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Average = Failed Formula

Who among us wants an average marriage? Average income? Average relationships? Average outcomes?

Average is failing. Average is a disease.

How do we avoid regression to the mean? The easiest way is dramatically increasing your own personal goals and then figure out how to get them done faster. In the past, I would double or even triple the goals for new business founders to accomplish in 100 days. These new business leaders would be shocked that I thought they could get it all done. To be honest when I first did this, I wasn’t sure they could, but nonetheless I would then say to them, “Don’t adjust goals; adjust your actions. Winning is a choice. Success is a decision. Once you decide you will get the goals accomplished in 100 days, you will cut away all other options and paths and focus on a small set of actions and activities that will help you get it all done in 100 days.”

And guess what happened? They got it all done and more. They didn’t have an opportunity for retreat. The only way was forward.

We can each do the same in our own lives. Set big goals. Take extraordinary action. Get above average results. Accept no retreat.

When you shoot for average, you get less than average. When we shoot for extraordinary, even when we fall short, we will be above average.

The Stonecutter's Credo:

“When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”

— Jacob Riis

Questions to Get You Thinking

• Is there a way to accomplish all your goals for 2023 in the next 100 days? Why not?

• What is within your control to change RIGHT NOW?

• What if you were to take your current goals and multiple those outcomes by 10? How could you get 10X more done this year?

Life Planning for 2023?

Have you revisited and updated your life planning documents for 2023? Do it ASAP to set your year on a 10X path. Here is the template you need to get going.

Noteworthy Reading

The Dark Night of Soul “The purpose of this article is to shed light on this deeply miserable process of growth to come out the other side a more conscious and mature individual.” https://theapeiron.co.uk/the-dark-night-of-the-soul-understanding-amidst-the-absence-of-meaning-3494cb193bc2

Everyone is totally just winging it, all the time “One of the biggest causes of misery is the way we chronically "compare our insides with other people's outsides" https://www.theguardian.com/news/oliver-burkeman-s-blog/2014/may/21/everyone-is-totally-just-winging-it

Rest in Motion “Rest is not a reward for getting through all your obligations.” https://mindingourway.com/rest-in-motion/

A Letter to See’s Candy from Warren Buffett One of the few times that Warren Buffet ever talked about brand experience. https://theoraclesclassroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/1972-Buffett-Letter-to-Sees-Candies.pdf

Grab sometime with me to talk through any of these topics here.

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