The Easiest Way to Accomplish Goals
The Easiest Way to Accomplish Goals
I use this cheat code everywhere in life
The easiest way to accomplish ANY goal is to find a tangential goal that is enjoyable and achievable, focus executing on that, and let your primary goal come as a side effect.
Several years ago, I discovered how to do this with fitness, following 4 key rules:
1) Must eat delicious food every meal of every day
2) Any equally good tasting, healthy alternative must be consumed most of the time (e.g. home made tacos vs restaurant tacos)
3) No bad food unless craving it
4) Only allowed to workout smarter, not harder
I never "set out" to get shredded. I set out to follow a plan that I thought was FUN. And I basically collected interest on a well structured plan for years:
The coolest part now is that I've been able to share this approach with hundreds of others. This experiment I ran to see what would happen if I ONLY ate delicious food has clearly expanded beyond N=1. Last week this awesome message came from the training group I run:
This approach can also be applied in life. I encourage all my mentees to lean into their hobbies. They might not be lucrative right away, but they’re the easiest thing to dedicate a couple hours a day to building after work, because you already like them.
You are much more likely sustain this effort for years, which makes it much more likely that you can build an income stream from it that can replace your W2 job.
Life begins when you realize that challenging work is best accomplished when formatted in a way you can enjoy and sustain.