About 6 years ago, I turned 18, and decided that I wanted to bring redical change in my life.
Sound familiar?
Naturally, Iattempted the same change when I turned 20, 21 and now 24.
We're always facing ourselves, and life is a constant war against ourselves. As I have stated in the War thread that made me somewhat known in my Twitter corner"
"Life is war, it's not all it is, but it is always that."
Tell your son.
Won't explain.
But seriously, if you don't believe that, you don't believe that your life needs constant improvement, however succesful or satisfied you are. And being completely honest to yourself, you realize that your life is far from satisfying, right? Even if by other's standards it is, you're hardwired to never settle. Some people see it as unhappiness, something negative. I believe it is something you accept at some point and live with it. But what kind of life is that? You're better off making it work for you than let it gnaw at you form the inside, right?
Somewhere in my early twenties (I know, I'm still there) I decided to go extreme monk mode for at least a week, I laced it to a reward that was basically a necessity. It was something I enjoyed purchasing at the time, and it was also useful/necessary so I decided to cheat my lazy, dopamine addicted brain.
The result: I woke up each day at 4:45, had a short morning "routine" got to work by 5:30 and worked until 8:30-9:00 depending on how fast I ran out of flow. Then I ate abundant breakfasts (something I never did), continued working until early afternoon and caught up on all the things I previously procrastinated otherwise (reading books in my evergrowing list, writing what I planned to write, etc.).
I didn't last longer than a week. I did not know why. I did not care or bother to find out. The only thing I felt about this week was that it was one of my happiest weeks alive.
Why?
How?
No idea at the time.
Throughout the years that have since passed I've felt this pain that resulted from this. Kind of a nostalgia, where you reminisce about agood time you had, and it kinda hurts because it's past.
Earlier this year, my friend Leon shared his personal framework with me that answered ALL OF MY QUESTIONS regarding my happiness (which I found out to bo directly linked to my productivity) without actually talking about happiness. I was baffled as I restored clarity and got answers to my questions with which I gained some peace and reassurance to get my life straight once again, this time even more effectively. This program can be described as a productivity and time management tool, self-authoring system, etc. And it is all that, but it is so much more.
Leon, whom I also consider a mentor, turned a (I'm using his words here) "useless degree" in Architecture, with no prospects, into a brand new career in finance within 18 months. The experience he gained during that period + during the last 5 years of his career as a Venture Capitalist (a career not many have the grit, nor energy to sustain, let alone build) was now produced into 6 lessons, with scientific research and his own real world experience.
I got the Roadmap to review, as I was his first customer of the Phoenix program (you can get it here for free now) and this was a significant upgrade. On top of the lessons he included his own spreadsheet, and an explanation how that tool is used to systemize his life towards peak performance.
Once I got through the lessons, I got all the answers I previously didn't have and I quickly started trying out the systsem for myself. I went from setting goals to systematically achieving them through Leon's framework which is included with the lessons and is in my opinion worth the most. The difference I saw with the Roadmap is that it also guides you to align your actual purpose with the system so that you end up with a neverending well of healthy motivation.
In the first week I achieved what I had planned to get done in 90 days.
Let that sink in.
We usually overestimate what we can do in a year but underestimate what we can do in a decade, so I decided to have realistic, yet challenging goals. But I got it done in one damn week. Yes of course it helped that the lockdown had started & I had more time on my hands, but with a 9to5 or daily classes, this would have lasted 3 more days, not 3 months as I had planned before.
If you are currently in a place of doubt about your future, feel like you're not anywhere near your potential, feel that the dark side of your brain (dopamine addiction, laziness, entropy) has control over you, have lofty goals for the next decade but deep down know that they're merely dreams as you've not made any considerable progress, and want to REALLY change that,
The Selfmastered Roadmap is for you. Check it out and decide for yourself.
"If you believe a service can make peoples lives easier or improve it, it is your duty to tell them about it". I used to hate (still do, when it comes to subpar quality, which is 95% of the time) digital courses but I absolutely believe in Leon's Roadmap. I am living its positive effects and I have cultivated and improved the systematic flow state I once achieved during my "extreme monk mode" week thanks to this program. This time I have gone several months in "monk mode" instead of one week without a sweat thanks to the exercises and modules inside, that accompany the system.
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