1. Great New Year strategy…
Jesse Itzler is an entrepreneur, author, speaker, and more. He created a simple formula to make your year (and life) better. The idea is this… (1.) Every quarter, choose a new habit to work on… (2.) Plan six mini-adventures (one every other month)…. (3.) Commit to a “misogi”… a massively challenging, year-defining, life-altering event or goal. The new habit allows you three months to initiate, develop, and instill a new, life-improving habit. The mini-adventures can be trips, concerts, seminars, or anything that is different than you would have otherwise done on a week or weekend that creates an experience that you’ll remember, gets you away from your daily routine, and/or brings you closer to family, friends, spouse, etc. The misogi is something that REALLY tests you, pushes you outside of your comfort zone, reminds you that you’re alive, and expands your mind’s limits of what you thought was possible. (My misogi last year was climbing Mt. Ranier😰.) Want a year that is extraordinary? You MUST plan it, write it down, get it on the calendar, and start NOW! (Or it just won’t happen.) Happy New Year! I hope your 2025 is PHENOMENAL!!! And you can click here to see the YouTube video that I posted last year for the calendar system we used to make this happen.
2. Concept I heard, and am pondering, this week…
I heard a concept this week called the efficiency trap. According to author Oliver Burkeman… “Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder — won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because all else being equal, the demands will increase to offset the benefits. Far from getting more things done, you’ll be creating new things to do.” Basically, the more efficient you get at doing things, that opens up more time for you to get more done, which leads to becoming busier… not less busy. Something to ponder, as I have seen myself purposely get more efficient at things, yet my life seems to get busier… not less busy. Hmmmmm…
3. Interesting graphic I saw this week…
Recently, I have been seeing a graphic showing “how people spend their time.” It is a time-lapsed graph starting in 1930 and running up to 2024. It is crazy to watch how family, friends, and school was such a huge percentage back in the ‘30s and ‘40s, and online was obviously zero… and how online is now such a HUGE factor. As I dug a little deeper, I found that the graph was being misused, as it wasn’t actually “how people spend their time.” I found the original version, with the original source, and it is “How couples met.” I still thought it was very interesting, and feel it is VERY reflective of how times have changed… and probably very closely tied to how people have spent their time. Check it out below…