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February 17 - February 26, 2023
Communism fails, according to the Durants, because inequality between humans is a fundamental aspect of nature and society.
Who will your Future Self be? What life will you live? What will you commit yourself to?
The goal or end is the cause of the behavior.
Do you randomly hammer wood together and hope a house appears, or is there intelligent design?
Creation is the intelligent organization of raw materials into a specific form.
Behavior becomes more intelligent as it is intentionally designed for ends.
Your trajectory matters far more than your current position.
Costing your Future Self means you’re consuming far more than you’re creating.
To see the situation differently, imagine your cell phone as a chip that is making your Future Self fatter.
“The unconscious will only allow us to have what we believe we deserve.”
Habits are your current self; deliberate practice is focused striving toward your desired Future Self.
If you want to become your desired Future Self, play at their level as quickly as possible.
“We are kept from our goals not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.”
any perspective that limits your Future Self should be questioned,
“As man now is, God once was; as God now is, man may be.”
Your Future Self is inevitable, yet the outcome is optional.
“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,”
Define for yourself a contextual purpose that you believe to be the absolute most important thing you could do right now.
Step #1: Clarifying your contextual purpose involves three key items:
Connect with your long-term Future Self Clarify your contextual purpose through your three major priorities
Set massive 12-month targets based on your t...
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To determine which seeds to plant, first determine which fruit or outcomes you want for your Future Self.
clarify your Future Self is defining your purpose with three clear priorities.
What is your current purpose?
What three priorities of focus are absolutely most crucial and essential for you right now? Do your three priorities embody the purpose you feel is most important for you to fulfill? Do these three priorities resonate deeply and excite you?
Once you’ve clarified your three core priorities, set specific goals for each of those priorities over the next 12 months.
Which of your 12-month goals, if achieved, would make the biggest long-term impact for your Future Self?
The goal determines the process.
Your results follow what you’re most committed to in a single instant.
can know what you’re committed to by your results, not by what you say your commitments are.
Am I committed enough to uncommit to what I currently have?
To have motivation, you have a compelling outcome or reward, a path for attaining that outcome, and the confidence to execute that path.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
“True desire, in the heart, for anything good is God’s proof to you sent beforehand to indicate that it’s yours already.”
Gratitude is powerful when expressed for what has already occurred. It’s also extremely powerful when you express proactive gratitude for what you want in the future. Gratitude elevates from wanting to knowing.
“Faith knows it has already received and acts accordingly.” Faith is knowing. That knowing automatically leads to an elevated and aligned doing.
The Powers of Two,
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.”
Effectiveness is doing the right things, while efficiency is doing things right.
The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less, psychologist
It’s crucial to note that even the best system will quickly become outdated.
Step #6 of being your Future Self is scheduling your time around your Future Self.
“Newtonian physics is the belief in cause and effect while Einstein physics is the belief of causing the effect.
Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.
The only purpose of starting is to finish,
Done is better than perfect.
aggressive completion.
Imperfect completion. Consistent completion.
Parkinson’s Law:
The 80 Percent Rule:
