Your guide to a healthier perspective of life
When something good happens in your life, are you quick to praise others or do you take credit for it?
Likewise, when things are not going your way, are you putting the blame on yourself or outside circumstances?
You need to take an honest look in the mirror. Yes, some of your actions may have played a role in the end result, but that doesn’t mean you did it by yourself. It’s not just your accomplishment or just your “failure.”
“Your customers don’t care what it took for you to make something. They care about what it does for them.” – Seth Godin
You have to provide value to your customers, and the first step to doing that is asking good questions. What do they want? What issue(s) are they trying to eliminate? It’s not about what you want; think about it from their perspective. Try to understand what they’re really saying. Can you help them get what they want? If not, can you refer them to someone who can help? Be of service to them and they will want to work with you again and again.
Before you can become your best self in every area of life, first you need to optimize and systematize your day. Things you should do everyday:
1. Get enough high quality sleep (what “enough” is varies from person-to-person…find out what enough is for you)
2. Do something physically demanding everyday. Start out small (it might only be 10-15 minutes at a time), but find a way to eventually increase this to at least 60 minutes. This should be varied movements – lifting weights, doing some form of cardio, stretching/doing yoga, etc.
3. Eat the right foods (healthy fats, different colored vegetables and fruits, meat sources that were raised in a more natural habitat, etc…staying away from highly processed and packaged foods).
4. Drink enough water.
5. Learn. Never stop learning or trying to get better at your craft. Go to workshops, read books, attend meetups, get a mentor, listen to podcasts, etc. Invest in yourself.
6. Review your goals. If you haven’t figured out what your goals are for the year, do that today. Then take the desired end result and reverse engineer what actions you need to take to achieve those goals. What measurables do you need to hit on a quarterly, monthly, weekly, and daily basis to get the results you want? What are your conversion rates? How can you improve them most efficiently? Write these down and review where you’re at everyday.
What are your true priorities, not just what you tell yourself/others? What do you spend the most time doing? What do you spend your money on? If you look at those answers, it will tell you what is truly important to you.
If you say family time is important, but spend all of your time with them on the phone, what are you telling your family with your actions? If you say that you want to retire early, but spend everything you earn, is it really early retirement that you want? If you say your physical health is important, but decide to eat junk food and not workout, what is the real truth? If you say that intelligence is important to you, but you haven’t picked up a book since you graduated from high school/college, do you really care about improving your mental capacity?
You are what you do. Think about what you want your priorities to be and then take actions that reflect those priorities.
Do you have a victim mindset or a victor mindset? Will you let your surroundings defeat you or will you overcome them? You get to choose. Choose to be the victor.