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Busy!
I donât know if youâve felt it but I have.
Feels like somethingâs in the air at the moment. Stuff is just suddenly happening everywhere, all the timeâŚ
If youâre feeling a bit like me this week, take a few minutes and enjoy this issue wherever or whatever your busyness is making you do!
Today youâll get: 3 bullet tips, a borrowed idea, a read you need⌠and a question for you!
Enjoy!
Break on through to the other side @AaronAalto
Bullet tips
âSimplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting pointâ - Frederick Maitland
All things start out with innocent simplicityâŚ
Donât underestimate the work it takes to create the âsimple lifeâ.
People who look to have simple lives, people with little worries, people making money in their sleep⌠have likely worked very hard over a period of time to achieve that.
Aim and build towards simplicity!
âThe path to performing is full of discipline not brillianceâ - Shane Parrish
For me, to be disciplined is simply to be consistent.
Brilliance wonât deliver motivation, work ethic, or street smarts!
Discipline can deliver all of those and more.
The real brilliance is the level of discipline!
âBy not starting the dream remains flawless. Tear apart your perfect idea, make it vulnerable to failureâ
Rip it to shreds!
Chuck your idea out into the world. Itâs both torture and self pleasure to never act on an idea.
Itâs torture as youâre living in unfulfilled potential.
Itâs self pleasure, as your idea has no flaws and is yet to have holes poked in it.
Show up or hide? Up to youâŚ
A borrowed idea
Seth Godin on Habits of Mind.
Read you need
How To Make Your To-Do List Less Overwhelming (Josh Spector)
To-Do Lists have a fatal flaw âthey never end.
No matter how much you get done in a day, thereâs always new stuff to do.
As productivity expert David Allen famously said, âYou can do anything, but not everything.â
The infinite nature of your To-Do list makes it as likely to remind you of what you failed to do as it is what you did.
No wonder you feel overwhelmed when you look at it.
An âEnough Listâ can help continue readingâŚ
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Ask yourself thisâŚ
What would my ideal day look like, in detail, 10 years from today?
A good follow-up: what stands between me and living that ideal day?
Same time next week,
đ¨â𦰠Keith