Nicholas Bate

How To Get What You Want in 2021. Despite COVID-19.

1. Write it down in 50 words or less: exactly what you want. Make it explicit. Detailed & concrete. And brief.
2. Now decide to turn the power of attention on that desire.
3. If there is one thing you can be sure of in 2021, it is that there will be 1001 things to potentially diminish, distract and destroy the power of your laser-like attention. BUT NOT FOR YOU.
4. Maximise your attention to manifest that desire by deciding that which you will do less of in 2021
5. You can do anything but you can't do everything.
6. Maximise your attention by automating everything you possibly can so your precious brain power is reserved for the vital few.
7. List your vital few. They get 90% of your time.
8. List your trivial many. They get 10% of your time.
9. Maximise your attention by building will-power muscle. Say no to everyday addictions: constant checking of the phone, junk TV and zero food-value snacks. Do less, achieve more.
10. Stop pinching time from sleep, relationships and health simply to be on a Zoom Call at a ridiculous time with The Mother Ship. It immobilises your oooomph.
11. Maximise that attention by building colossal reserves of energy: move, mobilise, meditate.
12. Create a plan. Action & date.
13. Fill that plan with short, simple, time-friendly, brain-friendly actions.
14. Ask your local friendly copy-shop guys to produce that plan in poster format: stick it on the door of your fridge.
15. Print & laminate a credit-card format of the plan. Carry it everywhere. Look at it every hour, on the hour. Work that plan and it will work for you.
16. Print an A4/A5 version and tape it into the front of your personal, paper note-book.
17. Do one action every day.
18. If your resolve should waver,(re-)read Into the Void and/or watch 127 Hours. At the end, close the book/switch off the screen, sit quietly and think sh*t and then get back to work.
19. Keep the plan visible. Put huge ticks against accomplishments. 
20. Update the plan but keep old versions with the ticks. Love your progress.
21. Notice the change in your mindset and physiology as you become t o t a l l y unstoppable.
22. Finally: Get What You want in 2021. Despite everything.

Just One Thing, 37 of 101

That Netflix list?

It is alternated with classics-to-read list?

TBC

Always more assistance in You, Only Better.

Just One Thing, 36 of 101

Don’t plan a NewYear’s Resolution.

Plan a New Year’s Revolution.

2021: think big.

TBC

Always more assistance in You, Only Better.

Just One Thing, 35 of 101

Write stuff down.

Reserve your collosal brain power for other tasks.

TBC

Always more assistance in You, Only Better.

Just One Thing, 34 of 101

Fresh starts don’t need a specific date, nor necessarily a SMART goal.

They do need a decision followed immediately by a first action.

TBC

Always more assistance in You, Only Better.

Sunday Melange, 18

1. How to Escape the Bunker
2. The Writing Primer.
3. How to Start your Very Own Business.
4. plus The Start Up Myths
5. Stay STRONG
6. Crazy Bold Experiments
7. Just say NO to PPT
8. Post Covid Business Essentials.
9. The Marketing Primer.
10. Redundancy
11. Covid-19, 101
12. Hunter-Gatherer 21C
13. Tackling Stress.
14. Manage that career
15. Be Bold 101
16. You still haven’t read Being The Best?! (Back in stock on 24th)
17. Things They Don’t Teach at Business School
18. the secrets of success

Just One Thing, 33 of 101

Don’t forget those thank-you notes.

TBC

Just One Thing, 32 of 101

Never become ‘too old’ for magic.

It’s everywhere for those who seek it.

Christmas

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