How To Change Your Life This Winter (My 5-Step Process)

Most people will spend this winter binge-watching shows and scrolling through social media.

Let's do something different.

Here's a simple 5-step process that turned ordinary winters into extraordinary ones for people like:

→ Brian Armstrong (Coinbase founder), who used one winter break to build his first crypto prototype

→ Sara Blakely, who spent her winters cold-calling to sell fax machines before creating Spanx

→ Andy Jassy, who wrote the original AWS proposal during a quiet winter at Amazon

1. Pick One Thing (Just One)

? Warren Buffett calls it the "5/25 rule": Write 25 goals. Circle your top 5. Now, the plot twist? Those other 20 become your "avoid at all costs" list.

? My favorite example: In winter 2020, Whitney Wolfe Herd focused solely on taking Bumble public. Result? She became the youngest female self-made billionaire.

2. Schedule Like a Scientist

? Research shows your willpower peaks between 8-11 AM

? Front-load your most important work here

? Yes, this means no more hitting snooze 7 times (I'm looking at you, fellow night owls)

3. The 80/20 Learning Rule

→ 20% reading/learning

→ 80% doing/failing/adjusting

? Fun fact: Even Thomas Edison spent only 2 hours daily reading. The rest? Pure experimentation.

4. Choose Your Winter Circle

? You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with

? A recent Stanford study (2023) shows your peer group influences your success rate by up to 147%

? Bonus tip: Join online communities. Some of today's biggest tech founders met in Reddit threads

5. Take Calculated Risks

? Jeff Bezos used a "regret minimization framework"

? Ask yourself: "At 80, will I regret not trying this?"

? The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time? This winter.

Remember: While others are making snow angels, you could be making history.

Or at least a better version of yourself.

But let's be honest.

If you're still watching cat videos after reading this, I can't help you.

The window of opportunity is like that friend who says they'll "just crash on your couch for a few days"—it won't last forever.

P.S. What's the one skill you've been putting off learning that, if mastered this winter, could completely change your life's trajectory?

Share below – let's make each other accountable.

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