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Peak PerformanceThis week’s newsletter is brought to you by Peak Performance. Eric has been named CEO of the Year at the 2019 Business Excellence Forum, one of the Top 30 Entrepreneurs in the UK, 35 and under, by Startups Magazine, and among Britain’s Most Disruptive Entrepreneurs by The Telegraph. His work has been featured on over 7 major TV stations, in the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist. He has also appeared as a guest judge on The Apprentice with Lord Alan Sugar. Every week, he creates content that reaches hundreds of thousands of people across Twitter, his newsletter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and more. He’s also the author of the 3 Alarms: A Simple System to Transform Your Health, Wealth and Relationships Forever. Eric will deliver content to your inbox each week to help you with personal and professional performance. To change your life, Read Peak Performance. Start Where You AreEarlier this week I was having a coffee conversation with a colleague. She asked me how I’ve been able to achieve some of the things I have in life. Specifically, she wanted to know how I’m able to take those first steps when so many people are afraid to start. The first step should be the easiest but is often the hardest. She may have been referencing a post where I introduced myself and raised some of the goals I’ve accomplished over the last 12 years:
What she forgot was I’m 45. When you’re only 30 you can’t compare yourself to someone who’s 45, it’s not a fair comparison. You’re comparing your Step F to their Step Y. If you’re 20, it’s even worse, you’re still on Step B. Why it’s relevant, is most of these goals have been achieved over the last 12 years. That means for the first 33 years, I’d barely achieved anything in my life. That’s not fair, though, I’d laid the foundation:
I’d also learned how to build my Get Sh!t Done Muscle by completing an Ironman. But, I’d also hit a ceiling. I couldn’t crack through to the next level. While I’d agreed to part ways with the company I was at 11 years ago, in reality, when I look back on it, I’d been fired and put my family in a rough spot. Getting fired and putting my family in a challenging situation was what put us on the right track, though. It led to Deep Growth. Deep GrowthOver the last 15 years, I’ve had a few major life inflection points and each time I’ve learned something that’s allowed me to take my life to the next level. To me, it’s the Matrix of Deep Growth that allows us to achieve anything we want in life by focusing on our:
HardwareIt all starts with our Hardware. Literally, because our hardware is determined in our childhood. In our early life, we learn coping mechanisms that serve us then but often don’t serve us now. As Carl Jung says, Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Until we can fix our hardware, we don’t control our life. We’re controlled by our conditioning. To upgrade our Hardware, we need to engage in:
We need to understand our blind spots and what’s shaped our lives. SoftwareOur Software is our conscious thought and most of us need to upgrade it. The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.
– Robin S. Sharma
Upgrading my software was what allowed me to break through the barriers in my life. In fact, it’s what allowed me to remove the concept of barriers altogether. David Foster Wallace said the choice of what to think about is essentially our greatest power. The exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people… The only thing that’s capital-T True is that you get to decide how you’re gonna try to see it. Think about that for a second. You get the power to choose what you think. You get the power to choose how you’ll respond. This is why one of the books I recommend most often to people is Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, because it taught me how to upgrade my software. Here are some of the things we need to do to upgrade our Software:
Operating SystemsOnce we resolve our Hardware and Software, it’s time to get to work on our operating systems. This is the easiest of the three and it’s what too many people are focused on. This is the Hustle Brothers who are focused on productivity hacks and shortcuts without focusing on WHAT to FOCUS ON. As Peter Drucker said, Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing. You need to be Effective before you worry about being Efficient. If you haven’t resolved your hardware and software and you only focus on operating systems, you’re going to be the most productive person going in the wrong direction. My biggest takeaway, whether it was the Ironman, climbing the corporate ladder or growing our family’s wealth, was it all comes down to my Simple Formula:
To improve your Operating Systems, read these books and START:
TGG PodcastThis week on the Growth Guide Podcast, we talked to Kevin Kelly, a senior maverick at Wired, an award-winning magazine he co-founded in 1993. Kevin joined us today to talk about his book: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. The best way to learn is to learn from those who’ve come before us. Those who’ve experienced what we want to achieve in our lives. On his 68th birthday, Kevin began to write down for his young adult children things he had learned about life that he wished he’d known earlier. In this episode, Kevin shares his wisdom and insights on a variety of topics, including:
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