How to Do Everything at Once - A Quick Guide

[YS.]

Hey guys, this was a massive sticking point of mine for a long time. Let me share the best methodology I've figured out to have the wheels rolling.

I've read every single book and bought every single course about this. Time management. Life management. Spinning plates. ALL OF IT.

Here's a very basic and quick breakdown that will change your life.

1. Pick something you wanna crush.
2. Research, learn everything. Keep this period short. Find a guru. Find someone that fits you and you see yourself doing/following. THEN FULLY BUY-IN. FULLY. See it through.
3. All in. Execute to the T. Could take months. I'd say at least 3 months of full immersion. You dealing with this. Could take 12 months also. Depends on what you're trying to do and at what level. If you really hit it hard I'd guess in 3-6 months you would get a basic competency level.
4. Decide. If you want to continue growing here or want to integrate something else.
   1. If you want to continue, continue until you got to the level you desire.
   2. If you want to move onto something else, stabilize. Get the core activities that you need to do that require ZERO (or almost zero) brainpower, variety or anything else. Put it in complete autopilot.

With the skillset in autopilot... Pick something you wanna crush...

...

An example:

1. I wanted to get jacked again.
2. Researched everything to find sth that fits me. Find a lane I could follow.
3. Trying to execute. Going to the gym. Trying to focus fully on the movements. None of this is internalized or competent yet so I'm using a lot of brainpower, thinking, forceful movements, willpower, etc.
4. Crush it for a few months. Lost like 10-15 kilos. I got so locked into the program that I know what to do, all the movements are internalized now and I don't need to spend 5 minutes to hype myself up for something. My muscle memory knows what to do, my muscles are strong enough to carry it out, my mind/mentality is trained/experienced enough to not feel afraid of it or have any unknown feelings.
5. Great, I spend a few months using brainpower, willpower, effort and force. Locked it in. Decided that my level and the level I was sustaining this was enough for my goals. Locked that shit in into my life and put it into autopilot. Now I'm doing the same thing but everything is automatic and %0 of my focus is on it.
6. Let's find something else to get better...

Hope you guys get the point. Learn, go all out, fully execute, get to the baseline level, decide if you want to level it up or stabilize it and put it into autopilot. Then just put it in autopilot and focus on something else.

People think you're this absolute superhero that can do 4-5 completely unrelated things at once but don't realize almost everything is locked in, internalized and in autopilot and you're just focusing on this tiny business thing.

Addendum:
You can then go back and increase your skillset at a thing you put into autopilot as time goes by. Cycling between conscious effort & autopilot periods. I put my business to autopilot for a long time until 1.5 years ago. Then started going hard again. The problems arise when you drop doing something completely instead of putting it into autopilot or have a solid get back date & plan.

 

[DoWhatWorks]

Super solid post man - thanks for sharing.

 

[Toby2030]

https://www.amazon.com/Mastery-Robert-Greene/dp/014312417X helped me a lot

 

[Train]

Nice post! I've been doing something similar to good results.

I determine 1-2 actions I want to turn into habits. Then I do a little of each everyday. Not enough to fatigue me. And not enough to dread doing it.

Then I increase the duration gradually. Eventually they go on autopilot.

What was key is focus like you imply here. Instead of doing 10 habits at once and being overwhelmed. Start with 1. Master it. Then add another or 2. Master these. And so on.

I keep track in an app. The thought of losing a streak motivates me. And it's nice to see my progress.

This is how I am able to do daily 1-hour meditations (only 7% or less misses in over a year) and now adding daily book-reading and comedy practice.

My sticking point was paralysis by abundance of habits (meditation, reading, working out, etc.). I psyched myself out before doing anything. Eating the elephant one bite at a time can be great in this case.

The approach I take is mentioned in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Good book with practical info. A good point in the book is: if you can't take a small step routinely, you won't be able to take the bigger steps (your goal) routinely either. Sounds obvious, but I think people get too overzealous about goals and need that reminder to pace themselves.

 

[Beam]

I keep track in an app. The thought of losing a streak motivates me. And it's nice to see my progress.

Which app do you use?

 

[Toby2030]

I use planning a lot. I have set goals for the next 3, 6, 12 months, up until 10 years.

Every Sunday night I schedule my week with the activities I have to do to get closer to my goals. Then every single night I evaluate my day.

Add mentors on the different areas you want to improve on top, and you actually get more time during your day because you are very effective + you improve much faster.

I use Google calender @Mooser, but their might be even smarter apps. I just like to keep it simple.

 

[YS.]

Nice post! I've been doing something similar to good results.

I determine 1-2 actions I want to turn into habits. Then I do a little of each everyday. Not enough to fatigue me. And not enough to dread doing it.

Then I increase the duration gradually. Eventually they go on autopilot.

What was key is focus like you imply here. Instead of doing 10 habits at once and being overwhelmed. Start with 1. Master it. Then add another or 2. Master these. And so on.

I keep track in an app. The thought of losing a streak motivates me. And it's nice to see my progress.

This is how I am able to do daily 1-hour meditations (only 7% or less misses in over a year) and now adding daily book-reading and comedy practice.

My sticking point was paralysis by abundance of habits (meditation, reading, working out, etc.). I psyched myself out before doing anything. Eating the elephant one bite at a time can be great in this case.

The approach I take is mentioned in the book Atomic Habits by James Clear. Good book with practical info. A good point in the book is: if you can't take a small step routinely, you won't be able to take the bigger steps (your goal) routinely either. Sounds obvious, but I think people get too overzealous about goals and need that reminder to pace themselves.

Cool post buddy. I like habit stacking and building habits up. The Atomic Habits is a great book for everything habit related that touches on what you're saying and also Eben Pagan (yes, that guy) has an incredible product called Wake Up Productive that also teaches exactly what you're saying. Starting small. Locking in and building up.

But habits are more of a micro concept. Mine was more of macro life values that are completely separate activities that can be even at odds with each other rather than mere daily habits.

"How could you earn that much money and work 10+ hours like that and still go out with us?" Well... I'm not doing anything. I have a secretary, all the client stuff is locked in. I just show up and do my thing. 100% autopilot. I didn't go out a single fucking time when I was building these systems up but people don't see that. On another scenario "How can you focus on business like crazy and still have mental bandwith to go out?" Well... I don't have mental bandwith to go out. I'm running on complete autopilot. I'm not working on anything with game, or not trying to add anything or even go to different locations. Nothing is new. Just doing the locked-in patterns. If I'm even remotely working on something it's just so tiny and I know it will take me a while to get there because it's not my priority and has 5-10% allocated brain space MAX. I don't build 2 things at a high level together at the same time.

All I've seen from people is, they DROP their incredible activities and skills when they go into something that requires 100% of their mental focus. They don't lock these things in or put then in autopilot. They don't understand this methodology and they suffer. Me in the past shamefully included.

As I've said in the beginning of the post, this shit will save your life.

 

[Train]

Ah I see, so it's like periodization that athletes use. I.e. improving skills in off-season and maintaining them during the season. Which gives the appearance of doing everything 100% but really you built each area one at a time. You just hold previous areas instead of dropping them completely.

That's a cool concept. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to take another look at my master schedule and see how I can apply this.

@Mooser, I use "Goal Tracker & Habit List & Workout Calendar" by Intrasoft. It's simple but effective.

 

[YS.]

Ah I see, so it's like periodization that athletes use. I.e. improving skills in off-season and maintaining them during the season. Which gives the appearance of doing everything 100% but really you built each area one at a time. You just hold previous areas instead of dropping them completely.

That's a cool concept. Thanks for sharing! I'm going to take another look at my master schedule and see how I can apply this.

@Mooser, I use "Goal Tracker & Habit List & Workout Calendar" by Intrasoft. It's simple but effective.

Yeah... Imagine a football player working out like crazy in the offseason but come regular season, he doesn't quit cold turkey. He switches his lifting to 2x a week instead of 5-7x a week. They lock in the core activity and focus on doing something else. Come off-season time again, back to full immersion.

You can read more about players training regiments from the Tim Glover's great book Relentless and I also think Pavel Tsatsouline is an incredible trainer, in his books he teaches a lot about how he balances immersion & maintenance with his athletes.