Break the Twitch
Love Your Attention, Build Better Habits
In October at SimpleREV I had the opportunity to share the story that became part of the reason why Break The Twitch exists today. After reviewing four years of Amazon Prime order history I realized that I had a serious problem. I had spent about five to six international plane tickets worth of money on $20-100 dollar items delivered in two days via Amazon.com.
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If you don’t consider yourself to be a minimalist nor desire to be one, then you may not understand what minimalism can do for you. You have a lot to gain from thinking like a minimalist, and here’s why.
The modern economic environment has been developed into a massive machine with only one mission:
Separate you from your time and money as frequently (and efficiently) as possible.
[Read more…] about Minimalism: It’s Not What You ThinkI used to buy a lot of books. Personal development books, business books, investment management books, entrepreneurship books, you get the idea. I’ve read at least several chapters of 100 different books on the previous topics and have learned a ton from doing it. The problem is that I got to a certain point and I realized I wasn’t actually getting anywhere.Buying books was one of my personal Twitches. My brain was telling me that I was being productive and accomplished something significant (in a single click) by buying a tool that would help me get to my end goal. I was using the purchase of a new book as a ‘false first step‘ towards accomplishing what I really needed to do. You can see that I had a habit of taking ‘false first steps’ via Amazon.com in many ways even outside of books.
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