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Last night I was going through some YouTube videos and I stumbled across a video with Lex Fridman and Elon Musk. It was a piece on advice to young people and essentially it was to be useful. This is very simple advice but it is very difficult to do.

I started to reflect on my own activities, my own work, my own projects. What impact am I actually making? What value are people actually getting? Am I creating more than I am consuming? How can you become net positive?

These were some tough questions to answer but it gave me the insight into the actions I am making and where I can pivot in the future as well as where I should focus my energy on.

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Today I'd like to bring up the concept of scorecards. If you've worked in a large company, you've most likely been given KPI's and you have these targets that you need to reach.

Now the question is how about your personal scorecard? What is your scorecard in life? What do you measure on a weekly basis?

Now if it's related to the amount of material that you have i.e. how many houses, how many cars that you have, if you've defined your success by that kind of scorecard. Everything becomes really difficult.

There are other ways to look at it. Personally, I track what is my weekly resting heart rate, my heart rate, variability, what is my average sleeping hours, workout activity each week. How many creative hours I spend, how many hours I spend at work, how many hours I spend with my family and partner.

These are my weekly scorecard metrics because health to me is my scorecard. Creative hours to me is my scorecard, time with work and family is my scorecard. And because I'm not focusing on the material it allows me to focus on the progress. Giving me room to create, allowing me to expand my capabilities, my creativity, my connections and my credibility.

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Today I have something shared by Dharmesh Shah, he's the co-founder of HubSpot. Through one of his interviews, he shares a mental model about the interconnecting circles of skills. He begins with listing your top skills, what are you good at? What are you passionate about? And if you were to narrow a few down and combine some of those top skills. How rare is that combination? Finally, do those skills reinforce each other? For example, being an olympic swimmer and a very good programmer might be two very different fields and may not compliment each other. But if you have certain skills such as public speaking and teaching. The combination of those two reinforce each other well. So from your unique combination of skillsets what service, offering, product or value add can you develop?

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Today I'd like to share two parts from Kevin Kelly. Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don't focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout. I love this so much, I think sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike is essentially procrastination. If you can simply make progress each day. I believe that inspiration will come and I think this ties very well with:

If you repeated what you did today 365 more times, will you be where you want to be next year?

To be consistent in building a habit I don't believe is enough. Is it in the right direction? Is what you're doing every single day going to get you where you want to be?

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Today I'd like to talk about growth, " If you become satisfied, growth stops."

To continue on with this, I wanted to share some laws written by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura from the book 10 laws of lifetime growth.

Some of my favourites are:

Always make your questions bigger than your answers. All growth lies in the territory of the unknown. What we already know is in the past. What we have yet to discover is the future. Always make your questions bigger than your answers and you keep drawing yourself into a bigger future with new possibilities.

Always make your confidence greater than your comfort. Many successful people start off life as dreamers and risk-takers but the moment they become successful, they start seeking greater security and comfort as their main goal. This attitude puts them to sleep motivationally and they lose the confidence that made them so successful.

Finally always make your cooperation greater than your status. Working with others and creating opportunities for increased cooperation makes greater things possible in our lives and in the world.

I hope some of these laws have resonated with you. Thank you, everyone for listening.

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Today I have an exercise for entrepreneurs. Review over the last 12 months your top five biggest paying cheques. Now I want you to then average the amount to work out your largest paying cheque. So if you add up your top five biggest cheques then divided by five, that will give you your current maximum paying cheque. The idea is that you should be focusing your time and effort increasing this largest check every 12 months for either the same or less amount of time.

You can also do this to work out your minimum cheque and then either decide for the minimum cheque or below to let go of those clients or delegate. And if you want to have a bit of fun think of your dream cheque, give yourself a monstrous number that scares you and have a go at working backwards from that.

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Today I'd like to share a quote from Kevin Kelly, "The only productive way to answer, what should I do now? Is to first tackle the question of who should I become?"

When you are stuck and not sure what to do next or what to do now at this point in time. Have a go and ask yourself who should I become first? What values do you want to embody? What kind of person do you want to become? Who do you want to be a hero to? You can use this in combination with some of the previous exercises of moving into the future. Having a play visualising who you could be three months from now? One year from now? Three years from now? 10 years from now?

Have fun and enjoy the process. Thank you all for listening.

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I've just come back from Bali and had some time to reflect. One of the exercises I went through is called the moving future, this is also by Dan Sullivan. You look at your current situation and note down where you currently are? What mindset you're in? And then you go back three months. Three months ago what were you doing? Where were you? Who were you with? What was your mindset like? And from then till today, What were your gains? What were the positive things that have happened that have you accomplish or the progress you've made? I had noticed and it had surprised me the amount of work, amount of effort, the amount of things that have changed. The beliefs that I had three months ago no longer exists today. From here you can choose to look three months into the future. What would you like to achieve in the next three months? Where would you like to be? What things would you like to change? Give yourself some time and space to do this every three months, so you can look back into the past and into the future. Appreciate your wins, the progress you've made and be happy where you are right now.

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Today I'd like to talk about mental subtraction. Often we are recommended to have a gratitude practice to help us shift our mindsets to a more positive state by thinking of the things that we're grateful and thankful for. But even with a gratitude practice sometimes people can still take things for granted and that's where mental subtraction comes in.

Mental subtraction is a visual exercise that takes away someone or something important in your life to help you appreciate more, those relationships or anything else that is in your life. This process can help you improve your positivity and appreciation.

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Today I have a quote by Dan Sullivan, "Procrastination is wisdom." How can procrastination become wisdom? Naturally when we think about procrastination it is unproductive and not a desirable state of mind. We put off things that we think we should do or need to do and then eventually if it has to be done we get around to it. Finishing the task while feeling low and once we've completed it we think, why didn't we do it earlier?

Instead we can use procrastination as a sign that maybe what needs to be done is not for you. We should ask, who can help us achieve this task? Who can help you? Thus accelerating results. Remember this is with any part of your life? Whether it's health and you want to get fit, you want to eat better? You don't always have to figure out how, you should ask who? Or find somebody who can find you who. As Dan Sullivan says. Every who needs a who including you.

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