Thread by @thedankoe

The Hierarchy of Getting Shit Done

(How to set big goals and actually achieve them)

*THREAD*

1) Top of the pyramid: Vision

In order to become the person you want to become

You need to KNOW who you want to become, right?

You need to know what kind of lifestyle you want to live.

4 hour work weeks living in a beach house?

Huge plot of land + farm + family?

Take 20 minutes

Sit down with a paper and pen

Write out what YOU would like to see as your future lifestyle

What climate do you want to live in?

How much money do you want to make?

How does your fitness/physique look?

Do you want a family? How big?

2) Anti Vision

This one is simple

From all of those questions above, answer in the opposite way

Where do you NOT want to live?

How much money is NOT enough?

In short, what do you want to stay far away from?

This should scare the shit out of you.

3) Reverse Engineering (Goals)

Now, we know what we want (and what we don't)

The only logical thing to do would be reverse engineering it

The best way to do that is with time specific goals

Our big goals will be

- 10 year goals
- 5 year goals
- 1 year goals

Where do you want to be physically & financially by then?

What degree of the lifestyle you want to live can you achieve by then?

Make these a *tad* out of reach, not too easy - but not unrealistic

4) Refine

From the larger goals, break them down into monthly goals

I usually do this at the end of every month (not along with the other goals)

Same goes for weekly goals

This is probably sounding like a lot right now - but weekly reviews of your progress are powerful

5) Daily actions

THIS is where the magic happens

You know exactly where you want to be 1, 5, 10, 50 years from now

But what actually move the needle forward?

The things you do on a daily basis.

We aren't going to focus too much on your entire todo list

We are mainly focused on high priority tasks

The tasks that will help you achieve your weekly, monthly, yearly, etc goals

These can be repetitive, or one off

6) Example - Money

Let's focus on a money example

Your monthly goal is making $5000 out of your job

Lets say you are a freelancer and you charge $2500

You need 2 clients in 1 month

Your high priority *daily action* would be to cold email / DM prospects for an hour every morning

This alone would put you on track to hitting your monthly goal

7) Example - fitness

Pretty straightforward

You want to lose 60 pounds in a year, 5 pounds a month

Each day, you need to eat X amount of food, move X amount, and lift X amount

8) Morning + Focus

Overall, your MAIN focus should be on your daily actions

These should be done in the morning - or, when your energy is highest so you can focus

For most, this is the morning

No distractions, just knocking priority tasks out before the world even wakes up

Final thoughts:

One last thing you can, and should, do

Remind yourself of your vision / anti vision on a regular basis

This will help you see "the light at the end of the tunnel" if things start getting overwhelming

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Thanks for reading,

- Dan

P.S.

The concepts in this thread are exactly why I made the Power Planner

If you want a guided approach to this, print the planner out and enjoy

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