The Monday Wisdom to Excel

We're all familiar with it at any stage of life.

If You Feel Unmotivated, Lazy, Or Like You're Going Nowhere In Life, Read This.

Too many people spent their life feeling routine tasks.

It happens unconsciously. They can’t put a finger on the problem. Once you get stuck in a rut it’s hard to get out. You just keep doing the same old bad things that got you here and can’t seem to break the cycle. It all can be generational as told by the elders to their young ones. Being told to follow the path laid out by ancestors.

That’s how we spent the first half of our life – lazy, unmotivated, and going nowhere. It’s possible to break the cycle.

Grow the wings of change to break this cycle.

Here are a few thoughts that are guaranteed to create a breakthrough.

Get real with this hard truth.

“I’m working hard and doing the best I can. I’m not the problem.”

The hard truth, is as many of you are doing the bare minimum and getting the bare minimum in return. Just ‘doing enough’ won’t produce results, momentum, or a life where you feel fulfilled.

It’s time to go above and beyond.

Pick an area where you want to excel and then put an unreasonable amount of effort into it. Disconnect yourself from the results.

Do the work for more than a year and don’t look back.

What will hurt, will eventually change you.

Pain is the way through. There is no technique to let it off. It’s forced change that can repoint you to a new direction in life that, perhaps, you never would have found otherwise.

See pain as an opportunity(if it's constant, see your Doc).

Divide the day into 2 productive sessions. The day is 4 hours long.

We have fantasies about all the time we start with each day.

What I’ve learned is that we only get about 4 hours a day of focused work. A human mind can take it only.

The rest of the day is spent in other states of mind. When you think about the day concerning only 4 hours of work, it’s easier to prioritize and focus on what matters.

It will decrease when you get hands on the skill.

Everything else around those 4 hours – procrastination, exercise, thinking, looking at your social media– sets you up for that one focused block of time.

It’s hard to be lazy with that perspective.

What will you do today with your 4 hours?

The people in your life can make or break your future.

Too often the temptation is to reach out to your idols and cold pitch them selfish asks that get no response. Some are habitual to no response. Change your approach.

Dissect their tactics and mention them in a story.

Write on social media about your idols to attract them into your life.

Fix the energy leaks.

Life = Energy.

There are hundreds of energy leaks all around you. Notice where your time and energy go. Document it. Look for the biggest energy leaks (typically negative people, the news, or emails) and delete them. Get them out of your life or minimize their exposure.

Energy management rather than time management will upgrade your life.

Compete against this enemy.

It’s far too easy to get into games where there are competitors. The cheat code is to stop seeing others as your competitors or enemies and start competing with yourself. The goal is to be 1% better than yesterday. That’s a game you can win.

Adopt the “fix it now” strategy.

Small problems are easy to delay when you’re unmotivated. Avoiding that challenge can turn it into giant snowballs.

James Clear taught us to fix small problems as soon as they come up. The energy required to solve a problem when it’s small isn’t much. When you defeat these problems and rack up tiny wins it creates momentum.

That momentum slowly gets you further away from laziness and demotivation, and closer toward a comeback fuelled by newfound motivation.

Do this with the internet.

I’m a 90s kid. The internet felt like a miracle at the start.

If you are in your 20s and have a stable corporate gig, I encourage you to think about the boring business of thinking about your outcomes as a math problem that starts small but scales fast once you get the hang of it.

Let's say. Do you want to get to an additional $500 a month?

What do you do?

It has to be fueled by revenue streams. Here's How:

Build value to be able to bill 11.35hrs at @ 20$/h

Sell a course to 2 students/quarter @ $114

Sell a 7$ Product to 35 customers a month/subscription

Do 4 sales a month at 56$

Do any of the above and you have $500 Revenue potential. Ignore the math and focus on the msg & u can likely do 7.5m /Y if you look at the avenues which can get you there incrementally, vs home runs.

Let go of closed-door opportunities. Keep a look out for new open-door opportunities and know that they’ll come from the strangest of places one can never predict.

Intelligence is a trap. Personality is the game-changer.

People love looking smart or becoming smarter.

One’s personality will take them 5x further in life than intelligence. Intelligence matters less because AI and Google have outsourced much of our brain’s processing power to a computer. And even copywriting tools are available now.

So success is less about memorization and access to information and more about how you treat fellow humans and your ability to build relationships.

Nothing worth doing can be achieved without the help of others.

Those people who can help will solely be attracted to you based on personality.

It’s why emotional intelligence has become a buzzword. It’s why LinkedIn is drowning in content about soft skills.

Work on your personality.

Learn how to treat others better.

Find out how to be a more interesting person.

Become more likable through kindness and generosity.

Become a more honest person. Stop exaggerating and telling small white lies. Be brutally honest with people and watch them fall in love with you.

Weaknesses are attached to strengths.

Many people want to eliminate weaknesses.

With every weakness, there is a strength.

People that love the attention to detail struggle to take action without excessive information. Here’s the thing: both types of people are needed.

So rather than eliminate a weakness that comes with a hidden superpower, write down your weaknesses and outsource them to people who have them as a strength.

Goals are a fantasy. They’re something you might do someday. They need a to-do list and a woo-woo vision board full of pretty pictures to paint the dream.

When a pursuit in life is serious, though, you don’t leave it up to chance, luck, or magically finding time “one day.”

A real goal is an obsession.

Obsession leads to habits. Habits form systems. And systems automate success if you’re patient enough.

Forget goals. Create systems backed by habits.

Put tasks in your calendar.

If it’s not scheduled, it’s probably never going to happen.

Final Thought:

Feeling unmotivated and lazy or like you’re going nowhere is normal.

The shift that needs to happen in your head is “what am I going to do about my life?”

You now have a list of actions to do a U-turn and become a motivated, high-performing badass.

Action turns feeling lifeless into a snowball of motivation.