Total Living, The Revolutionary Lifestyle For Today’s Age And How To Implement It (Thread)
The revolutionary lifestyle for thriving in today’s world:
Total Living
Read below to find out how Total Living will give you more
- Mental clarity
- Creativity
- Happiness
- Relief
- Productivity
- Accomplishments
And the 5 steps to becoming a total life enjoyer 👇
First, what is total living really?
A collection of best practices to enable your best self
You will always feel
- Inner peace free from thoughts
- Trust that whatever happens will fuel you to greatness
- Accelerating speed and control of your results
How to get started:
Step 1: Total Presence
The mental state behind flow, happiness, meaning, charisma & peace
Everything is silent within you. You are totally connected with your surroundings
The other aspect is daydreaming and creativity, in full relaxation
How to access this state of mind:
To feel stillness and flow, do one of the 4 things:
- Breathe (longer exhales if anxious)
- Stare at one particular place
- Close your eyes and listen
- Feel your body sensations
Immediately, you will be present
To daydream, do nothing and it will happen by itself
Step 2: Personal Antifragility
The unstoppable mindset that transforms
- Obstacles to opportunities
- Negative to positive
- Setbacks to catapults
To instill this mindset, learn the 9 core principles below. Repeat these when you are unhappy
Step 3: Daily awareness
Gain control of your life by offloading your commitments, desires and ideas to your
- Calendar
- Task Manager
- Note-taking tool(s)
Using the barbell system, it is done superfast. No need for weekly reviews.
Learn more here: https://thetotalliving.com/2022/02/barbell-the-only-productivity-system-you-need-to-thrive-in-an-unpredictable-world/
Step 4: Free up time & energy
Thanks to the 80/20-rule, only a tiny fraction of what you do produces almost all of your results
You want to eliminate the other commitments and only focus on the vital few
To achieve this, ask the following 3 questions:
- What is the 20% producing my intended results, impact and enjoyment?
- What is the 20% responsible for most of my stress and unhappiness?
- What is the one thing I can do, such as by doing it, everything else will become easier or unnecessary?
Here is what you can expect:
You will experience more relief when more is removed from your plate.
It feels like paying off debt, with increased positive repercussions.
Spend the newly found time relaxing to get energy back.
Now you are ready for the last step, start making impact:
Step 5: Create more and more impact and enjoyment
You need leverage for infinite results with minimum action from you
The 7 types of leverage are
- Labor
- Technology
- Media (text, videos)
- Capital
- Knowledge
- Reputation
- Rules
Gain leverage in 3 stages:
Stage 1: Explore
In the beginning, you do not know what you are doing, and that’s ok!
Poke around, try things out, move forward and listen to feedback.
Failures and errors are your best friends here since they tell you what does not work
Practice in public
Stage 2: Optimize
Once you know how to perform a certain activity reasonably well, you want to eliminate the waste
Ask yourself the following:
- Is this task and outcome important at all?
- How can I get rid of as many steps as possible?
- What hinders me from going faster?
Stage 3: Delegate
The results will be done without your involvement, by systems (automation) and/or people (hiring/outsourcing)
Infinite scale
Then continue this cycle of explore — optimize — delegate to increase your leverage, impact & success
All successful people do this
Here are the five steps of total living summarized:
1/ Become totally present
2/ Have the unstoppable mindset
3/ Get control of your days
4/ Free up time and energy
5/ Build more leverage and impact
Once you implemented 1–3 and continuously do 4–5, you are a total life enjoyer!
Thanks for reading!
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And if you want more guidance on step 3 (the Barbell System), I have written a 59-page e-book about it
You will know how to
- Alternate between structure & playfulness
- Set up your tools for max efficiency
- Instill the journaling habit
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