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This change makes Crazy Progress Inevitable...
The Focus Filter...
The average person
makes 35,000 continuous and unconscious decisions
every single day…
Why is this important?
Let’s find out together…
For example,
split them in half…
Let's say half of those daily decisions are unconscious
and the other half are conscious…
That’s 17,500 Conscious decisions, you make every day
Now take just 500 of those per day
that you actually think about.
You ask yourself why you are going to do one thing instead of another.
In those moments of thought
for just 500 of the 35,000 decisions you make.
What if you ask yourself
Is this getting me closer to my goal?
This could be absolutely anything
Hit 10k per month,
Gain 100k followers on Instagram
Or
Gain 20 pounds of lean muscle mass.
Whatever it may be,
If you filter that fraction of decisions you make daily
Through your goal
Just stop and think how much closer you could be.
Let's take the Gaining muscle example,
If you want to gain muscle
You are going to come across decisions you have to make that want to set you back or even deter you from your goal.
Like having a cheat day,
Going out with friends and getting messed up
Or
Staying up all night gaming deprives you of your needed sleep for recovery.
But here’s the thing
The goal doesn’t care,
And if you keep making those decisions
You’re going to get further and further away from that goal.
So
This is what I want you to do
Get a piece of paper
And write
“Is this getting me closer to (Insert Your Goal)?”
Then put that paper on your wall,
your bed head
or even on your ceiling so that when you wake up that’s the first thing you see.
Put it where you have no choice but to look at it every day
Make that sentence the home page of your phone and computer
Do whatever it takes for you to consistently read that question.
Once you do
you’ll start to have that question as a filter in your brain.
You’ll start to automatically
Turn down that cheat meal,
not go out with your friends and poison yourself
And when you get ready for the next gaming session
You might rethink it.
This perspective change is absolutely amazing
Once you’re pointed and focused
on one direction
one goal
one dream.
That’s when you’ll start to see compounding progress
But don’t take it from me
Take it from the richest man in the world
Elon Musk
When someone comes up with another idea for him
he asks
“Is this getting us closer to Mars”
If not, he says no
And doesn’t do it.
If it has the potential to get him closer to Mars
He does it.
It’s that simple
So
If there’s one takeaway from this
It’s that being ultra clear on the one Goal you want to achieve
And
Make that the filter for all your actions.
Take the right actions every single day to get there as fast as humanly possible.
Now go out
Get after it
And go achieve greatness.
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