10 Best Ideas About Leadership, Focus, Habits and Finding Purpose
(How You Can Combine Them To Overcome Obstacles In Your Life)
1. Identity = Purpose + Resilience
Knowing Your Purpose
In his book “Start With Why”, Simon Sinek talks about how great leaders inspire others.
The order of communication?
Inside out.
WHY → HOW → WHAT
Start with the core of “Why”, their purpose, cause, or belief.
Use the systems circling “How”, their proceses and understanding
Rationalize with "What", the outlays from the why and the how.
Cultivate Resilience
I was immensly moved when I read “Obstacle is the Way” by Ryan Holiday.
My takeaways were:
Obstacles do not impede success
Bottlenecks are opportunities to improve and grow
Embrace challenges to beef up your resilience
2. Realization = Clarity + Focus
Finding Clarity
Good decisions lead to:
Achievement
Impact
Growth
In contrast, bad decisions may led you to:
Setbacks
Regrets
Loss
Improve decision-making using WRAP in “Decisive” from Chip and Dan Health:
W - Widen Your Options
R - Reality-test Your Assumptions
A - Attain Distance Before Deciding
P - Prepare To Be Wrong
Focus
I love reading fiction. Especially thrillers and romance.
Then, I picked up my first book on self-improvement.
“The One Thing by Gary Kellar.
I have since ditched fiction (not entirely!) for self-improvement.
Whenever you are lost, always use the one thing to guide you back.
3. Growth = Mindset + Resilience
Mindset
Your abilities and intelligence can be developed through “Mindset”.
Carol Dweck explore this idea with the concept of a growth mindset.
Be dedicated and work hard.
This perspective fosters:
Resilience
Learning
Drive for continuous improvement
Resilience
Read the top part again. It’s encompassed.
4. Leverage = Discipline + Efficiency
Discipline
Success is the result of small, daily disciplines compounded over time.
Jeff Olsen talks about “The Slight Edge”, when you take small, positive actions everyday, compound to create huge, significant results.
The opposite is also true.
Efficiency
You may know “The 80-20 Principle” by Richard Koch.
Focus on the few vital tasks yielding significant outcomes.
Eliminate the rest.
Maximize efficiency.
This takes discipline.
And results in Leverage.
5. Consistency = Routine + Organization
Routine
There are thousands of advice on routines out there.
Popular routine topics:
Morning
Evening
Productivity
Health and Wellness
Mindfulness
Learning
Financial
Creative
Relationship
Self-Care
The best advice I received came from Robin Sharma’s “The 5am Club”.
Though I’d (shamelessly) admit I don’t wake up at 5am.
After many trials and errors, I created my own routine (I combined morning and evening for best results).
Anything you learned about routines, tweak them to fit yourself.
Organization
James Clear’s “Atomic Habits” are very clear on this topic.
Combine this with the GTD methodology from David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”:
Capturing all tasks and ideas
Process them systematically
Focus on execution
Use the “Bullet Journal” method explained by Ryder Carroll:
Organize tasks
Set goals
Reflect on progress
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