Why is improvement hard?
Part of the issue is everyone wants to improve, but nobody wants to destroy. Change often requires destruction. Or, at least, unlearning.
Let's call it gentle elimination. You may have to leave little habits, update current beliefs, eliminate comfortable patterns. When you want better outcomes, your daily norms may need to change. The process of improvement is not just about adding things you like.
Sometimes habits and patterns belong to who you were, not who you are trying to be. If you'd like something better, then a routine you are comfortable with may have to die.
"People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures."
- F. Matthias Alexander 
A powerful truth.
F. Matthias Alexander (the man behind the Alexander Technique) understood something most people miss: the future isn’t decided in dramatic moments or big declarations. It’s quietly assembled, day after day, through the small, repeated patterns of how we use ourselves—how we sit, stand, speak, think, react, and move.
Your habits are the operating system running in the background. Most of the time we don’t even notice them. We think we’re choosing our path, when really we’re just running yesterday’s software on repeat.
The genius of Alexander’s work was showing that these habits aren’t fixed. With awareness and a different kind of attention, we can interrupt the automatic and choose something better. Not through force or willpower, but through conscious inhibition and redirection.
So the real question the quote leaves us with is:
What habits are you currently rehearsing that are quietly building the person you’ll become?
Because you’re not just living your habits…
you’re becoming them.
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14. "Boring industries have little competition, since most people are seeking status in glamorous new fields. Find an old industry and solve an old problem in a new way."
15. "Instead of making a key, then looking for a lock, find something locked, then make its key."
11. "The world needs more boldness. Refuse the comfortable addiction of a steady paycheck."
12. "Instead of thinking of customers as leading to a sale, think of each sale as leading to a life-long relationship with a customer."
How broke people buy:
→ “Will I be able to afford this?”
How rich people buy
→ “Will this solve my problem?”
Completely different sales conversation for the same exact product.
His name is Egejurum Onyedikachi, and he is a genius.
Let that sink in.
He is in Primary 6 but does wonders with mathematics that make SS3 students tremble.
The world will know him and celebrate him.
He is currently with me in Rome to challenge champions from other countries this Saturday.
None of this is secret knowledge.
It's just what happens when no one teaches you money in school, the people who figure it out early pull ahead quietly, and everyone else wonders why the gap keeps widening.
You now know the 5 habits.
Which one are you starting this week? Drop your comments
5. Treat income like a skill, not a salary.
School taught you to trade time for a fixed number.
The wealthiest people you know don't think in salaries. They think in value created, problems solved, leverage built.
One micro book. One skill sold online. One problem solved for the right person.
That's a second income stream, not a fantasy.
It starts smaller than you think. It compounds faster than you expect.