New Years Resolutions. I do not make them because they rarely work. Without accountability to someone they almost always get lost somewhere in life. I found something that works for me very well. Previous year reviews. Try it. Remove the negative and soar.
1. Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.
2. Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.
3. For each week, jot down on the pad any people and activities that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month.
4. Once you’ve gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask “What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?”
5. Based on the answers, take your “positive” leaders and schedule more of them in 2018. Get them on the calendar now! Book things with friends and prepay for shit now! That’s step one. Step two is to take your “negative” leaders, put “NOT-TO-DO LIST” at the top, and put them somewhere you can see them each morning for the first few weeks of 2018. These are the people and things you *know* make you miserable, so don’t put them on your calendar out of obligation, guilt, FOMO, or other nonsense.
Try it, be vocal about how it goes.
Remember you are always in the right place at the right time, if you have the right attitude.
Thanks to Timothy Ferris for PYR. It can change your outlook and life.
