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, minimize your own.
- 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, provide value.
- 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 emotionally 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
Whiteboard Quips
- Find something you can be good or great at through focus.
- 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.
- Align current self with future self.
- Physical behaviors: Stand tall, eye contact, speak clearly (diaphragm), avoid rising intonations, eliminate fillers (pause instead.)
- Pursue valued goals.
- Actions shape our thoughts.
- 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.
- Work ethic is a reflection of gratitude
- Nothing matters except execution
- Personal responsibility
- An idle mind or a mind at rest is sin’s playground. Get busy.
- Clearly define future to reduce uncertainty.
- Take the leap
- Believe and trust in capacity, ability, capability for success
- Failure informs change, not crushes
- Schedule prayer time
- Eliminate negative energy
- Be a fountain of positive energy, not a leech
- We’re meant to work for our whole lives, may as well make the best of it.
- “…bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.”2Cor10:5
8 Daily Habits from Dan Martell
- Start on hard mode, do the hard thing first.
- Exercise daily
- Measure daily. Keep track of goals so you can see progress towards them.
- Gives visibility to growth.
- Gamefies growth.
- Problems are solved with high precision measurement. Break down each step.
- What you focus on will expand.
- Look where to step
- Learn Daily
- Break through complexity ceilings
- Read books that are applicable to you for the number 1 problem.
- Read books to serve others, what value can you add to their life
- Teach daily
- Post on social media
- Make content
- Prepare for tomorrow
- Review day at end of day
- Write down things still undone
- Go to bed at 9
- Keep a do not do list
- Let go of things to make space
- Stop low value tasks, delegate
- Keep it dry (do not repeat yourself)
- Create a checklist
- Document a process that can be systemized and done by someone else
- Run your systems or a lack of system will run you
- Having systems in your life create the foundation for success
The Most Important Skill To Learn In The Next 10 Years From Devon Eriksen
- Learning how to learn: Education should center on developing self-education skills, enabling lifelong adaptability and growth.
- Agency over intelligence: Success stems from taking action and persistence, not just raw intelligence. Agency includes resilience to failure and a willingness to experiment.
- Feedback loop: Progress requires iterative learning through action and refinement, which intelligence alone cannot achieve.
- Teaching agency: Agency, unlike intelligence, is teachable. Encouraging belief in the solvability of “hard” problems builds resilience and self-reliance.
- Parental role: Instilling agency in children is critical, as it enables them to address challenges independently throughout life.
- Build belief like a muscle: Train confidence by setting achievable goals, progressing incrementally, and embracing the process of improvement.
- Embrace imperfection: Overcoming shame about current abilities and “permission to suck” are essential to growth and learning.
- Learning is adaptive: Plans will evolve, and successful learning depends on moving forward and adjusting through feedback loops.
- Action over perfection: Starting and iterating is more valuable than waiting for the perfect moment or plan.
- Human uniqueness: Our defining trait is the ability to learn and adapt to new goals, unlike task-specific AI systems.
- Thriving requires teamwork; success isn’t achieved in isolation.
- Growth begins with permission to fail; improvement demands starting as a beginner.
- Embrace the struggles of early stages; they are necessary steps toward success.
- Progress requires accepting imperfection and resisting ego-based excuses.
- Money reflects how much people value your work, signaling genuine impact.
- Earning isn’t selfish; it’s about delivering what people find valuable.
16 Lessons From 2024 – Chris Williamson
- Don’t Aim for Mediocre
- Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
- Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. (Tim Ferris 8-5-23)
- If you are the type of person that is regularly surprised by how well you do, this may be about you.
- What if things were going to go better than you assumed. What if it was going to go well because you’re talented and you end up earning what you deserve over a long enough time horizon.
- I’m certain that most capable people don’t believe in themselves enough and a lack of confidence killed more dreams than a lack of competence ever did.
- Self doubt seems to be bundled into a package deal along with potential.
- Self doubt cases risk avoidance and performance criticizing.
- There is a guy out there with half your talent but ten times your self belief making five times the money. (George Mack)
- Everyone is jealous of what you’ve got, no one is jealous of how you got it.
- No man wants to become something, every man wants to be something already. (Johan Wolfgang)
- The world belongs to optimists because if you’re going to do anything big you have to believe its going to happen otherwise it never will. (Alex Hormozi)
- No one deserves to be praised for kindness if he does not have the strength to be bad. (La Rouchefouchald)
- If I can’t trust your no I can’t trust your yes. (Joe Hudson)
- Setting boundaries and creating a kind of rigidity and structure to yourself is important.
Marcus Aurelius Daily Routine
- Wakes up early, starts with tough tasks, and journals first, avoiding distractions like phones.
- Stays focused at work, meets people, listens to feedback and criticism.
- Life isn’t just about work; Marcus enjoys boxing, wrestling, walking in nature, feeling connected to it, and reading and studying philosophy in peaceful spots.
- Takes regular baths, as Romans valued bathing.
- Stays calm, even in stressful moments. Marcus saw stress as a chance to practice virtue.
- Never lets emotions control his actions.
- Reads to learn and improve, not just for fun.
- Reviews his day, noting what went right or wrong, and journals to get better.
- Thinks about each day as if it were his last, pondering what he could do better if given another chance tomorrow.
A Set of Standards
- Put God first, listen to God-given path and purpose. This allows you to retain aura, radiate vibe.
- Conquer your fears and weaknesses. Overcome this daily by persevering.
- You are a byproduct of your habits and actions. Not infotainment.
- Level up. Health, wealth, relationships, 360 degree focus on attraction.
- Live your life the way you want, regardless of other’s opinions. Be rock solid and congruent in that identity.
- Your body is a temple, and needs to be cared for. Remove vices. Only consume good nourishment.
- Man must be stronger than temptations. Say no to vices, which seem good but are deceiving.
- Follow purpose and calling in life. Not just money, which suppresses aura due to misalignment. Maximize potential and following purpose will radiate the energy that comes from liking who you are and your path. Money is a byproduct of the habits that lead to success.
- Be in nature outside daily.
90 Day Habits
The only way to stay disciplined is to want your goals bad enough. Build yourself into who you need to become. SMV is in the gutter due to not being congruent. Maximize your God given identity, this will increase vibe, energy, look. Increase self beyond limits. Most men’s lifestyle and daily actions remove masculinity and God given creativity. New habits and actions create a new you. Create a charged aura that signals potency. Signal capability, able. Prove we can stick to our goals, defeat vices, increase flame from 3 to 10. Men are made when it comes to understanding that you have to do hard things and you watch yourself persevere. Instant gratification, cheat codes, effortless results do not exist. If I don’t want to do something, realize someone else will, and will outcompete. Drive, purpose, discipline, confidence, self-belief. This increases aura and smv. Attraction comes from a discrepancy in smv, demonstrate this effortlessly through internal high value beliefs that is demonstrated through speaking and externally.