Recalibration
Sometimes, you overwhelm yourself, get stuck in a rut or otherwise need to change your game for the sake of your health, wealth or general quality of life.
You need to recalibrate.
Recently, a ton of people have been putting out good content. They’ve been experimenting, pushing forward and doing new stuff.
Stuff that I’ve thought, “I should have done that,” or, “why didn’t I do that?”
It’s pretty irritating when that happens, but I’m not going to give you milquetoast advice like, “Don’t think about others… only compete with yourself.”
That’s fine if you’re happy with young guys overtaking you and showing you up.
But if you want to feel young, virile and like the king of the lion pride, you’ve got to stay strong.
(Metaphors aren’t really my thing.)
Fighting with neuroplasticity stuff gets harder as you get older. I don’t know what exactly it is, but your willingness to experiment, break the rules, learn the rules and risk things gets lower as you age.
I’ve made the mistake the past couple of years of letting this happen as opposed to challenging it.
You must challenge it unless you want to be an old man before your time.
The above is totally bro-science, but accurate so far as I’ve found thus far.
Seeing The Signs
Here are some signs I’ve noticed:
- Are you working harder for fewer results?
- Do you get stressed out when you look at the computer?
- Is procrastination slipping in?
- Have your thoughts turned from “I can do that!” into “I wish I could do that?”
These are all signs you need to recalibrate.
How do you recalibrate?
Let’s find out.
Recalibrate
If you’re getting overwhelmed with your to-do list, or you’ve got a project that’s too big to handle, you need to recalibrate your brain to handle it.
There is zero point in sitting at your computer or sitting waiting to start your project.
Here’s what you need to do: forget the big picture.
Forget how it fits into your life and your business and whatever.
Then do Step One.
Then do Step Two.
You’ll find that if you abandon the big picture and just get on with the step ahead of you, you’ll get the ball rolling and the big picture will take care of itself.
Example
I have been talking about starting a private member site for months at this point and the first murmerings in my mind were two years ago.
And every time I’ve planned this site, the benchmarks have gotten more ambitious. The deadlines have gotten further away.
This is stupid beyond all comprehension.
Here’s what I’m doing now: I’ve set a hard deadline to myself.
By that point, it’ll be up in whatever fashion I’ve finished.
And of all the things I’ve planned to put in it; the ones that are finished will be finished and the ones that aren’t will be on the roadmap.
And so I’ll create a limited amount of content.
I’ll tell the email list about it.
I’ll invite all the people I’ve already promised a place to.
And in general, I’ll get on with it.
The big picture will come once I’ve taken the small steps.
That’s all there is to it, whatever your project size or scope.
Final Thoughts
So, three lessons here:
- Compete with other people so long as it’s healthy. Let them inspire you.
- The only way you’re going to remain youthful and progress as a person is if you keep doing new experiments and learning new things. The more you do of this, the easier.
- If you want to get started with something, put it out there.
- Forget the big picture until the ball is rolling.
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