Own the Day, Own Your Life

“At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work—as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I’m going to do what I was born for—the things which I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?’”

To live one day well is the same as to live ten thousand days well. To master twenty-four hours is to master your life.

The way to own your life is to own your day. Today. Because that’s all you have.

spread evenly and regularly across the day might not be possible. And that’s okay. The point is to recognize that cycles—and not total hours—might be the way to get your body the rest you need.

Contrary to the shitty advice that became popular over the last decade, you don’t want to be eating small snacks throughout the day. That is only good for athletes training at extremely high intensity.

Just one day. You gotta walk before you run, and a day is the first step. To own your life, you gotta own the day. You’re going to read this book, and then prepare to live one single day completely optimally.

ridiculous shit possible. The typical American breakfast, for example, is usually some combination of refined carbohydrates and sugar made conveniently available to us, in bulk, on the run, at rock-bottom prices by the great people of the breakfast-industrial complex.

consuming cold beverages while they eat. Any beverage dilutes the HCL in your stomach, making the overall acid concentration acting on your food weaker, while the cold slows down your digestion like a snake in a snowstorm. Leave the cold drinks for well before and well after your meals. This has the added

chess and Monopoly when I want to ignite my strategic fire. When I just want to laugh, I whip out Cards Against Humanity. And when I want to let my nerd flag fly with my nerd brethren from the multiverse, it’s Magic: The Gathering all the way. Planeswalkers for life, dawg!