Context
The process of educating a simple ai chat is useful both for the ai but also useful to me.
When you have to tell the ai all the context required to do the job, it forces you to be clear on what’s required and it also forces you to be clear on your outcome.
It’s funny, because if you know what you want to achieve and whats required to get there- you’re 80% of the way there.
Teaching ai is a bit like teaching ourselves.
You get what you see every day
They say you have to look at your goals everyday.
Why?
It’s so simple it seems silly. You actually just need to remember where you’re going.
Don’t get stressed by the how, just look and remember what you want.
You’d be surprised how easy it is to forget goals- and if you forget them you can also forget about ever attainting them
It’s amazing how just by seeing and remembering what you want helps the universe conspire for you to achieve it.
Hidden technology
More people should be using claude code, right?
It feels a bit like a well kept secret at the moment, wow you gonna use it everyone.
Stressor
I made a tiny breakthrough today.
Here I was thinking that pushing through is a what a resilient person does. Turns out it’s what a ‘stressor’ does.
Turns out there are three types of people:
The dabbler is someone who dabbles in things but it doesn’t last. They’ll do it something while feels good then stop the minute it gets hard.
The stressor is someone who stresses as they push through to achieve what they want. They try and get things perfect and that actually causes resistance and stunts their growth.
The master is someone who practices the fundamentals every day. They aren’t afraid of taking a few steps back to take more steps forward. They also understand that success is a long game and it’s rare to see progress up close.
You don’t get any points for stressing your way through. Sure, it feels like you’re working really hard, but feeling like your working isn’t the same as being effecting.
I know which of the three I’d like to be.
No regrets
I think this is a good goal. Sometimes when I hear people say “no regrets”, it’s a bit like they are being careless or maybe even reckless.
“No regrets” for me is about never coming out of a situation or interaction with a regret.
I never want to look back on how I was and see someone who is unkind, unjust or short tempered.
And those moments come up, for sure. You’re a bit tired or at the end of your tether.
This frame helps a lot: “will I regret it later if I act in this way?”
If you can do that over and over again, you’ll have a regret free life.
And that’s a pretty great outcome.
“No regrets”
What you can
Some days you knock it out of the park
and some days you just do what you can.
Those days count the most, by the way.
Two options
In the pursuit of something you want to do or make happen, there are two options that might run through your mind:
- The thing goes really well! Perfectly, in fact. You exceed all your ecpectations and you enjoy the process.
- It goes terribly, terribly wrong.
I don’t know about you, but my brain LOVES to picture option 2. But just like when you buy a new shirt and suddenly see it everywhere, you tend to get what you focus on.
Let’s spend no energy on option 2.
Let’s spend it all on option 1, shall we?
The one thing
It’s really easy to list all the things you could do that would move the needle on your goals.
It’s a whole other skill to pick the one thing that you will do.
Forget the 10 outcomes for the day, what is the ONE THING that will make this day count?
Pour all your energy into that today.
Then do it again tomorrow.
You’ll probably get more done over the next ten days than if you tried to squeeze them all in.
Go slow to go fast.
Want to follow through?
Connect it to your highest values.
Write a paragraph about how the action you want to take links directly to the things you care about most in life.
Then you won’t have to brute force your way through, you’ll be pulled along effortlessly.
Chunking
I put together an Ikea couch today.
It made me feel a bit like a genius.
It looked really REALLY complex. But the instructions broke it down chunk by chunk.
When we do the first thing, then the next thing and then the thing after (without rushing ahead)
I think anything is possible.