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Predictor

Execution Vs The Odds

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I've learned an important lesson over the years but it really started to hit home the last few weeks. That lesson is that "doing" or "executing" or whatever you want to call it: action often produces the greatest benefit. The antagonist to such a powerful momentum of a force would be procrastination, over analysis, inaction, and poor implementation.

 

I'll take just 2 examples. I had known about the benefits of alternate or intermittent fasting for over 10 years. I was very knowledgeable on the subject and had found it improved the health of my pet's lives tremendously. Yet, I had never did it myself. This year I watched a 50 minute clip on youtube and just did it, and have lost over 2 and 1/2 pants sizes so far. I shared the information with my mom and she's seen tremendous results. Yet, how many thousands of people watched the same clip and experienced no change at all? I suspect the majority of them because they didn't take any action.

 

I started reading the 4 Hour Work Week last week. I haven't read it all. But, I took just 1 principle in the book the 80 vs 20 principle and started to apply it and execute on that one idea as best I could. I've seen tremendous benefits. And, I think how about how just knowing about such a principle is hugely underwhelming. I even knew about the concept previously and implemented.. Before I knew of it as focusing on high return vs low return activities. The improvements I've seen are entirely due to my better execution. Instead of focusing on "higher return" vs "lower return" activities, I'm now just focusing on the highest returning activities.

 

Take a single principle or lesson from any self-help book, trading book, or health book and just execute it on as best as possible for a few weeks, and I'm going to dare say that you'll see greater results then you'd get from reading 3 similar --even better-- books and the knowledge contained within them.

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Curtis

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