HOW TO LIVE YOUR BEST LIFE ‘LIKE A BOSS’

Sep 27, 2016

  1. Put on your big girl knickers (boys included) and go BOLD. Go for the thing you really People usually start little, because they’re scared, so they ‘practise’ up to it.  The thing is, you don’t need to do that.  You just need to do your big thing right.  Put the effort in to taking action, and the little things will slot in along the way.
  2. Know the difference between fruitful work and meaningless slog. While you may not notice it at the time, Fruitful Work will feel so, so good.  Meaningless slog feels well, like a slog during as well as after – go with what feels like heaven (even if it’s the ‘hurts so good’ kind).
  3. Own it – no one is going to do the stuff for you.
  4. Love yourself—even when you suck. Life is hard sometimes.  Adulating ain’t all sunsets and unicorns.  Something is likely to suck every single day—so don’t question your self-worth when it does.  Life is nothing more than a series of experiments.  Hypothesising, trying, failing, tweaking, getting another bit right, tweaking, then succeeding.
  5. When you feel totally screwed and don’t have any time, simply stop time. Take a breath.  Take a drive.  Have brunch.  Life will slow down, and you will see the big picture again.
  6. Unsubscribe from comparing yourself to others. You might call it ‘looking for inspiration’ but often times it’ll drive you nuts.  Someone will always be better at you at something.  Instead hold yourself to a standard that is yours to own.
  7. Unless your family or friends are better than you are (at what you are doing) never ask them for advice, and don’t listen when they ‘offer’ it anyway.
  8. Your life needs to have a point. What’s your point?
  9. Kick feeling like an imposter to the curb. If you’re out there doing it, to whatever degree, you ain’t no imposter!
  10. If your ‘to do’ list is causing you anxiety. Slash it by 75%.  Get realistic and you will actually be more productive.
  11. Stand your ground. The people that don’t have principles won’t understand.  But they don’t matter.
  12. Specificity is power. “I’m going to go to CrossFit 3 times a week this month” is more compelling than “I’m going to get fitter.”
  13. Acknowledge ‘Arsey people’. They remind you of who you don’t want to be.
  14. Learn to distinguish what is important from things you are ‘giving importance’.
  15. Know that nothing is really that big of a deal. Most decisions hardly matter. Because life always changing, you are always adapting.  You will forever be tweaking.  So there is no need for anxiety if things aren’t perfect. You’re going to tweak them anyway.  Life is a game, you are a player.  But to play, you can’t sit on the side-lines – playing means getting amongst it, getting dirty.  Winning, and losing sometimes, but playing . . . like a boss!