Ultimate Days Masterclass

Within minutes of Kobe Bryant’s reported death, wikipedia was updated.

People were tweeting about him.

Talking about how tragic it is.

Musing on how precious life is.

While many people talk about it…

Kobe Lived It

Some time ago I wrote about something special that Kobe showed is inside us all—

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.

What’s so special about folks like Kobe is they have all the same foibles as the rest of us.

It’s just, they never let it hold them back.

They’re maniacally focused on what most matters to them, and go after it HARD every day.

How Are You Using Your 86,400?

How many people will spend a few days talking about Kobe.

Talking about how life is precious.

How quickly it can all end.

And then get back to wasting many of their precious 86,400 seconds every day?

Kobe would never waste precious seconds on the clock that way.

Video Warning: It’s Pretty Extreme

It’s extreme to ask yourself, how many seconds a day are you wasting your life?

To ask yourself, if this was your last year on the planet, what would you cut out?

150,000 people die every day—roughly 2 every second—so what makes us think this won’t be our unlucky day?

We’ve been wary of putting out this video coz I still try to hide my extreme…

But Kobe made me think fck it, this is how I strive to play the game of life.

And it seems to me that Kobe lived much the same way.

Mamba Mentality.

You’re either focused on what truly matters or wasting your precious 86,400 seconds on the clock.

“Shoot for the moon and if you miss,” Norman Vincent Peale said, “You will still land among the stars.”

Powerful idea, right?

But, to shoot for the moon we of course need more than nice sounding ideas.

“There’s nothing easy about going for that moonshot,” someone said to me this week.

She’s right.

Which means, if you’re gonna really go for it, you want powerful methods to propel you all the way.

80/20 M&A

Stands for 80/20 Mind and Actions.

It’s just one of the many acronyms I use for unleashing your top performance.

See, there’s lots and lots and lots of noise on top performance.

Yet, in the end, there’s only two things that matter to deliver your absolute top performance:

1. Can you get your mind in the right place?
2. Can you take the actions that matter most to driving your goals?

And beyond knowing the crucial importance of getting your mind and actions on target…

Is, actually, well, being able to do it every day.

What You Know Doesn’t Get You To The Moon

It’s how you show up and do it that drives you all the way.

Hence, this notion of 80/20 M&A is built into my System For Ultimate Days.

For, if you’re shooting for the moon…

You want a way of showing up your absolute best every day.

That’s what I rant about in this video.

Shooting for the moon by unleashing your 80/20 M&A.

We’re off to the races.

Time flies whether you’re having fun or not, doesn’t it?

How many of us feel shocked looking at the calendar seeing we’re already half way through the month.

Then you’ve got MLK.

Before you know the month is done.

And Where Are Those Goals?

Of course many people lack goals anyways.

And others will soon be tapping out of their New Year’s Resolutions 🙂

But those of us with our dominant intent, clear on what we’re achieving this year…

Are focused on what does it take to keep driving forward?

We all know momentum is everything, right?

And building momentum is my answer to how you’re getting your year started right.

So How Do You Build Momentum?

In this video I talk about two powerful ways:

1. Build momentum in your year by “chunking down” your goals.
2. Build momentum in your days in the way you optimize your day.

Building momentum these ways, how aren’t you crushing your year!

A common theme in the year-end survey was that some people lacked 2020 goals.

Others had them, but it wasn’t clear they were focused enough on crushing them.

In this video I talk about what was missing—

Dominant Intent.

This article I wrote last new year—New Year’s Resolutions Are Stupid. Set Goals

Has been getting a lot of play.

It makes sense.

Many people are seeking a new temporary goal that will be long forgotten by Feb 15 🙂

I jest.

There’s some real good things that come from New Year’s Resolutions.

But only if they are done right.

Which is to say…

Instead of making up resolutions that will soon be forgotten.

Set real goals instead.

In this video I talk through 5 ways for turning stupid New Year’s Resolutions into powerful goals.

On Thanksgiving we went around the table and talked about what each of us are most thankful for.

Everyone had lots of good stuff to say.

I shared some things that were on my mind, but afterwards I realized I was missing something big.

Actually, it was more like I was missing many small things.

What Are You Thankful For?

I hope you too had a happy Thanksgiving.

Or if you’re in another part of the world, just a happy Thursday!

Thanksgiving here in America is a special holiday.

Not just an American tradition.

But there’s something special about giving thanks, isn’t there?

Whether it was Thanksgiving or just Thursday where you are, what is thanks-worthy for you?

What do you most give thanks for?

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