This is your opportunity to change anything, behaviorally.

You can change anything you want.

Not everything you want, right? That's the problem.

You can become anything you want behaviorally, but you can't be everything you want.

So you need to pick a small number.

What would have to happen at the end of next year to look back and consider this year a success?

I think that really helps to just give you a bit more perspective.

And it usually comes down to only a few things.

Setting the bar unrealistically high does not increase your performance.

Imagine this.

Imagine that you went into a buffet and you made your plate as big as possible.

You said, I want all of these things. I'm going to put all of this stuff on my plate.

And my stomach is going to expand to be able to fit it.

That's not the way that our stomachs work. And that is not the way that our workloads work.

So, first rule, in order to pick something up, you have to put something down.

Don't assume that just because you've loaded more onto your workload plate, your work capacity will expand to be able to fit it into your stomach. That's not the way that it works.

Make the assumption, I can do no more than I'm doing now. I can switch stuff, but I can't add more in. Maybe you can, maybe you're going to be able to squeeze your phone time, maybe you're going to be able to become more efficient, more productive, whatever. But it's safer to just assume this is the pie that I'm playing with, and in order to pick something up, I have to put something down. That means I'm going to have to take something off the play.

We don't think about subtraction because we think of addition.

Unfortunately you can't take somebody else's purpose or success.

You can't wear it as a suit. It's a bad idea, right?

Because it's going to not fit. Let go or be dragged. That means if you're

not careful with how you design what it is that you chase after, you can spend your entire

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