UNSCRIPTED: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Entrepreneurship

Identify the Daily Action Target

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.

new skills can be acquired and mastered regardless of your current level of talent or intelligence.

The shortcut scam is the idea that extraordinary results can be achieved by uncovering a secret bypass or a miracle weapon, and such can skirt the real hard work that actually creates the extraordinary results.

The point is, whatever the goal, work until you strike your first echo. And when that happens, notice how you feel. Once you get to that first echo, there’s usually no going back. Even if it’s marginal results, you empower yourself forward.

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,

Identify the Proper Battlefields You can’t build new habits without an intelligent awareness applied to the proper battlefields. Most people fight their wars on the wrong battlefield, resulting in loss after loss. If you only knew where to fight, you would have a fighting chance to create the change you want.

The web is rife with inexpensive learning institutions (Ex: Udemy, Code Academy, Lynda, Stanford Online) where new skills don’t require cash; they require a growth mindset and a Kaizen commitment.

Change keeps you poor or makes you rich. You decide which.