Core Concepts

  • Defining your Direction
    • Living North Star
      • Your purpose
      • Your Values
      • Your Vision
      • Clarity
        • Pictures
        • Words
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      • Choices
        • Pruning priorities
          • Prune Priorities; Select for Purpose
          • Use North Star tools as clarity to ruthlessly prune commitments
            • No-No-No – Yes card game
            • Keep – Discard – Visibly making the choices, and embrace the emotions in you and others when they become real, visceral.
            • AIRPLANE MODE: Dealing with reality: your stuff in first 4 hours of day with phone in Airplane Mode, all else is “later.” (Eg errands, appointments, meetings driven by other people vs. you – they get your late-in-day, use your best brain on you, and get your stuff done before asshats sabotage you).
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        • Re-framing finances
          • Time worth more than money
          • Treating this year as urgent
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  • Foundation for Change –
    • Your daily arc –
      • Experimentos – Try everything
      • Day Redesign
      • Patterns, vs variety
      • Drive in the groove through daily practice (my checklist became automatic)
    • Environment
      • 5-Noun-Ninja
      • Environment is all 7 senses
        • Blog: Totems
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      • Mindset –
        • Kind Reframe
        • Self-Permission
        • Spirituality and Purpose are the Same
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      • Health –
        • Mind
          • Brain health (light therapy etc)
          • Emotions are as physical and chemical as any other thing on earth
        • Body
          • Nutrition (Glucose is suicide)
          • Exercise –
        • Sustainability
          • Recovery – The performance differentiator
          • Eustress – Do hard things; garbage in, garbage out
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  • Structuring Change – Ensure progress by making it easy to fall into action vs. have to reinvent your plans and resolve each day
    • Project Management
      • Goals & mile markers
      • Progress tracking & metrics
    • Productivity & Optimization
      • Time management methods
      • Sustainable, consistent progress requires REGULAR INTRINSIC REWARDS.
      • Data is the reward of productivity