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Shaping Your Mind

<aside> 🧠 The quality of your mind is the quality of your life.

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<aside> 🔥 You build your character, then your character becomes your destiny. -Naval

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<aside> 🌎 With our minds we create the world. - Buddha

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Be very careful how you spend the first and last two hours of each day

My closest mentor—one of the most successful leaders in the financial industry—gave me this tidbit early in my career: “Most people wake up reactively, adhering to the world’s needs, not their own.” In a world of unlimited communication, people don’t disconnect from society to analyze their lives.

The first two hours of your day should be spent aligning your short-term efforts with your long-term goals. I wake up during the week at 8:30-9:30 a.m., taking the time to meditate and read for 20 minutes. Then I spend an hour doing a light workout.

The last two hours of your day dictates your energy for the next day. I spend an hour studying or learning a new skill, and the last hour planning my next day.

Learn to work harder on yourself than your job.

<aside> 🔥 Build an anti-fragile identity. Re-orienting what your ego is based around. What you build your self esteem around matters. Most people build it around being right, good, worthy. These are dead ends. You will inevitably run into things you are not right or good about. If you build around being praised around end results and not the process, you will hit a dead end.

Let people "cancel" you. What's dead may never die.

Re-orient around being a learner, about being relentlessly unshakeable, then you are anti-fragile.

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Learners seek the faculty to overcome and move forward.

Have to want something super amazingly badly. Willing to sacrifice ego comfort, and NEED to find truth in pursuit of the goal.

Have to turn “wants” into crushing NEEDS.

You don’t get what you want, you get what you need. -Tony Robbins

Action-Orientation

• Every action is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
• Being successful is rarely about your ability to plan – it’s about your ability to act.
  • Be careful about over-planning
• **Curiosity, courage, and persistence are the new gatekeepers.**
• Each day is a new battle to say yes to what matters and say no to what doesn’t. Focus is a practice. -James Clear

The "Do" Manifesto

Inspired by "Manifesto of a DOer", heavily modified & extended from various inputs and reflections

1. The way to attract good luck is to be reliable in a valuable area. The more you repeatedly deliver value, the more people seek you out for that value. Your reputation is a magnet. Once you become known for something, relevant opportunities come to you with no extra work.
2. "At the higher levels of competitive swimming, something like an inversion of attitude takes place. The very features of the sport that the 'C' swimmer finds unpleasant, the top level swimmer enjoys. What others see as boring—swimming back and forth over a black line for two hours, say—they find peaceful, even meditative, often challenging, or therapeutic. They enjoy hard practices, look forward to difficult competitions, try to set difficult goals. Coming into the 5:30 A.M. practices at Mission Viejo, many of the swimmers were lively, laughing, talking, enjoying themselves, perhaps appreciating the fact that most people would positively hate doing it. It is incorrect to believe that top athletes suffer great sacrifices to achieve their goals. Often, they don’t see what they do as sacrificial at all. They like it.”
3. What are the minority of my actions that drive the majority of my results?
4. Deadlines serve you best when they are short, hard and (at first glance) impossible. Urgency gets things done.
   • Set Goals that scare you, that you don't know if you can reach using your existing skills and resources. That high bar pressures you to look for new sources of leverage.
5. Create a habit of always following through. On the big things. On the small things.
6. Focus on the goal. If something isn’t pushing the goal forward, it's a distraction. Distractions are the enemy.
7. Obstacles will come your way, think of them as gifts. They will make you stronger. They will make you more capable. They will define you.
8. Always ask: "What matters most right now?" That's THE question.
   • "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing."
9. Sprint. Rest. Sprint. Rest. We get more done in bursts followed by rest.
10. Keep your energy for pushing forward. The past is done. Things out of your control cannot be changed. Energy spent being angry, jealous, or cynical is wasted energy. Don't waste energy, use it.
11. Say no. And say it often. Protect the zone.
12. Make a pact with failure early on. Don’t fear it.
13. The energy available to get things done is directly proportional to how much it matters to you. Only commit to things that matter.
14. Find your multipliers: people, teams, tools that can accelerate the change you want to make.
15. The few influence the many. Find influencers. Be an influencer.
16. Every minute that you take away from a core activity, or spend distracted by something else, it takes about twenty-three minutes to get back into that flow state of productivity. Those distracted moments represent an enormous opportunity cost.