Routines of interesting people.
Plus: Reframing your first world problems, language conditioning and speech to text for email
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Idea #1 — An iPhone productivity tip.
Use the speech to text feature on your keyboard to craft emails quickly.
Why this matters. You should be looking to optimize everything you do so you can free up valuable time to spend it in the areas of your life that matter most. Email is one of those things that sucks up a lot of this precious resource.
4 practical tips.
Don’t be wordy. Ask for you what you want or say what it is you need in as few words as possible and then zip it.
Tell people how many things you are going to talk about and then number them so they are easy to read/scan.
For a period, say “Period.” Same goes for other punctuation.
For a new line, say “New line.” Say it twice if you want a space between ideas.
An example of the finished product.
The bottom line. You could easily free up 30 minutes a day using this method.
Idea #2 — Language conditioning.
I talked about this foundational mindset in a recent newsletter. I have been thinking about it a lot of late and wanted to bring it up again.
“Never say anything about yourself you don’t want to be true or come true.”
I call this Language Conditioning. If this was a book, it would look like this.
Why this matters. We can condition ourselves to speak in ways that attract more of what we want and less of what we don’t want. The opposite is also true.
An example. On October 6th, 19 days before the 1986 world series, Bill Buckner said this…
Here’s what happened 19 days later.
The bottom line. Never give a voice to your nightmares.
Idea #3 — Reframing your first world problems.
A quick story. Twice in the last 5 days I had to take my father to the hospital emergency room. On each occasion we were there for 9 hours, with the first 6+ hours spent in waiting rooms. It was tempting to get frustrated with the wait, but I didn’t.
Instead, I did a mindset reframe.
I thought about my American friends who don’t have this luxury. They would happily wait 9 hours to get access to free quality healthcare.
Why this matters. Mindset reframing is a powerful tool to positively alter our perspective and behaviours.
The bottom line. Reframe your “first world” problems using a “third world” mindset.
*Ps. My dad is doing incredibly well now!!!!
Idea #4 — The routines and rituals of interesting people
I stumbled on a site called “Routines.”.I believe it is new as there were only 3 profiles last week, and now there is a fourth.
Who is profiled — So far it’s only prominent males.
Peter Attia, author of “Outlive: The Science & Art of Longevity”
Andrew Huberman, host of the “Huberman Lab Podcast”
James Clear, author of “Atomic Habits”
Tim Ferriss, host of “The Tim Ferris Show.
*Hopefully we will see some women’s routines profiled here soon.
Why this is useful. Successful people are system driven. Seeing how these people structure their day is inspiring and leads to ideas to help us build our own systems for success.
Bottom line. The depth of these profiles is incredible. Hopefully it will inspire you to build out your systems for success.
Go deeper → Routines
Idea #5 — The ABCD Framework
This comes from restauranteur Danny Meyer.
“Always Be Collecting Dots, so you can Always Be Connecting Dots.”
Why it matters. It’s a great way to think about learning. Every book we read, every conversation we have, every course we take, and every podcast we listen to should be done with the goal of collecting “dots” that we will be able to connect later in ways we could never imagine.
Visual this connects to. David Perell put out a tweet that really connects nicely to this idea.
Bottom line. Make sure you have a system to collect your dots, so you have the ability to one day connect them.
Thank you for reading my friend.
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