# Essentialism - *** ## title: Essentialism -  - [[Books/Essentialism]] - - Find the Purpose - Question - Answer - Plan for NOW - Priority - Bring it into your daily life - Time block - - - If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one - Extra ordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus - find the lead domino , success is built sequentially - **The Lies** - Everything is equal - 80:20 principle - Multitasking - multitasking takes a toll. You can’t multitask - A disciplined life - You can be successful with less discipline that you think. You become successful by doing the right thing , not by doing everything right - Willpower is always on will-call - It is a scare resource. - A Balanced Life - Counterbalance. - Extraordinary results are at the extreme - Big is bad - Big results require big actions which require big thought - Avoid incremental thinking (at best it is a slow lane to success). If your goal is X, ask how can I reach 30X. Set a goal so far above that you want that you will be building a plan that practically guarantees your original plan - Be CRAZY. “People who are crazy enough to change the world are the ones who do" - ACT BOLD. Once you have asked the big question, pause and imagine it. If you can’t, go study people who have already achieved it. - THE TRUTH - Quality of the answer is directly proportional to the quality of the question. - **“Whats the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecesary"** - **Start asking it everyday and setting reminders** - **PATH TO GREAT ANSWERS** - **Think big and specific** - **Possible** - **Benchmark and trend** -  - Great businesses are build one productive person at a time - **Live with Purpose** - If we lack a "big picture” view, we can easily fall into serial success seeking. Once we get what we want, our happiness sooner or later wanes because we quickly becomes accustomed to what we acquire. This leaves us bored, seeking something new to get. Worse we may not even stop or slow down to enjoy what we’ve got because we automatically get up and go for something else. - “Happiness happens on the way to fulfillment" - There are 5 factors that contribute to happiness - Postive emotion and pleasure, - Achievement - Relationships - Engagement - Meaning - “Becoming more engaged in what we do by finding ways to make our life more meaningful is the surest way to finding lasting happiness" - I believe that financially wealthy people are those who have enough money coming in without having to work to finance their purpose in life. - To be financially wealthy, you need to have a purpose in life. In other words, people without a purpose in life cannot be financially wealthy. - End should not justify the means. - **“Whats the ONE Thing I can do in my life that would mean the most to me and the world"** - **Live By Priority** -  - Visualise the entire things, if you are not able to. Study other people and make it - **Live for producitivity** - Time block your vacation - as you need it and deserve it - Extra ordinarily successful people **launch their year by taking out time to plan their time off** - In truth most successful people simply see themselves as working between their time offs - They know they can afford it - On the other hand, the least successful people don’t take the time because they think they don’t deserve it - Time block **4 hours a day** for your one thing. Be a maker in the morning and a manager in the afternoon - Block 1 hour each week to review your annual and monthly goals - **3 Commitements** - Follow the path to mastery - Move from entrepreneurial to purposeful - Live the accountability cycle - **The FOUR thieves** - Saying no - Fear of Chaos - Health Habits - Meditate for spiritual energy - Eat right, exercise and sleep right for  physical energy - Hug, kiss and laugh for emotional energy - Set goals, plan and calendar for mental energy - Time block your ONE thing for business energy - Place and people - **The journey** - Success is an inside journey. - Put yourself together, and your world falls into place. When you bring purpose to your life, know your priorities and achieve high productivity on the priority that matters most every day, your life makes sense and the extraordinary becomes possible - All success in life start within you. You know what to do, you know how to do . Your next step is simple. - You are the first domino.