2023 is coming up fast. What is your plan? Do you know what you want to accomplish? Or is your plan to drift through another year, stressed and flying by the seat of your pants? Did you have a plan for 2022? If not, how did the year turn out for you? Please listen to the video below by Dr. Jordan Peterson to find the proper way to make a schedule. If your schedule feels like a jail sentence, you’re doing it wrong.
This is an important video bought to you by the Grow Successful channel on YouTube. People use the cliché, “it will change your life forever.” It’s nonsense. The only person that can change your life forever is you. If you’re overwhelmed, you change your life by taking action, one step at a time.
Time Index
0:00 – Stop suffering
1:08 – Get your act together
2:05 – Spend time making your life better – 10 minutes at a time
3:00 – Start where you can
3:21 – You see what you expect to see
4:10 – Aim up
5:10 – Once you aim, the world reconfigures around your aim
When you keep saying, “I’m broke,” “I can’t afford it,” “Prices are too high,” “People are mean,” or “I hate my job,” you know where you’re headed.
7:00 – CREATE A SCHEDULE
8:10 – Negotiate your schedule
Every part of you has to agree. The party animal has to agree to work. The no-nonsense part of you has to agree to play. Keep your commitment to yourself.
Example: The “all work” part of you can’t say, “I know, I know, but just five more minutes,” which turns into 5 more hours. The part of you that needs to play (or needs a break) cannot be cast aside.
The part that doesn’t want to work can’t say, “Just 5 more minutes of TV,” “I’m going to rest my eyes for just 10 minutes,” or “I’m going to focus on these NON-PRODUCTIVE tasks until I run out of time today.”
You are saying you cannot be trusted when you break your word to yourself. You commit to your plan every day. Even if you fail, you must get up the next day and try again.
10:10 – Your mission – DISCIPLINE
You know in your gut when you’re doing something you shouldn’t be doing because you feel AWFUL. It’s that nagging sense that you’re wasting time. It’s not the same as, “Be afraid and do it anyway.”
11:25 – Pursuing your highest goals
11:41 – What to do when you’re not happy
I’ll share something with you. I have a remote job. Comically, I thought the office politics, mean people, and terrible work conditions would go away. NOPE! For me, it got worse.
When I feel upset or afraid, I walk to my fridge and look at my calendar and look at my note, “Focus on what you CAN do.”
I shut my eyes and think:
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- Can I stop people from being mean-spirited jerks? No.
- Can I change the office politics or culture of this company? Perhaps, but not today.
- What CAN I do right now. I can do my job to the best of my ability. I’d take a deep breath and go back to work.
Did it work? I got a promotion in six months, and left the mean-spirited jerks behind. 😊
When people/situations are no longer relevant to your life, you don’t have to resist or work hard to make them disappear. They will disappear when they have nothing left to teach you.
12:50 – Two things to pursue
14:14 – What will sustain you during evil times
15:48 – The gloves come off. Welcome to basic training, aka boot camp.
16:40 – Mortal Combat
17:56 – The world shifting around your aims (apparently, worth repeating)
19:08 – CHAOS IS COMING
Several reports state we will go into recession in 2023. Some reports say it will happen in 2023 Q1; others say it will happen 2023 Q3. However, finance gurus have been screaming about a recession since Covid hit. You never know, but it never hurts to be prepared whether the recession hits or not.
20:15 – Twisting the fabric of reality
22:05 – The Kierkegaardian Leap of Faith is an interesting concept. Click the link for an explanation. If moment 2:58 of this 3-minute video doesn’t make you ROTFLOL, I don’t know what will.
23:15 – Why have a goal?
23:48 – Setting vs. Attaining a goal
24:24 – What should be your goal?
25:46 – PLAN YOUR GAME – the rules of your game must make sense to you
26:57 – Life is pain – don’t resist it; embrace it
Why make a plan now? Currently, you have 1.5 months to reflect on what you need to change and devise a plan to stick with. Hopefully, it will prevent you from procrastinating to the last second and coming up with lame, weak resolutions you’ll end up breaking three days into the New Year. I mean it; get on it.
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll continue to get what you always got.
~Tony Robbins
How did 2022 turn out for you? Were you one of the millions caught up in the emotion of the Great Resignation? Were you a rage quitter or a quiet quitter? It was exhilarating at the time. For a second, corporate America panicked, and they started handing out reasonable, livable wages.
The tables have turned. The same people that resigned ran out of unemployment, savings, or both, and are now desperate for work. Corporate America is well aware of it, and they are offering wages that are even lower than before. People are being laid off by the thousands (by email)!
If you’re tired of begging for scraps like a dog, it’s time to create your own game. I’m not saying it will be easy. Depending on where you are in your journey, it can be incredibly difficult. Do not look at others a decade (or more) into their journey and compare yourself to them or ask, “Why can’t I make $1M tomorrow?”
The first step is to dig yourself out of the hole you created. It could take months, years, or decades. You will never get out of the hole if you drift aimlessly with no plan to get where you want to go. Playground or battlefield, what will you design?
Do you have a plan for 2023 that you would like to share? Do you have questions or concerns about making a plan for 2023? Please, submit a comment below. We’d love to hear your thoughts.