Fwd: Jolly Marathon What did I learn this year?
Subhash Macha
From: Amul Vora <amul...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:26 AM
Subject: Jolly Marathon What did I learn this year?
To: amul.vora <amul...@gmail.com>
What did I learn this year?
Some of my major lessons from this year include:
If you don't know what to do, focus on the fundamentals.
Progress doesn't need to be complicated. Skip all of the cutting edge tactics and focus on the key habits that deliver great return.
Here are a few habits that have a high rate of return in life:
· sleep 8+ hours each day
· lift weights 3x week
· go for a walk each day
· save at least 10 percent of your income
· read every day
· drink more water and less of everything else
· leave your phone in another room while you work
Mastery requires both impatience and patience. The impatience to have a bias toward action, to not waste time, and to work with a sense of urgency each day. The patience to delay gratification, to wait for your actions to accumulate, and to trust the process.
Curiosity is crucial. Increasingly, I feel an eagerness to learn is one of the most crucial skills in life. If you're not curious, I'm not sure if there is much others can do to help you. But if you're eager to learn, even if you aren't particularly talented, then so much is possible.
Entrepreneurship is never as sexy on the inside as it appears on the outside. Whoever your entrepreneurial idols are, they have plenty of headaches behind the scenes.
You are only as mentally tough as your life demands you to be. Life will throw plenty of challenges your way, but there will be easy days too. An easy life fashions a mind that can only handle ease. Like a muscle that atrophies without use, mental strength fades unless it is tested. When life doesn't challenge you, challenge yourself.
The margin between your best performance and your average performance is less than you think. In 2017, I averaged 15.7 workouts per month. In 2018, I averaged 11.7 workouts per month. At first glance, I considered it a modest difference. Only 4 workouts less each month? That's about one less per week. And I was still making it into the gym consistently.
But then I realized I didn't set a personal record in any major lift in 2018. Conversely, I hit PRs in nearly every major lift in 2017. One workout per week doesn't sound like much, but that was the difference between my average performance and my best performance.
Move toward the next thing, not away from the last thing. Same direction. Completely different energy.
No is a decision. Yes is a responsibility. When you say no, you are only saying no to one option. When you say yes, you are saying no to every other option. One of my key themes in 2019 is to think carefully about what I say yes to and make sure I protect my time.
That's it! As always, thanks for reading. Happy New Year!
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