time and publish something I can be proud of than publish for the sake of publishing. Still, I should have published something today haha.

Tomorrow, though, there WILL be a new YouTube video going up, I’m going to be aggressively updating my various social media platforms, and I’m also to batch-create a lot of content for next week.

But hey, it’s 4:53AM here right now and I’m going to bed!

All the best,

Matt Karamazov

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