Andy Stumpf

They don't listen to me.

It always takes longer to do it wrong.

And those are the little shortcuts that we all take.

We tell ourselves, I'll do it later.

Or I don't have time to do it right now.

We all have the same amount of time.

It's where you're allocating your time.

Do it up front.

And I assure you, the McRaven speech about making your bed.

The number of parents that probably thought that was life-changing was just amazing.

Like, yes, somebody else is telling my kid to make the bed.

It's not actually about that.

It's about having the discipline to do the little things.

And it is way better at the end of the night when you're tired to come back to a bed that is made and ready for you to hop into than having to, and not most people would do this, but make it first and then get into it.

But it just gets worse and worse and worse.

And in the end, it will take you longer to correct for that than the individual action of just doing it right the first time.

What's your advice with respect to this?

I mean, I can give you the advice, but I also don't follow it all the time either.

Every single decision that you have in front of you in your life will have a slightly easier and a slightly harder choice.

Make the slightly harder one more often than the slightly easier one.