Motivation & Rules to Live By

Extraordinary results require extraordinary actions

  • 90% rationalize their emotions, 10% make rational decisions.
  • If you’re not willing to pay the price, you’re accepting captivity. 
  • Most people are time wasters without goals or priorities.
  • Bear good fruit.

Central Ideas

  • Time is the only thing you can’t buy back.
  • How much can you achieve in the limited hours, days, and years on this planet.
  • How are you spending your time, are you wasting it scrolling.
  • Use every second to build, to create, to move closer to the life you want.
  • Time is your most precious asset, don’t squander it.
  • Learn, network, build a business.
  • Think about how to buy time, now how to make money.
  • Money is a tool to live life on your terms.

Business Priorities

  • Maximize value driven events.
  • Offer solutions, help people.
  • Exchange money for time.
  • Learn more skills
  • Start in a narrow niche and then expand.

Create and follow frameworks for strategic thinking.

  • Track, habituative, and gamify positive behaviors.
  • Control environment to remove distractions.
  • 2-minute rule: Do tasks now if they take less than two minutes.
  • Do the hardest thing first.

Mindset

  • Avoid negativity
  • “I don’t do overwhelm” – Tom Bilyeu
  • Personal responsibility.
  • Be a fountain that overflows and provides energy rather than takes energy.

Feminine Energy

  • Stay in the land of vibe
  • Act properly, avoid goofy or cuddly
  • Be rooted in strength, unmovable
  • Avoid standardized heuristics
  • Be as you are, effortless is, born this way

Uncategorized

  • Find something you can be good or great at through focus. That’s your job to find that thing.
  • Life goes fast, ignore your brain.
  • Establish positive routines.
  • Make a plan, follow rules and standards you set for yourself.
  • Use spreadsheets to keep track of important things.
  • Wake up before dawn, go for a walk 1 or 1.5 hours before dawn.
  • Earn success with hard work.
  • Necessary work to be an asset and be needed to provide value.
  • Success from prestige vs power, choose merit/ability/action based methods rather than domination.
  • Face challenges and be resilient.
  • Failure informs change, and does not crush us.
  • Align current self with future self.
  • Physical behaviors: Stand tall, eye contact, speak clearly (diaphragm), avoid rising intonations, eliminate fillers (pause instead.)
  • Clearly define the future to reduce uncertainty and the consequential chronic negative emotions.
  • Pursue valued goals.
  • Actions shape our thoughts.
  • Have belief and trust in your ability and capacity for success.
  • Honor
  • What new ways of thinking do I need to develop and how do I get there.
  • “Good enough” and complacency is the enemy of great.