How To Work Less & Earn More

You're a hard worker. You spend hours every day on the thing you want to achieve, sacrificing sleep and social life.

But even after months of effort, you've made little to no progress.

The problem probably isn't a lack of execution; it's a lack of clarity.

In this newsletter, we'll take a look at why you need systems AND how to create them.

It seems obvious. "To achieve my goals, right?"

Well, yes. But it's good to understand the whole mechanism.

I'll use an example of a system to better illustrate this.

If you are serious about making progress in the gym,

you want to track everything:

etc.

This allows you to gamify working out. And if you're anything like me, you love gamifying everything in life.

Because when we, as humans, enjoy a task we're doing and our skill matches the difficulty of that task, we can enter flow.

Flow is basically a state of unlimited focus.

But you can hardly enjoy something that seems confusing or complicated. So you need clarity.

In the gym example, you use spreadsheets to log out weight to gain understanding of what to do next.

This makes it really easy to come each day and get right into working out without overthinking.

You don't rely on motivation or even discipline really (obviously there is some required at the start). It's all fleshed out for you beforehand.

First, we need a goal.

That's not very hard. Everyone has goals.

But sadly, thinking about your goals really hard won't get you any closer to achieving them. That's mental masturbation. Goals feel good. Systems don't.

After you choose your goal, you come up with a plan to achieve it.

If your goal is to lose weight, you create milestones (smaller goals) and a way to progress through them.

So the plan might look something like this:

But this alone won't get you there. You still need to "gamify" (systemize) this.

That could look like creating to-do lists, spreadsheets, and non-negotiables for each day.

Once you have these in place, you're playing a game of "How much score can I get?"

You tick off to-dos, log morning weight, food, exercises, and your 10k steps.

You don't have to think about what you have to do; it's all there ready and waiting.

TLDR: Create a system, take off your thinking hat, and just do it.

Thank you for reading.

- Joni

BTW
If you need help with systemizing your freelance business or you are simply looking for someone to hold you hand, I do 1-on-1 coaching.

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