Busy!
I donāt know if youāve felt it but I have.
Feels like somethingās in the air at the moment. Stuff is just suddenly happening everywhere, all the timeā¦
If youāre 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 youāll get: 3 bullet tips, a borrowed idea, a read you needā¦ and a question for you!
Enjoy!
Break on through to the other side @AaronAalto
Bullet tips
āSimplicity is the end result of long, hard work, not the starting pointā - Frederick Maitland
All things start out with innocent simplicityā¦
Donāt underestimate the work it takes to create the āsimple lifeā.
People who look to have simple lives, people with little worries, people making money in their sleepā¦ have likely worked very hard over a period of time to achieve that.
Aim and build towards simplicity!
āThe path to performing is full of discipline not brillianceā - Shane Parrish
For me, to be disciplined is simply to be consistent.
Brilliance wonāt deliver motivation, work ethic, or street smarts!
Discipline can deliver all of those and more.
The real brilliance is the level of discipline!
āBy not starting the dream remains flawless. Tear apart your perfect idea, make it vulnerable to failureā
Rip it to shreds!
Chuck your idea out into the world. Itās both torture and self pleasure to never act on an idea.
Itās torture as youāre living in unfulfilled potential.
Itās self pleasure, as your idea has no flaws and is yet to have holes poked in it.
Show up or hide? Up to youā¦
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 āthey never end.
No matter how much you get done in a day, thereās always new stuff to do.
As productivity expert David Allen famously said, āYou can do anything, but not everything.ā
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 āEnough Listā can help continue readingā¦
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Ask yourself thisā¦
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,
šØāš¦° Keith