10 Ways to Crush 2020
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Patrick Coffin
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🗓️ 4 January 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
In no particular order:
1. Don't make a New Year's resolution. Make a plan.
2. As Nir Eyal says in his fine book “Indistractable,” master your internal triggers. Listen to them. My interview with him:
3. Speaking of writing things down, well everyone gets excited about to-do list, write a not-to-do list.
4. Cry more. The shortest verse in the Bible is John 11:35 and describes what Jesus did when he learned that his friend Lazarus had died. “Jesus wept.”
5. Pick up your smartphone and delete your social media apps. Delete them. I dare you.
6. Small is huge. A lot of us get grandiose ideas about how this year's going to be different/way better/more powerful etc than last year, and we forget that small wins are the key to success.
7. Don't lie to yourself about your willpower. None of us have strong willpower. You are weak, and I am weak, and we both need constant, deliberate reliance on the grace of God to do anything well.
8. Get thee to a Latin Mass. Go for the sumptuous silence, the reverent atmosphere, the sight of young large families, the smells and bells, the fellow Catholics actually singing, and the aerobic exercise afforded by sitting, standing, and kneeling.
9. Don't argue about the Faith. Even if you win the argument, as Bishop Sheen said, you can lose the soul. I know this sounds counterintuitive, but...
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Patrick Coffin. Right now I'm updating something I said, oh, 12 months ago. |
| 0:08.0 | This time focusing on how to crush 2020. Are you ready? Oh, this just in. We've just learned that this coming year |
| 0:17.5 | will have exactly 24 hours per day with the additional 24 hours on February 29th. |
| 0:24.2 | So if you're planning on doing something that can't be completed within that time frame every |
| 0:29.4 | day, you are out of luck. |
| 0:31.4 | But if you want to make the absolute most out of the coming year, here are my |
| 0:35.8 | top 10 tactics for total tenacity and triumph. And I apologize for the terrible |
| 0:42.0 | illiteration. |
| 0:43.2 | Here they are, in no particular order. |
| 0:45.1 | Number one, don't make a New Year's resolution. |
| 0:48.9 | Make a plan. |
| 0:49.9 | See, if you made a resolution, you've probably broken it already. |
| 0:53.4 | New Year's resolutions have a terrible track record of long-term success. |
| 0:57.3 | It's easy to get all excited and passionate about what you're going to do next year, |
| 1:01.7 | but that's no substitute for the alternative, which is to make a plan. |
| 1:06.8 | A plan is like a pact with yourself. Write it down. Tell a loved one that you're committed to |
| 1:12.2 | whatever you're trying to get to, and you |
| 1:14.7 | instantly join the 5% of people who find it important to write things down, like marriage |
| 1:19.1 | certificates, contracts, baptismal certificates, car loans, and the like. |
| 1:23.8 | Number two, as near Aol says in his fine book, |
| 1:26.4 | Indistractable, master your internal triggers. |
| 1:30.2 | Pay attention to the things inside you that are hampering you getting things done. |
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