Design Test Improve

In this episode, we talk about the benefits of living more in the present and our advice on how to help you get there.

Tools & Resources Mentioned

• Notion
• Wim Hoff Breathing Exercises
• Freedom App (App Blocker)
• Day One – Journal App
• Bullet Journal

Reading Material Mentioned

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Naval's Tweet Thread

In today's episode, we discuss how slowing down can actually help you progress faster in accomplishing your goals and living a more intentional life. We share our own personal systems and some mindsets shifts we’ve used to help us achieve our goals faster while doing less.

Tools Mentioned

• Bullet Journal
• Notion
• Fantastical
• Day One Journal
• ReMarkable Tablet
• Google Calendar

Call-To-Action

• If you don’t already have a list of things you want to complete this week, create one (recommend listening to episode 6: Structuring Weeks For Progress On Goals)
• Each day review what you want to accomplish that day and ask yourself if this is something that will help me make significant progress towards my goals (apply 80/20 Principle)
• At the end of the day reflect on how the day went and how you can improve it the next day.

In today's episode, we will be discussing leveraging rewards and losses to help you stay accountable to achieve your goals in 2022.

Call To Action

When creating your goals, also write down a reward or loss for not completing it.

Then hit up a friend and say...

• Reward – Hey, if I complete ___, we should go out to ___.
• Loss – Hey, if I don’t complete ___ by Saturday, I owe you ___.

or sign up for a service like BeeMinder or Focus Mate to have some accountability to increase your chances to get you to do what you set to do.

Tools Mentioned In The Episode

• BeeMinder
• Focus Mate
• Ep. 25: How To Actually Accomplish Your Goals in 2022
• Strava
• Heed Sports Drink

In today’s episode, we discuss our thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions, our systems for tackling our goals in 2022, and how to mitigate obstacles that might come up along the way.

Content/Tools mentioned:

• Psychology of Money
• Maybe It’s You
• Things 3
• Notion
• Bullet Journal
• Podcast episode on structuring your week
  • 6: Structuring Weeks For Progress On Goals

Call to Action:

1. Reflect on the different areas of your life
2. Ask: Where would I like to see myself a year from now in those areas?
3. List projects/goals that will help you step closer to reaching your vision
4. Assign those projects to a quarter preferably
5. List out tasks for each of the projects/goals (you don’t have to know all of them, just list the ones that come to mind in order to start)
6. Each week plan out what tasks you will complete or progress towards from your projects for the quarter
7. At the end of the week reflect on how the week went and how you can improve on the next week.
8. Repeat each week.
9. At the end of the month reflect on the month. At the end of the quarter reflect on the quarter. At the end of the year reflect on the year.

While most of us are in constant search of mentors to help improve our lives, in today's episode we discuss why you shouldn’t just focus on finding mentors, but also in being a 
mentor and the benefits that come from helping others.

Call-To-Action
Next time you have the opportunity to be a mentor to someone give it a try. Doesn’t have to be formal.

In this episode we discuss the importance of creating your own personal knowledge management system to store information you learn throughout your life, how to make sense of it in your own words, and how to organize it in a manner to better leverage it in your life.

Personal Knowledge Management System: A PKM system is a system in which you gather information you deemed valuable, make sense of it in your own words, store it, and retrieve when needed for your daily activities.

Call-To-Action

1. Identify a location where you will capture content or ideas
2. Identify a location where you would like to store information you deemed valuable enough to add to your personal knowledge management database
3. When you write down notes about something you learned, try to explain what you are learning in your own words

Tools:

• Things 3
• Obsidian
• Evernote
• Notion
• Roam Research
• Apple Notes
• Microsoft OneNote
• RemNote
• HyperNotes
• Notebook

Video:

• How to build a knowledge management system (PKMS) and why it will help you be smarter

Article:

• The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information

Today's episode is on understanding imposter syndrome. What it is, how it could hold you back in your career, and ways to overcome it.

Imposter Syndrome Definition: Impostor syndrome is a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud". Despite external evidence of their competence, those experiencing this phenomenon remain convinced that they are frauds and do not deserve all they have achieved. Individuals with imposter syndrome incorrectly attribute their success to luck, or interpret it as a result of deceiving others into thinking they are more intelligent than they perceive themselves to be.

Call-To-Action

• Reflect on your life and think if you are feeling like an imposter in something 
  • Think of facts that show you are not an imposter 
    • Ex: Graduated from university, hired for this position, performance feedback, people not calling you out
  • Think of other times you may have felt like an imposter but turns out you weren't. Reflect on that experience and how those feelings you were having at the time are similar to what you are experiencing now.
• Talk to a trusted friend, family, or therapist about your experience so it is not all just in your head. Sometimes we are the toughest on ourselves.

Today's episode is on how reducing the number of decisions you make in a day may help you live a simpler and happier life.

How To Implement What We Discuss

• Think of ways you can start creating frameworks for your life to reduce the number of decisions each day.
  • Exercising, Routines, Start/End times for work, Rules for selecting food at restaurants, etc.
  • Anything that is a repeatable and low level decision should be systematized.

Tools Mentioned

• Things 3

Research Articles

• How to Make Every Minute of the Day Count by Dramatically Reducing Decisions
• 9 Ways to Combat Decision Fatigue
• 7 ways I’m minimizing decision fatigue in my daily life

Today's episode is on the negative consequences of only thinking big, and why instead you should start incorporating the habit of thinking small alongside thinking big to help you achieve your ambitious goals.

Articles

• The Deceptive Power of Starting Small
• Why Starting Small is Your Best Guarantee for Success

Call-To-Action

What is something you want to learn or complete (Example: Guitar, Learning To Code, Starting a blog, etc.)

1. Define it so you know when you complete it (SMART Goal)
2. List out all the small steps that come to mind and organize it in the way you would like to complete them
3. Schedule a recurring time in your week to work on this
   • Could be every day, every other day, once a week
   • Whatever works for you

There's a lot more factors to consider other than the amount of money you make in a position, when making career decisions.  Some of these factors are even more important than the dollar figure.

In today's episode we discuss some of those factors you should consider in a career position besides money to help you make an informed decision which would help lead to a happier life.

Call-To-Action

• Think of what you value at your current stage in life
  • Money
  • Time to work on your personal projects or travel
  • What you learn? How much you learn?
  • Stability?
  • etc.
• List out all the things you can think of to consider in a job position
  • See how the job position details aligns with what you are valuing in your current stage in life