• During the 1st month of quarantine back in March/April, before I got the X3 Bar for my home workouts, I focused on improving my mobility (with this 15-minute routine). But since getting back to my workouts, my mobility work has taken a hit. I needed to design a new habit. One key to creating a habit that sticks is to create a simple "rule." These rules have 2 parts.
  • Part 1 is determining a reliable "trigger," some activity that is already in your routine, that precedes the new behavior.
  • Part 2 is doing 1 ridiculously simple step towards the desired habit. 

• With this simple rule, I've stretched every morning this week. Behavioral psychology is one of my favorite subjects, and I've been doing a deep dive recently, so I'll be experimenting and sharing more here soon.

• From my favorite business / philosopher:

• If you know what problem you are trying to solve you're already halfway there. To go all the way, here are 10 methods you can apply to that problem that will likely solve it. I'm always thinking about the "The Totem Pole" (Method 3), and getting relentlessly honest about what really needs to be done. In any endeavor there are always a million things that can and need to be done, but usually just 1 thing at the top of the totem pole. The "Honest Assessment" (Method 5) is also a fantastic tool, painful, but fantastic.

📺 What I'm watching:

• There is an Indian mystic, Sadhguru, who I've heard of in passing, but have never studied any of his teachings in depth. He kept popping up in my social media feeds this week, so I decided to watch this yogi chat with neuroscientist, David Eagleman. While not the best workout material (which is when I watch youtube / listen to podcasts), I thoroughly enjoyed the conversation that ranged from brain science to quantum mechanics to meditation.

• The financial news of the week was Apple hitting a $2 trillion market cap. It has doubled in just the last 2 years. With growth like this you'd expect that the company had either expanded its customer base or innovated with a new product. But that's not really what happened. So how did they double the size of the company without significantly increasing their customer base or new product innovation? Well CNBC got 5 investors to weigh in on the company's valuation, and I tend to agree with Jenny Harrington's comments – that most of this "growth" might be a bit misleading.