The Lifestyle Architect

Whatever it is, lose the weight, quit smoking, learn a new skill, or finally go after what you actually want, it starts the same way. You decide. Then you master three things.

Your willingness to take total responsibility for the outcome. How you talk to yourself. And your ability to get yourself to do the things you need to do.

Those are the hard things. Everything else is easy.

The opposite of responsibility is victimhood. You can make excuses or you can make it happen, but you cannot do both. Blame everyone and everything, and life happens to you. Take responsibility, and life starts happening for you, by you. Keep climbing and it happens through you.

Today is the result of decisions you have already made, and not one of them can be changed. But a decision you make today changes everything that comes after it.

What if the life you keep picturing is sitting on the other side of one?

It will not be easy. There is only one obstacle in your way, and it is you.

Are you ready?

Here is your manual. Let us begin.

I'm Matt Stefanik. I dropped out of college in 2001 and started flipping houses. I thought that was going to be my life until I lost all of it in the 2007 crash. I didn't fold and go get a job. I rebuilt from zero in affiliate marketing, info-products, physical products, software, consulting and a local services company. I've made millions and lost it all now twice.

I've been with my wife Amy for 25+ years, we have three adult children and a grandson, and I've never missed anything for them.

I've read or listened to over 500 personal development books since I was 14. This book is the culmination of my journey - good and bad, up and down, but never, ever quitting. It's also the foundation of GOALD, the habit app I built so you can put these commandments to work every day.