But not too much.
Only when you are actually hungry. Like when you feel it in your rumbly tummy.
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Work To Precision
Don’t Generalise. Get precise and expect others to do the same. Get specific on dates and times and lengths, processes and outcomes.
If you work with general, you’re likely to get average results at best. The more precision you have, the more success you will have too.
You want precision in warfare, surgery, finances and legal matters, to name just a few.
Would you accept a paycheck “sometime during the month for a few thousand”? Or would you want to know which specific date in the month that your agreed $4,897,89 was going to arrive in your account?
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Meet People Going Your Way
Seek out people that are going where you want to be. Learn from these people. Work with these people. Travel together.
If you were heading to the centre of London, getting in a car going there would be way better than getting in a car headed to Liverpool.
So whatever you are doing in life, get around as many people as you can that are going to the same destination in life.
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Anticipate
Expect the unexpected I’ve been told. And it’s good advice. Anticipate a bumpy road. Hope for a straight path but be prepared mentally for things to shift off course. It requires thinking ahead and testing the limits of possibility.
Once you’re prepared for speed bumps, you can set your thoughts on clear skies and a flat road, and hopefully that’s what you’ll find.
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Attack The Day
Get up and get moving. Don’t think. Do.
Don’t gently roll around the house from room to room like you have eternity. Move with purpose. Get a task done quickly. Then do another. Get some momentum going. If you do three quick things, enjoy the feeling of achievement.
Then do something that takes a bit longer. Stay focused. Don’t get distracted. Finish the job. Celebrate ????.
Then go for another thing. Build your habit of seeking critical things to do and then do them.
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Celebrate Your Wins
Got to the gym today? Celebrate ????
Kept to your diet? Celebrate ????
Completed the third big step in your project? Celebrate ????
What does Celebrate mean though? Well it can mean many things. It could mean you get 20 minutes outside walking in the sun. You could meet a friend for a coffee for 30 minutes. You could buy yourself a ticket to the latest film you’ve been wanting to see. Another option would be to have a relaxing bath this evening before bed.
The celebration will be dependent on you and what you value. Try to keep most celebrations to a low or no cost budget. That way you can have far more win celebrations which will help drive your motivation and delivery of outcomes.
As you plan ever greater milestones and goals, you can up the stakes for the final celebrations. Do keep them within your budget though.
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Review Your Progress
At least once each week, you need to review your progress. You need to understand if you are getting the results you were after and if you are putting in the effort you said you would, should or needed to.
This is your brutal facts of reality moment.
No excuses. No reasons. Black and white. Yes or no. If you were supposed to go to the gym 3x in the last 5 days, did you? Yes or no? If yes, well done! If no, what will you do differently this week (Monday am to Sunday pm)? Perhaps go to the gym even earlier so other things don’t get in the way.
If you were supposed to read 10 pages of a book every night in the last 5 days, did you? Yes or no? If yes, congratulations! If no, what do you need to do differently on each of the next 7 days to ensure it happens consistently? Read when you wake up? Go to bed 30 minutes earlier and read then?
Whatever your goals are, Review your progress every week, ideally on the same day at the same time. Sunday evening is a good time for this. Make it part of your seven day success cycle as outlined in my book.
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Become Accountable To Someone
If you want to succeed or excel, pay someone to keep you accountable.
This is the magic of Weight Watchers, a job with a boss, a coach or even a parent (Though the pay is negligible).
Get someone who will actually push you and ignore your excuses and all attempts to stay stuck where you are.
You can try to do it on your own, but very few have that level of discipline.
Splurge. Set a budget for someone 5 minutes a day to get on your case. They can track your progress too. They can also help you see your own excuses for why you are not being disciplined. (Hint: you don’t want it bad enough to put the effort required in)
Do you want success or just someone to listen to why you can’t be bothered to fight hard for your own goals?
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Clear It Up Or Out
Every day in January, spend 1 hour clearing out a drawer, the left side of a cupboard or a shelf.
Donate, toss or use it. Clear out your life. Why do you have all this stuff? If it doesn’t bring you tremendous joy, make room for something that does – and that could just be uncluttered space.
If 1 hour every day doesn’t work for you, try to do it all across two separate, 8 hour days. Or, two hours, every other day. Make a firm and specific plan that works for you and then stick to it.
The decluttered space will be a joy to be in every day for the 11 remaining months of the year.
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Enjoy The Process
There is a ‘best-results’ formula or process for everything. You may know one process of the many that exist, but it might not deliver the best results.
Find people who have got better results than you have, learn their process and use it.
Keep finding people with better processes and improving your own. Inevitably you will be getting better results each time.
Try to enjoy this process of continual improvement as it can last a lifetime.
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