March 5th, 2020
Today was one of those days where I felt so productive that I felt like I was high on drugs.
Sometimes, for me, the feeling of being productive is like a rush. It can be very exciting and enlightening at the same time.
Maybe it felt like this because of how unproductive I've been in the past week...
And as I was leaving the library after what felt like a great day's work, I kept thinking "man if I could be this productive and working on the right things every day I could get so much more done". Because I'm starting to realize it's even less about being productive, but working on the right things.
For me at least, when I first started to feel like I was becoming a more productive human, it was all about the systems - mental, organizational, etc - which is a great place to start - but I think as I develop as an entrepreneur I'm starting to see the most important thing is picking the most important thing and just working on it until it's done. It's that simple. It's so deceptively simple that nobody can even see it - I think 99% of people won't even realize it in their lifetime.
Instead of putting 20 things on your todo list like "clean room" and "go for a run", I need to put the actually most important things FIRST. Get those done now, and then I can "do my laundry". And knock those out by 9:30AM - the items that have been sitting on your todo list forever, but you keep putting them off because they are not fun, or they are scary and give you fear. Or maybe they are not even on my todo list because I'm so scared of them.
But if I can work on these things every day, I know I can get so much further.
It's less about prioritization, and more about conquering my fears. For me, that could be something like launching a podcast, or asking that girl out that I think is cute, or public speaking. These are just examples, but they are things that I am (or have been) deeply scared of.
And that's why I keep putting them off.
If I can identify those, get them done, then I can be superhuman.
Writing this stuff really helps...
I heard this Peter Thiel quote the other day:
Sometimes, for me, the feeling of being productive is like a rush. It can be very exciting and enlightening at the same time.
Maybe it felt like this because of how unproductive I've been in the past week...
And as I was leaving the library after what felt like a great day's work, I kept thinking "man if I could be this productive and working on the right things every day I could get so much more done". Because I'm starting to realize it's even less about being productive, but working on the right things.
For me at least, when I first started to feel like I was becoming a more productive human, it was all about the systems - mental, organizational, etc - which is a great place to start - but I think as I develop as an entrepreneur I'm starting to see the most important thing is picking the most important thing and just working on it until it's done. It's that simple. It's so deceptively simple that nobody can even see it - I think 99% of people won't even realize it in their lifetime.
Instead of putting 20 things on your todo list like "clean room" and "go for a run", I need to put the actually most important things FIRST. Get those done now, and then I can "do my laundry". And knock those out by 9:30AM - the items that have been sitting on your todo list forever, but you keep putting them off because they are not fun, or they are scary and give you fear. Or maybe they are not even on my todo list because I'm so scared of them.
But if I can work on these things every day, I know I can get so much further.
It's less about prioritization, and more about conquering my fears. For me, that could be something like launching a podcast, or asking that girl out that I think is cute, or public speaking. These are just examples, but they are things that I am (or have been) deeply scared of.
And that's why I keep putting them off.
If I can identify those, get them done, then I can be superhuman.
Writing this stuff really helps...
I heard this Peter Thiel quote the other day:
How can you achieve your 10 year plan in the next 6 months?
I can't stop thinking about it. What if I could actually get my 10 year goals completed in 6 months? Then I could get 20 10 year goals completed in 10 years! It's really a great question I'd like to ask myself more often.