How To Reset Your Life In 7 Days

I can't find joy in life anymore

00:00two months ago I wrote this in my notes because I like to occasionally write letters to myself for awareness if I'm going through a difficult period I can't find joy in life anymore it's not the same remember when you used to go on long walks while reading or listening to lectures audiobooks or podcasts and your mind would light up with ideas you couldn't stop writing everything felt seamless that period was like a blur a 6-month Flow State you built three products gained millions of ERS and even wrote a book if you had to do it all over again right now could you do it

00:35just as well no way what did your days look like I would wake up go down to the lake for a walk sit on a bench in front of that pond read a book and highlight it non-stop then I'd go back home take a shower walk 10 minutes to the coffee shop and write for 2 hours those 2 hours every morning built the entirety of your life right now then I'd go home again eat breakfast you were experimenting with different diets Maybe that's a clue due to the novelty in dopamine from experimentation and go out on another walk a little afternoon I'd go to the gym eat afterward learn on YouTube a bit

01:10and then go on yet another walk you'd close the day out catching up with friends maybe working a bit more and watching a show it's been bugging me for too long and after thinking about it quite a bit I just knew that there was a way to get back to this higher state of mind maybe not the lifestyle itself but just the State of Mind the the enjoyability of that lifestyle the state of mind that it gave me but I'm not one to complain because I like to fix my problems before I come and give the solutions to you so hopefully this can help you with me solving this problem of not being able

01:45to just find joy in life anymore and if you're anything like me you've noticed that these low periods in life are cyclical for a few months you feel on top of the world and you can't stop making progress then the next few months start to slow down you start to maintain things you're feeling good but it's it's not the same and then last you hit a wall your vision is exhausted you feel lost negative thoughts begin to flood your mind they can Cloud your mind and prevent you from collecting hints at your next purpose in life that sends you down a rabbit hole of obsession this

02:15video is for those in that last phase the ones that can't find the same zest for life that they used to the ones that can't find joy in just reading a book or walking in nature so two notes before we actually get started with this first is that my book the art of focus launches to the public on January 16th you can pre-order the Kindle or the audible version via the link in the description or if you're just looking forward to the paperback then mark your calendars for January 16th and just pay attention to my social media or join the newsletter so you know when that is actually going

02:51out second is that cortex University which is our college level experience for the Creator economy is open for enrollment I'll keep that one short you can start your digital career in 90 days via the link in the description so first

Your Mind Is A Supercomputer Running The Game Of Life

03:04off I want to talk about how your mind is a supercomputer running the game of life I want you to think of your mind as a supercomputer your ability to process information is dependent on a few things but I want to bring your attention to your RAM ra Ram or random access memory is one of the most important parts of a computer it determines performance the more RAM you use up with different programs running open browser tabs and the performance requirements of what you have running the slower your performance will be this is no different from your focus or what you hold in your conscious

03:37attention humans can process 10 to 50 bits of information per second with their conscious mind they can process much more with their unconscious mind going up to 11 million bits per second so that's things that we become accustomed to over time that we don't necessarily have to focus on anymore like walking or whatever skill you've practiced if you're really good at tennis then you don't really have to think too much about it or shooting a basketball or building a business or making money they're all the same skills you can use the 11 million bits of information and store information in

04:10them over time to help you achieve the life that you want to achieve but your conscious attention how you learn that information how you interact with reality can only process 10 to 50 bits of information per second that adds up to around 125 billion bits of information in your entire lifetime take note of that number most people live with multi multiple high demand programs running that are draining the limited Creative Energy they have thoughts about regretful past mistakes thoughts about stressful future happenings desires of hunger and entertainment to escape those

04:41thoughts an internal cry to break out of their conditioned way of living a list of mixed priority tasks that need to be finished open Loops of tasks they were supposed to complete but forgot about the list goes on and on the modern mind has its attention split in infinite different directions by default we go about our lives stressed and near sick rather than with singular focus on a vision for the future being able to shift that Focus simply to collect High signal information that help you actualize that Vision when we hold too much of the past or future within the

05:11contents of our Consciousness that's when chaos ensues that's when entropy happens because you're split from focusing on the system that actualizes your vision and your attention is just being manhandled towards all of these different things and it splinters off into the all of these chaotic negative thoughts it deconstructs or allows your the system that your mind operates on consistently singularly that brings meaning to your life to fall apart so back in that period of my life where everything that I noticed was novel it made me feel good the entire six-month

05:46phase was just a flow state of me building out products writing the book Etc is because one I had a vision for the future I had a project to actualize that vision and everything I consumed all of my self-education all of my exper experiences I was able to take that creative Firepower that came from those the novel ideas and fuel them towards those things and that's all my life was was just input output input output I was just a vessel for reality to flow through in a channeled way towards a

How To Win The Game Of Life

06:14goal now we need to understand how to win the game of life so let's imagine the 125 billion bits of information that you can process in your lifetime as your life's potential because that's what it is now let's think of your mind as the Digest system for reality itself if you eat too much information then you get anxious and if you don't eat enough information with your mind then you get bored so to maximize the enjoyment in our lives we want to maximize the time that we spend at our Edge we're not bored we're not anxious we're in the middle we're between the two everything

06:48becomes meaningful we're using what we're learning by building you win the game of Life by finding enjoyment not pleasure big difference in as much of your experience as possible your experience is the present moment quote winning the game of life isn't an outcome but a process you are either winning right now regardless of your emotional state or status and the social hierarchy or you are losing by projecting out of the present moment in bodybuilding there is an optimal environment for muscle building that's when you're training hard at your Edge you're pushing you're challenging

07:20yourself and then you eat enough nutrition to fuel that muscle growth you're not eating too much where you feel groggy and gross and Bloated and you just don't like how you look you're eating a little bit above maintenance and you're not eating too little unless you're in a planned cutting phase or else you'll feel just like you won't have as much energy you won't want to push towards your goals it's the same thing with information and learning and self-education and building if you aren't learning anything then you're not going to have the energy to go out and

07:50move and build and actually do things in the world and if you're learning too much but you're not building a business or you're not practicing or you're not using that information you're not training your mind by doing those things you're not giving the information or the mental nutrition somewhere to go you're not able to partition it into the muscle that you're trying to build into the skill that you're trying to build in life you must push into the unknown to fuel your mind expose yourself to new information and experience which is curiosity create something of value with

08:20that information to digest it which is Passion expand your mind when that experience becomes a part of you with practice which is Mastery and transcend that phase of life by passing down that value to others which is connection that's the recipe for the good life create expand and transcend with the experience you acquire by pursuing self-generated goals that lead you into the unknown so now we understand that winning the game is more of a process of actually utilizing information training and fueling that training now we need to understand how to create our own games

08:53because everything is a game Society is a game and you know how to win you retire you go to school you get a job you retire that's what you've been practicing your entire life unless you chose to break out of that path that's the default path you're on it unless you made the conscious choice to break out of it if you don't think you're on it and you haven't made the conscious choice to break out of it then you're just unaware that you're on that path

Creating Your Own Game (Or Reality)

09:14everyone has played a game that they are completely immersed in they forget everything else enter the Flow State and may not realize that they are in Peak experience the beautiful spot where new information is digested as reality flows through them when you start playing a game you go through a tutorial phase that introduces you to the rules goals and skills required to play the game well games are a hierarchy of goals you need to know how to win that's a goal and you need to understand how to progress to each sub goal in order to win and then you need to understand what

09:45character you need to have and the upgrades you need to make the skills you need to develop the traits you need to develop in order to reach each of those goals each goal demanding a higher level of skill from you because they present a higher level of Challenge and if if you're an absolute beginner you have no business trying to challenge a higher level player or just taking on that challenge the the the game is locked you're not able to accept that Quest because you're not even close to getting there yet you can't start a business because you haven't learned the skills

10:14that would allow you to understand how to start a business it's it's so simple you just need to learn and build according to your skill level so many people try to learn and build according to a millionaire skill level that's not going to happen you have to start where you are so to to get immersed in your game of life you must first create it that's what we're going to do next but I actually have a very good example here of I'm getting back on routine right now it's January 3rd that I'm filming this this morning was just so good I'm back on the 4-Hour workday philosophy even

10:46when I'm building so much like I feel like I shouldn't I feel like I should have to work longer than this but I'll I'll have to create another video on this but trying to jam everything into 4 hours in the morning is just one of the most fun games for me to play like I can get so much done if I just wake up early do what I have to do have my routine and do all the work the high lever work and then it just takes 4 hours to build anything that I want in the future and that feels so good having that feedback

How To Reset Your Life In 7 Days

11:15in playing that game now finally we are at the Practical Stuff how to reset your life in 7 days this is a process that I run through when life gets messy I've done it a few times before when I'm at that low point that I described at the beginning of the video this is something you should do when you're constantly thinking back to a time when life was better or when your routines fall apart and all of these tasks fill your day and you just feel like you're not getting anything done we're going to run through this process fast so I just pay attention write things down review it if

1) Take Note Of How You Feel

11:47you have to first thing is take note of how you feel pull out a notebook and write down exactly what you're doing on a daily basis how you feel morning afternoon and night take 10 minutes and get specific this this is important for identifying unconscious parasites time and energy suckers I do all of this in my new planner the fosi planner I've been using this system forever in my own life in a digital format I decided to turn it into a planner that is finally available for purchase so has daily Pages like this uh but it has a quarterly page that I have yet to map

12:21out for this year and monthly Pages everything we do is going to be in this planner but the quarterly is just map out your vision take notes create the game of your life the second thing is

2) Get Clear On What You Want

12:33that you need to get clear on what you want you have to realize what you don't want to figure out what you want even if it is destructive to realize what you don't want preventing yourself from making mistakes is the stupidest mistake of all now that's a tongue twister you have to realize what you don't want to figure out what you want to realize what you don't want so you have to observe what do I not want how do I not want to end up that's pretty easy negativity is everywhere I don't want end up broke I don't want to end up in that job I don't want to end up with I don't want to end

13:03up ugly I don't want to end up all these things okay use that as a reference point what's the opposite I don't want to end up ugly I'm going to go to the gym I go to the gym I realize okay I don't like this training I don't want to do this training program it's just not sustainable I'm going to try running and then that Sparks experimentation and then you it's a self-corrective compass you need to do what you think you want in order to understand what you don't want and you correct your decisions over time it is impossible to know with absolute certainty what is going to

13:30happen in the future this is why the masses flocked to secure jobs and belief systems it's an illusion of certainty to avoid struggle you can't skip making mistakes mistakes are your light in the dark so we need to start with a minimum viable Vision you can write this down in the planner you can write this down in a notebook what do you want your life to look like what do you want your mind to look like what do you want your body to look like what about your house what about your day what about your week write everything down start minimum viable Vision just write some things

13:58down come back to it tomorrow then the next day then the next day refine it doesn't have to be perfect from the start you just need a starting point to frame your decision- making so you can start that process of I don't want this I want this okay no I don't want this I want this until it becomes clear and clear you're never going to figure it out like ever you're never going to figure out I want this 100% maybe with a few things a few select things in life with everything everything that life's composed of absolutely no way now from this you break it down into goals you're

14:29not setting these goals people get so like caught up in this Dan like why are you setting all these goals I don't want to set 8 billion different goals to get to whatever I'm not even going to use them that's not what they're for okay because then those same people they come back to me and they're like Dan I'm lost I don't know what to do and it's like you don't have a goal to give you Direction on what you should do that's what the goals are for they're not for achieving the goals they're for clarity so you know what to learn you know what to study you know what skills to acquire

14:59it gives you Direction on from a macro level to a micro level so you can

3) Prioritize, Remove, & Restructure Your Days

15:04actually use it so the next thing is to prioritize remove and restructure your days the reason you aren't getting the results you used to is because you feel pressed for time you don't have the energy to get results and you stop doing the things that got results so look over your brain dump your vision everything that you've written above what can you change prioritize the things that will get results remove the things that snuck their way into your day and don't deserve to be there restructure the specific tasks and obligations to free up more time get the chaotic structure

15:34of your mind on paper and reorganize it

4) Cornerstone Habits Of The Good Life

15:37the fourth thing is understanding the Cornerstone habits of the good life you now have direction or goals and awareness on why you aren't achieving them now you need to cultivate two habits first is learning for novel information to fuel your skill acquisition and knowledge two is building to metabolize the information and build mental muscle start with 30 minutes each day 30 minutes of self-education in the morning 30 minutes of building a project that will contribute to your vision if you can't set aside 1 hour each morning when distractions are minimal to build your

16:09future go back to step three and get your priorities straight and if you want you can learn the high value skill of digital writing with my course 2hour writer and use the systems inside there to actually build as you're learning a digital career for yourself now step

5) Create A Week Long Plan

16:24five one of the most important things I've ever done and ever do in my life is creating a week long plan that I can iterate on so I can spot problems in my days because you're in this chaotic spot in life because of entropy the organization of your life the routines the habits everything else they tend toward disorder until unless you put energy into them to maintain them sometimes you're just ripped of your routines and that's fine New Year's holidays holidays [ __ ] me up like when like I'm not able to work and do things day after day when I stop for a week

16:55simply because that's just what you do you go see family you go do other things like I don't really binge or do all these other things it's just like I'm knocked out of my routine nobody's online nobody's doing business like I it's almost impossible for me to stay on my routine I'm just ripped from it so then I have to get back into it and so this these parts of your life where you're not on routine or you're not doing certain things your mind isn't structured and focused on what it's doing you pick up bad habits and you're much more likely to go through negative

17:25thought cycles and those habits are difficult to break so write out every single thing you are going to do for the next week this shouldn't sound crazy or difficult this is how you reduce the friction of making better decisions write out your morning routine your focused work routine other tasks and meetings and nightly routine you will have to experiment as you go I literally just did this today in my planner in the weekly section and if your routine doesn't flow that means there's a problem that means you can go back and change it to with what you wrote down

17:56this is why we write it down so you can go back and change it it week after week until it gets better and better and better that's how you refine a system that's how you make it second nature that's how you become a new person you create a system for Your Life by mapping out your week sticking to the plan identifying problems experimenting with Solutions and repeating the process until you reach your ideal future it gets more efficient with time if you make this mental housekeeping a regular practice before you know it new skills will become second nature and you will

18:23be baffled by how far you've come that's it for this video thank you for watching the fosi planner is now available you can order that cortex University is live if you're waiting for cortex the software there's another Link in the description so you can sign up for the wait list and just see what it's about the landing page is pretty sick if I do say so myself if you just want to see something pretty go look at that other courses stuff down there like subscribe whatever you got to do thanks for watching I love you guys bye