Q4 Day 43

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It's revealed that the reason I won't work 4 hours a night and turn my business successful over-night is simple.

My ACT likes to keep things nice and manageable.

The way it shows up is that I say the following statement to myself...

"What's important is consistency.  A big burst of hours followed by a 2 weeks break doesn't mean shit.  That was me back in 2009 before I learned discipline and I'd log a bunch of hours even though a lot of them were hardly working.  The important thing is working every day and consistently and having superior discipline, those are the principles of success that all the self-help books have in common."

So, GOOD NEWS - this statement is WRONG.  It is pure ACT.  And I can prove it.

Proof:

Success = Achieving Objectives XYZ 

Achieving Objectives = results from actions, and actions take time.

TIME + ACTION = Achieving Objectives = Success.

I mean, this is the simple truth EVERYONE knows, and it IS what I knew in 2009.  I just had no discipline, that's all.  But my ACT made a story up about that.  It made it that I WASN'T ENOUGH - I COULDN'T SUCCEED - I DIDN'T HAVE THE DISCIPLINE.

And now, I think success is based on ONLY discipline, not because discipline has anything to do with success (it actually doesn't, btw), but because my ACT decided 10 years ago that I didn't have the discipline to be successful.

Discipline is a great tool and a big piece of most success generating formulas, but success is success and discipline is discipline.  They're different things.  You can be really disciplined and produce nothing but garbage and fail endlessly.  You can also be really talented and spend 2 years making a 5 minute song that should've taken you a week and become an instant success rock star once it hits the radio.

THE ONLY THING STOPPING YOU FROM SUCCEEDING IN YOUR BUSINESS INSIDE OF THE NEXT 90 DAYS IS YOUR ACT.  YOU ARE LITERALLY ON THE EDGE OF SUCCESS AND YOUR ACT WILL NOT LET YOU MOVE FORWARD. 

In fact, that's why my product is taking so long too.  It's why I'm a perfectionist.  The product doesn't have to be perfect - I just naturally need to maximize my odds because I'm not enough and I can't succeed so I need to spend years getting it perfect.

The idea that I'd set a fixed number of hours left to complete it and stick to the schedule is much harder for me than I yet realize.  I've been brutally failing at that concept and haven't even noticed.  The ACT is running my business, my entrepreneurship, and therefore, my life.  That's why I have a hard time reading my path and purpose paper.  It's inauthentic.  Until I commit to 4 hours a night, a set # of hours on the objectives, and going ham sandwich on this thing, my the "path and purpose" sections of that path and purpose sheet may as well be written in Chinese.

It's time to create from nothing a brand new path and purpose.

It can contain the same lines as before, or not.  Doesn't matter.  What matters is I don't use the old sheet to write it - don't even try to remember what the old sheet says.  Write a brand new one, and whatever ACTAULLY MATTERS from the old one WILL be remembered.  But this one should have stuff on it that have never existed for me before.  My path, in particular, should be brand new.

You've been stuck in the world of more, better, different.  In other words, the world of reasons.  Live in the world of action and integrity instead.  Performance (Success) is action, period.

New Path

[original notes]
Looks something like this (complete later)

-Set 4 hr / night + 8 on sundays.

-Apply true commitment to integrity - i will do this OR AT LEAST account for it and honor it every time.

-Be so successful by the time ILP rolls around I'm taking it just to round myself out.


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Changing The Game

Here's what's different:

1. No more quarterly, or even divisions on the sheet - ROARS sheets (non-frame integrity ones) will now be "from today onward for the foreseeable future".  This does not include frame integrity, that lies outside of ROARS and will continue to operate monthly/quarterly as a discipline report.  I am transforming ROARS this time... just ROARS.
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2. Hours are no longer planned out for a whole quarter in advance.  Hours are planned out on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, but are not necessarily restricted to that if I have a high level of confidence in my schedule a little further out.  Obviously if I know that I won't be working on a day (say, Christmas, for example) I can stick a 0 on that day far in advance which will help me set goals as I go in anticipation of the upcoming 0.
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3. The PASS / FAIL model is NO MORE!  Integrity will now be measured as "How many hours did I get vs. how many hours were scheduled?"  Higher-than-100% is possible.  The goal is 100%.  If I fall under, actions must be scheduled to catch up.