What’s the key to success?
- Positioning is the silent force behind success.
- 98% of success is consistently doing boring things that no one sees. 2% is visible and exciting, so that’s all everyone talks about. Anyone can do it once. The best does it consistently.
Anyone can order a healthy meal once. Anyone can get up early to work out once. Anyone can save more than they earn for a month. Anyone can take their partner on a date once. Anyone can write a page. Anyone can focus on one thing for an hour.
Most people can’t do it consistently because they want instant gratification. They want to see the results … right now. Just because the results aren’t immediately visible, doesn’t mean they are not accumulating. Ordinary moments compound over weeks and months into extraordinary results.
5 Things Successful People Do
- Take care of your health. The important point is that you do something to improve your health every day.
- Plan your day the night before.
- Find your “Sacred Hour”. During that time you can do anything you want as long as it benefits you.
- Read and learn
- Track your goals. There’s a saying, “What gets measured gets improved.”
What’s the formula for failure?
Results accumulate long before they are visible
“The formula for failure is a few small errors consistently repeated.
Just because the results aren’t immediately felt doesn’t mean consequences aren’t coming.
You are smart enough to know the potential results; you just don’t necessarily realize when they’re coming.”
What’s the formula for getting started?
If you’re having trouble getting started, shorten the distance between where you are and where you focus.
Climbing Everest might be the ultimate goal, but people often talk themselves out of starting because the distance from where they are to where they want to go seems impossibly big.
Keep the goal but change the focus to the next step.
You can’t reach the top if you don’t start.
Inaction and choice
If you choose, not to decide. You still have made a choice.
What makes life easier?
Life gets easier when you don’t blame other people and focus on what you can control.
- James Clear.
What can one do overnight?
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
— Jim Rohn
How to respond to Tragedy?
You should never, when faced with one unbelievable tragedy, let one tragedy increase into two or three because of a failure of will.”
— Charlie Munger
What is entropy in life?
Entropy means gradual decline to disorder.
Entropy applies to every part of our lives. It is inescapable, and even if we try to ignore it, the result is a collapse of some sort. Understanding entropy leads to a radical change in the way we see the world. Ignorance of it is responsible for many of our biggest mistakes and failures. We cannot expect anything to stay the way we leave it. To maintain our health, relationships, careers, skills, knowledge, societies, and possessions requires never-ending effort and vigilance. Disorder is not a mistake; it is our default. Order is always artificial and temporary.
