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Sorting Out Your Habits & Priorities

90% of success is just doing these basic things over and over again.

Matthew Larsen
September 30, 2024

Get Your Habits & Priorities Dialed In

One of the things that I have found most interesting over the years is that once you get your habits, routine and priorities sorted out and systematized, you feel like nothing is happening.

All I do on a daily basis is the following things:

Make a YouTube video
Write a newsletter
Spend an hour working on the product
Spend an hour writing a book
Respond to client questions
Taking sales calls + following up with previous sales calls

That is only six things that take a total of maybe four hours (not including the sales calls).

There are hundreds, if not thousands of things that someone could be working on for their business at any given time.

When you narrow it down to just six in this case, or however many it is for your business, you feel kind of bad about yourself. It feels like you are not really doing anything. It feels very basic and very boring.

But, in reality, these are the only six things that I could do that would lead to a bigger business for myself. These things will be different for different types of businesses, but for me, this is it.

Once you get these dialed in, it becomes more about your ability to “stomach” the feeling that you are not actually doing anything, and just do the same basic things over and over again, except better in terms of quality and volume.

90% of success is just doing these basic, boring things over and over again (but better) for years and years at a time. I would argue that the ability to do this is one of the most important skills you can develop. Most people know what they should be doing. These things will almost always be obvious, regardless of the type of business. Most people just never develop the skill needed to just keep doing them over and over again without stopping, for years at a time.