How to Make 6 Years of Progress in 6 Months

Superior Performance Systems.

Hi friend,

Hope you’re well.

Here’s today’s newsletter at a glance:

1. Why Everyone Needs a Plan

2. 9 Rules to Change Your Life

3. Final Thoughts

Everyone Needs a Plan:

If you don’t know what you want, other people will tell you what you want. If you don’t have a plan, other people will make one for you.

Grab a notebook, open a document or just your notes app. Write out exactly what you want out of your future. Then break it down into goals.

A dream without clarity will always remain a dream.

9 Rules to Change Your Life

1. The Anti-Vision

Identify the exact things you don’t want out of your life. This is the life you don’t want. This will serve as a positive fear mechanism to move you away form the life you don’t want.

2. The Vision

Every decision you make in any domain of life needs to be filtered through a vision. That is how you bring meaning to your actions. Your vision is ever evolving. As you grow, it grows.

3. Standards

You aren’t going to get better if you are too comfortable being where you are. It’s you responsibility to hold yourself to a higher standard. Normalizing mediocrity kills your potential.

4. Goals

Breakdown you vision into goals for the decade, year, month, week and day. Make your goals simple and easy to chase. Your goals will change as you do.

Make them:

• Specific

• Measurable

• Achievable

• Time Bound

5. Projects

You learn from experience not memorization. Start the action, observe the areas you’re doing well and the ones you are not. Use that as a reference point for improvement.

6. Self-Education

If we only relied on what schools taught you to carry us to carry us through life, we’d be screwed. Daily self education is the best habit you can ingrain into your life. If you stop learning you stop evolving. Opportunities will eventually dry out because of that.

7. Challenge

You need to challenge yourself in order to improve. Without stress or an appropriate challenge you have no reason to change.

8. Curiosity

The more curious you are the wider your potential. Be open minded and constantly learn from your experiences.

9. Experimentation

There is no single right way. You hav to find the way that works best for you. Curiosity and experimentation go hand in hand. Try different things, observe the differences. Learn and adapt.

Final Thoughts:

Who you become tomorrow is the manifestation of your choices of today. Every decision you make now counts in creating the future you want tomorrow.

Understand the difference:

The strategy required to find a great opportunity - lots of saying yes and exploring widely.

The strategy required to make the most of a great opportunity - lots of saying no and remaining focused.

- James Clear

At different points in your life you’ll need both.

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Enjoy your weekend my friend!

See you next Saturday.