How to Learn Many Things at Once... very useful if you are in my coaching program

There"s so much you want to learn, need to learn, should learn... so much, in fact, that you don"t know where to start.

Most people get inspired for some goal, sprint at max effort for 1-2 weeks, burn out, push the goal into the back of their mind, and never touch it again. New Year"s resolutions are a classic example. Campaigning.

Let"s look at how to improve your chances of success.


First things first—check your bases.

The first thing you should do is touch base with yourself. Ask: "Is what I want what I want?"

I know that is a funky question... of course... but ask it anyway! It may not be necessarily so!

Sometimes, we lie to ourselves about what we want. Other times, we are being deceived and we don"t even know it. We might want to do something because of vanity, because our neighbors are doing it, because of our self-identity, or because of some long-held "dream" from childhood.

Begin by doubting yourself. Find the things you actually want – not the things you say you want. It will save a lot of time on the long run.

Reflect and make space.

Next, you need to make space. Before you decided to change, your day is already full. You slept, ate, work and did stuff — 24 hours a day, every day. To make room for new things, something else will have to go. There is always a sacrifice.

In an ideal world, we would surgically remove bad habits, activities, people that are least in line with our goals and add in only those things most in line with the goals. Sadly, behavioral change isn"t quite that precise. But that doesn"t mean we can"t be systematic about it.

Here"s how I"d do make space for the new:


1. Track. Figure out what your typical day looks like: when you woke up, when you went to work, how many hours you spent on task A, B, C, etc. and what time you went to sleep.


2. Dissect. Figure out what you can sacrifice. Are you wasting time on the Internet? Are there low-quality people in your life? What are the 10-20% of activities that are making up 80%+ of your empty, meaningless time reducing your productivity to 20%? Remember the Pareto principle?


3. Replace. Notice I didn"t say add. Adding is hard — you are already using all 24 hours, remember? the basic protocol is: (1) identify the trigger for the activity or habit you want to replace, (2) spend 1-2 weeks "re-programming" that trigger to your new, more beneficial activity.




Again, remember that making space is hard. You will only be able to do one new thing, two at most.

Choose the most important thing, spend 1-2 weeks making that practice into a habit, then repeat the above process for new changes you want to make.

How to choose the "most important thing?" By choosing the lead domino.

Choose the lead domino.

I heard of this concept from Tim Ferriss. When you have a lot of interesting things ahead of you and you don"t know what to choose, choose the thing that makes everything easier. If you want to run a m
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