Read this recently and thought it fitting as my first post…
What I now glorify:
• Sleeping 8 hours
• Regular physical activity
• Unstructured schedules
• Working in short sprints
Control of your time is the true status symbol.
Taking Everyone's Advice
You're going to get a lot of advice from a lot of people.
Most of it is well-intentioned...and also utter crap.
It's dangerous to use someone else's map to navigate your world.
Learn to filter and selectively implement—take the signal, skip the noise.
But an honest assessment concluded time wasn’t to blame—my focus was.
Hold your focus to the fire—force it to level up.
Inactivity
Your body was made to move.
Consistent daily activity is essential to your health, brain function, and happiness. :)
You don't need to have an complex regimen.
Each day minimum:
• Walk for 30 min
• Raise your HR for 30 min
• Mobility work for 5 min
Keep it simple.
Finding the truth is much more important than being right.
The most successful people legitimately enjoy being wrong.
Instead of arguing your position— Ask *great* questions.
Learn to embrace new information as “software updates" that improve upon the old.
Inaction
Overthinking and paralysis is often just a result of inaction. (GUILTY)
The first movement is always the hardest—so just start moving. (YES!)
A body in motion tends to stay in motion.
Maintaining a bias for action allows you to capitalize on opportunities that compound effectively.
Multitasking
Multitasking is “fake” productivity.
You think you're crushing it but you're just running around churning out a bunch of C+ work.
Build your day around focused sprints. 60 minutes works well.
Compartmentalize and focus on the one key task at hand.
Waiting for the Perfect Moment
This bad habit has paralyzed would-be action-takers for generations.
The harsh reality: there is no such thing as the perfect moment.
Sometimes you just have to open the door, jump out of the plane, and hope you packed the parachute tight.(Yikes!)
Want to get ahead in life? Start genuinely rooting for others to succeed.
When one of us wins, we all win—winning spreads.
If you adopt that mentality, you’ll become a magnet for the highest quality people.
Beating Around the Bush
Hard conversations are...hard.
Being direct is the way.
Great advice: The other person should know what you're there to talk about within 30 seconds. Beating around the bush doesn't soften the blow, it just makes it more shocking.
Money is a byproduct of the value you create.
Create value, receive value. If you focus on creating immense value for the people you work with, you'll find a way to make money.
Create value—then create leverage to scale the value you can create.
Focusing on the Urgent
It's easy to jump from one urgent task to the next. But when you focus on the short-term urgent, you lose sight of the long-term important. Spend most of your time focused on long-term important tasks--the compounders.
Delegate or delete the rest.