Cal Newport<\/a> told me that, while in grad school, he noticed a lot of people became much better students after they had kids. This is paradoxical because children are time-consuming, and thus, it ought to be much harder to succeed academically.<\/p>\nI noticed something similar in myself, when I decided I wanted to run my own business. There were a lot of spillover benefits to other areas of my life, even though they weren\u2019t related to entrepreneurship. I started reading books, exercising regularly and eating healthier, for instance.<\/p>\n
The difficulty of the new challenge forces you to take things seriously. Cal\u2019s observation was that, with fearsome time constraints, procrastinating is out of the question. Taking studying seriously pushes you to do better than you might have, absent those constraints. In my case, becoming my own boss was a difficult enough goal that it forced me to build better habits throughout my life.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s Your Core Motivator?<\/h2>\n\n
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