'tis the damn season
Merry Christmas!
We don’t have the chutzpah to send a Christmas email with a Taylor Swift subject line to our greater Bullpen email list, so I had to give it a shot here.
This newsletter is going to be very short -
My favorite thing about the holidays? It’s easy to get quiet.
I like to put my phone down, close my laptop, pick up a pen, and do the Tim Ferris past year review:
Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE.
Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week.
For each week, jot down on the pad any people or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns.
Once you’ve gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask, “What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks?”
Based on the answers, take your “positive” leaders and schedule more of them in the new year. Get them on the calendar now! Book things with friends and prepay for activities/events/commitments that you know work. It’s not real until it’s in the calendar. That’s step one. Step two is to take your “negative” leaders, put “NOT-TO-DO LIST” at the top, and put them somewhere you can see them each morning for the first few weeks of 2023. These are the people and things you *know* make you miserable, so don’t put them on your calendar out of obligation, guilt, FOMO, or other nonsense.
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That’s all for this week (as I said - short and sweet)! Thank you for following along this year. Take some days to rest, and let’s get ready to run in January.
✌️📤
Tyler
Founder @ Bullpen