UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

After isolating the goal and quantifying it, break it down into its core “take-action” component, or what I call “the daily target.” What daily routine will get you there? For example, if your objective is to write a novel, your daily target could be to write 500 words every day, or a minimum of two hours. If your objective is 12 percent body fat,

Apply Mathematics to the Goal After envisioning how awesome your new year will be, attach a numerical figure to your goal. If “lose weight” is the goal, this would translate into “lose twenty-five pounds” or “get to 12 percent body fat.” Likewise, if your goal is to “start a business,” you would need to identify a numerical number, say sales, profi

If you’re trying to stop playing video games, pack up your Xbox console and sell it. Or throw it in the attic. Now if you want to play, you’ve got to climb a ceiling ladder and crawl through a dusty attic to unpack it, wire it up, and play.

Identify Threats to the Daily Target What threatens your daily target? In order to hit your targets, identify what will stop you from achieving them. What impedes success and prevents real change? Success is more about what you need to STOP doing versus START doing. Are you spending five hours a day on Facebook playing the latest game? Are you jump

Identify and Visualize the Change Target. What exactly do you want? Envision yourself time-shifting one year into the future at a New Year’s Eve party. Envision yourself celebrating the year that was, the year that changed everything. Take a moment and reflect on the accomplishments you hope to celebrate. Did you win a fitness competition? Did you

Underneath the special scam lies the greatest destructive force to our dreams: a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset is the belief that talent alone causes success and that your basic qualities of intelligence, athleticism, and even rhythm are fixed traits that cannot be changed or improved.

CHANGE ADVERSITY: WHY REFUSING CHANGE IS REFUSING EXCELLENCE

AUTHENTIC YOU VS. YOUR BRAIN In the Seinfeld sitcom, Newman is Jerry’s mortal enemy. In our UNSCRIPTED fight, our Newman isn’t an external adversary—it’s our brains. Every one of us fights an inner battle between our soulful desires and our brain’s reflexive impetuses. In one corner, there’s an authentic you—striving for success and happiness. In t

Success is simpler than you think: ax the shortcut, honor the process-principle, and do the necessary work.