THE MONDAY LEADOFF

Hi my friend 🫡

Here are five helpful ideas about decision-making.

1. The quality of your decisions eventually determines how far you go and how fast you get there.
2. When you evaluate a decision, focus on the process you used to make the decision not the outcome.
3. Unless you evaluate your reasoning at the time you made the decision, you'll never know whether you were correct or just lucky.
4. Good judgment is expensive, but poor judgment will cost you a fortune.
5. Emotions can multiply all of your progress by zero.

GRAPHIC OF THE WEEK

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GUIDING PRINCIPLE:

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Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around their neck that says, 'Make me feel important.'"

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The difference between great success and bitter failure is often found in consistently applying the fundamentals.

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Make conversations unique. The more unique a conversation is, the more you feel trust in that relationship.

WHAT'S BEEN WORKING

1.

Stories > Statistics

The average impact of statistics on beliefs fades by 73% over the span of a day, whereas the effect of a story fades by only 32%. Lately, I've been focusing more on storytelling to communicate information. It seems to be landing well.

2.

The Blank Sheet Notetaking System

I just learned this process. It's a 5-star method on the Coach Rice notetaking process scale. Here are the four steps:

1. Before you start reading a new book, take out a blank sheet of paper. Write down what you know about the book/subject you’re about to read — a mind map.
2. After you finish a reading session, spend a few minutes adding to the map with a different color pen.
3. Before you start your next reading session, review the page.
4. When you’re done reading, put these ‘blank sheets’ into a binder that you periodically review.

QUOTE I'M PONDERING

“When you are distressed by an external thing, it's not the thing itself that troubles you, but only your judgment of it. And you can wipe this out at a moment's notice.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Nothing but the best,

Matt 🎯

P.S. Here's how breathing can induce calm throughout the day. Link to the article.