How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals

Quote of Today

☀️ Feeling the summer heat yet? Happy Sunday.

⭐️ Let’s try something out today. We want you to think of your most ambitious goal…got it? Great! Hold that thought for a little bit.

🚀 Submit your most ambitious goal here: Form (anonymous)

⚡️Focus of Today

🙇‍♂️ Stephen Duneier, despite his self-proclaimed inability to focus for more than 10 minutes at a time, has an impressive list of achievements.

• He's a licensed racer,

• An aerobatic pilot,

• A self-taught German speaker,

• A successful hedge fund manager,

• Set the world record for knitting the largest granny square in the world at 1,300 square feet.

⚡️ Here are some key takeaways from Duneier's talk:

• 🏆 Duneier emphasizes that achieving our most ambitious dreams is less about possessing a magical skill or talent, and more about how we approach problems and make decisions to solve them. He refers to this as the "decision success rate" - the ability to make better decisions that increase the probability of winning.

• 🎾 He illustrates this concept using the example of Novak Djokovic, a tennis star who increased his winning statistics not by aiming to win more games, but by focusing on winning each point. This small change in perspective led to more games being won.

• 📚 Duneier encourages us to be active participants in our decisions. Instead of being overwhelmed by a large task, such as reading five chapters, start with five paragraphs and use breaks to your advantage. This approach of breaking down big concepts and complex ideas into more manageable tasks worked well for him. What about for you?

• 🇩🇪 An example of this is when Duneier had a 45-minute commute to work, which translated into 360 hours each year. He decided to use this time productively by listening to German language CDs. As a result, he became fluent in German.

👀 Duneier challenges us to consider what marginal changes we can make in our day to achieve our goals. What small decisions can we make that will have a large impact towards our goals?

🏔 He didn't make a resolution to lose 25 pounds. Instead, he resolved to hike all 33 trails in the Santa Barbara mountains. The focus was not on the 33 trails, but on the small decisions to make productive choices, like putting on his hiking clothes.

💯 In conclusion, Duneier's approach to personal development is a testament to the power of marginal improvements and the importance of breaking down tasks into their simplest form. It's not about the grand gestures or the big leaps, but the small, consistent steps we take towards our goals.

❤️ As we say here at Little by Little, it's the small things that make the big difference. What step can you take towards your ambitious goal?

As always…

With love,

— Amir and Erik

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