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Today is the second day of being productive.. Check.

Sometime in 2012 I looked in the mirror one day and thought to myself, I can’t be both bald and fat, I have to pick one. And being that losing weight was the easier, healthier, less expensive and risk averse of the two, I decided it was time to lose weight.

I thought to myself that this is going to be very easy, being that almost a decade earlier I lost 80+ pounds. I did it by becoming a vegetarian and played DDR for at least 3 hours a day (a lot of times continuously). But boy was I wrong about it being easy to do that again.  

I went to the area where all my work out equipment is, whipped the dust off, and decided to exercise …the next day. The next day I set a time to work out, but I ate 20 minutes before that time and then I had to wait an extra day. The next day I had an equally ridiculous excuse, but the day after I ran out of excuses. So I put on the workout program people were raving about and I tried it and thought I was going to die. 

The day after that, I worked out but couldn’t do half of what I did the day before. Then after that motivation to keep going was effortless. The next days kept feeling greater and greater. Fast forward to 2 years later and I hadn’t missed a single day, I was 40 pounds lighter, but this time with muscle weighing me down. Everything was amazing again, I felt like I was on top of the world, yet again. I was becoming more social, being more productive, and I was a much more positive person. That positivity was contagious, everyone was saying they were enjoying my company more, people could tell I was happy.

Until I pulled my back working out one day and I haven’t exercised since.

Yesterday was the New Year, and I thought to myself, this is a new beginning, why not use this as a catalyst for change. I’ve been waiting for something to spark my life into improvement, let it be the new year. I am going to implement everything I learned in the last year, and I’ll start with my health.

But first, I needed to see what went wrong to be able to fix it. I knew it wasn’t just the injuries that were at fault.

My pattern disruptions both when I tore my MC playing DDR (I know), and when I hurt my back lifting, only broke the chain.

It only disrupted the rhythmic pattern of my motivation, why was it that it took me a decade, and then later on 4 years to wait to fix my pattern disruption.

 For that I had to look back at why breaking consistency was so detrimental. I realized now that back then, I no longer was getting my dopamine and oxytocin fix from checking off the days where I was on track off my work out list. Every time I knew I was out of commission for days to come it was game over. My mindset would forget about what my long term is and I needed to feel good immediately by eating unhealthily, which I did in copious amounts undoing everything I learned and worked hard for. In a way my brain turned off, as if with a switch, instantly.

Later I learned that there are environments that put us in these states where our emotions take over and we stop thinking rationally, or at least that part of the brain gets hijacked by the other. I also learned that in order to avoid that, we should avoid the things as much as possible that put these conditions on us, but when they do, we should go back to the good habits as much as possible, and that won’t happen if you give up on your long term goals. Keep them where you can see them every day. And remind yourself that if something happened, be it beyond your control or not, you have something to strive for.

Stay tuned for more specific action items for how to keep your long term goal in check, and I’ll talk a bit more on consistency tomorrow isA.

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New Year, New Tiz

It is the new year and I’m going to be annoying and in your face about how I’m a completely different person now, and this time I won’t quit after two days, and that I’ll actually stick to it this time and do that thing that I’ve always wanted to do. Which is maintain a creative business and help as many people as possible do the same.

Well …realistically speaking, I’ve given up on my goals multiple times and I’ve even had hundreds of people who held me accountable, but momentum stopped at some point and it became increasingly difficult to get back up. Normally I would think that means that seeing my history, eventually, I’ll go back to my old ways of being lazy and not productive, and I’ll break my productivity habits and systems.

Maybe that’s true, who knows, but that’s ok, if that happens I’ll remind myself to get back into it and start again. Life is nothing more than people stumbling their way into outcomes. And it’s their decisions at every moment that determines how to cope with whatever happens. It’s fine if I lose momentum. As long as I start back up, I’ll be doing what I want to do, the outcome doesn’t matter.

The same way that in statistics, you can’t determine future actions based on past outcomes, I can’t tell for sure if I will fail again or not. 

Human behavior in general is determined by a whole lot of uncontrollable and controllable variables, and it’s up to me to focus on what I can control and not worry about the rest. 

I am starting with first first step of identifying my goal and visualizing success. A pro basketball player visualizes the swoosh before they throw the ball, and a successful entrepreneur visualizes themselves rich before they invest in an idea. And that’s how I’m starting this new reboot of my life. I’m visualizing the swoosh, I basically did everything I need to do already in my mind, and now I’m more driven to take massive action.

If I visualize failure because of my previous failures I’ll only catalyze the self-fulfilling prophecy into action. But I can’t do the same thing again. A wise scientific genius once said something along the lines of: Insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting a different outcome.

So here is what I did differently from last year when I started thinking about today. I started to look at where I went wrong, identify the situations that lead me to it, and get rid of the blocks and reinforced my weaknesses, and strengthened my strong points. I knew that everyone was different, and different things work for different people. So I had to find my specific issues and strengths. Yours might be the same or different from mine.

I realized I was too spread out, unfocused, unmotivated, too many passions at the same time, too many distractions, too many things pulling me in all sorts of directions, and I wasn’t improving. So I sought out to identify what went wrong and I started fixing everything one by one, slowly.

I bought a few focus classes to help me stay on track, I learned about the brain and how it works, I learned about motivation and will power, I learned about myself, my strengths, my weaknesses, I took a lot of tests, I learned everything there is to know about how to optimize myself and started implementing what I learned slowly and with purpose.

I organized my time, made checklists, made my goals clear and put them within view, made my distractions known and developed systems of keeping them in check. Everything was in order, good habits were formed, bad habits were completely gone, and I surrounded myself with amazing people from all over the world online, and got rid of a lot of people who brought me down.

Everything was leading up to this year. This is the year, God willing, that I plan on changing everything about myself for the better. This time it’s for real, and if something happens and I don’t achieve everything, at least I aimed for the stars, I can only fail and hit the moon.

This blog will not be about myself, it will be about you. It will be about how I got myself out of some super destructive things that I’m sure you can relate with me on, and got myself motivated and on the way to a successful business, God willing.

I will walk you though what I did, and what I plan on doing to get you to succeed in doing what you love to do and accomplish your goals just like I am doing.

If you are feeling the same way I felt, then keep a look out for my daily posts. I will be walking you through what I did and stumble along side you to success, God willing.

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#motivation #Monday on a #Tuesday is a quote from #Winston #churchill about #success #lettering #inspiration #handlettering #inspirationalquotes

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This #logo I'm working on can count as a #language #sunday alto means high in Italian and Spanish coming from their shared origin, Latin meaning high and to make high. #lettering #handlettering #altofly #travel #app

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It's Saint Pepsi #bish #anythinggoes #saturday #lettering #handlettering

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#fake #logo #Friday is for Freezing Beaver's Goose-eh Mousse, a maple syrup mousse. Canada's finest. #handlettering #lettering #imisstimhortons #fakelogo

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From my break ...well there's more to it than that. Traveling, then hospitalization, then getting busy, then Ramadan, then just straight up laziness. But the best way to get back into things is to just jump right in even if you're not ready and you'll be ready. I've done 100 consecutive posts with no preparation for more than a day and I'm sure I can do it again isA. More on snapchat @motizzy but I truly from the bottom of my heart apologize for my absence and I'll do my best to provide that daily content that you guys know and love. #tizzyisback #handlettering #lettering #nofilter #sirlettersalot

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Couldn't have been a better day for a #nerd #Wednesday and I only have 5 minutes to draw and post this since I'm traveling and packing a whole lot of activities in this short amount of time. #lettering #project365 #handlettering #maythefourthbewithyou #starwars #maythefourth

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#tutorial #Tuesday is the katakana ra. So as I might have mentioned before Japanese has 5 vowels (あ、ァ、A, い、イ、ii, う、ウ、u, え、e, andお、オ o) and the rest (except Nん、and technically wa わワ and its group) are consonant and vowel combinations. So there is no R, it goes Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro. Ma, Mi, Mu, Me, Mo... Etc. And katakana is the system used for borrowed words from other languages and foreign names (also old fax machines). anyway this isn't language Sunday so here is how the Ra is written in katakana. Ill probably explain it in more detail later. #handlettering #project365 #lettering

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#motivation #Monday has a bit of #travel #Thursday since it's a picture I took, but a lot of people tell me that they don't like to travel, and I can see that but unless they've really traveled around I would still tell them to travel more. It's good for your soul, it honestly does wonders to people. A friend of mine just said that being at the right time comes when you're in the right place. So think of where you really want to go, and just go there. Make a plan and arrange a way to treat yourself or else you'll never know for yourself. #project365 #lettering #handlettering

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#language #Sunday is of a really cool kanji combo of electricity (den) and talking (hanashi or wa) which means telephone when combined together(denwa). As you may know from my snapchat @motizzy I'm Japaning pretty hard right now so it's going to be a lot of Japan related posts for a bit. #moshimoshi #jesusdesu #project365 #handlettering #lettering

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#anything #goes #Saturday I honestly am not sure what day it is anymore, my time is Saturday, my scheduled post for yesterday hasn't gone up till a few minutes ago so it's either a program error or it's still early Friday. Sorry it's really hard to create daily content when you're traveling, but I promised myself I'd do it. #project365 #lettering #handlettering

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#fake #logo #friday is for this magical fake company that offers this imaginary yet available everywhere service. #ineedinternet #help #thankyou #latergramme

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#travel #thursday #project365 #lettering #handlettering #shanghai

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It's #nerd #wednesday my dudes, this time nerding out to a good old favorite, #lionmaru a show about a samurai who transforms into a lion ...and what's even weirder is that I only watched it in Italian for practice, so there was plenty of confusion mixed in with that pure nerdilicious joy. #project365 #handlettering #lettering

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The letter seen, #Arabic S #tutorial #tuesday in the stand alone form. #naskh style big changes coming up that I'll be announcing tonight and tomorrow morning on snapchat. Help me make some big decisions by voting for it tomorrow via my account handle: motizzy