Part 5: The 3 Secrets To Radical Productivity
I was staring down the barrel of a gun:
I had over $100K in tax debt due, with no way to pay it.
Somehow, it sparked just the combination of terror and anger I needed, shocking me into action.
I wormed and scrabbled like a rat in a cage, clawing beneath the wire in animal frenzy.
What my friends and family thought of me… whether or not my course of action was "really me"… Agonizing over what my "true calling" was…
All that stuff fell away.
It reminds me now of those near-death experiences you hear about, where people in a coma come back from the edge with rare, otherwise-inaccessible knowledge.
The extremity of my situation drove me to develop, by instinct, a system of execution that was profoundly simple, direct, and EFFECTIVE.
There are plenty of "good systems" out there, but "good" didn't work for me: apparently, I needed a system as extreme as I was.
Luckily, at the eleventh hour… I found it.
Here are the three organizing principles my execution system's built on:
1. Radical simplicity
I took the core productivity habits PROVEN to work and stripped out everything else… cutting all the psycho-babble and bloat that only muddies the waters and causes you to double-guess yourself.
2. The right relationship to pain
There is NO system that can spare you the pain inherent in bold execution. That being said, you can limit and contain that pain by corralling it into the right combinations and sequences, where every pain is offset by a compensating pleasure.
3. Consideration of all upstream and downstream effects
Your execution system is only as effective as it is congruent with your life as a whole. You cannot execute in a vacuum. My system is, of necessity, woven through your ENTIRE life, making it incredibly adaptable, durable, and relevant.
Thanks to this system, I was able to quickly pay off the debt and get the Canada Revenue Agency off my back with just 90 minutes of work a day (I was working full time in my startup at the time, so that's all I had).
I then went on to use that same system to grow my main business from a fledgling startup into an Inc. 500 company in five years…
…WITHOUT burning the candle at both ends, 80-hour work-weeks, or any of that other "go hard or go home" nonsense.
In other words, I was still the same lazy, procrastinating dreamer I was before… it's just I had a system that sucked production out of me, despite myself… a crutch that let the cripple walk free.
If you'd like to experience the power of this system in YOUR life…
If you're ready to step up to a HIGHER LEVEL OF OWNERSHIP…
If you want to be the man who FINISHES WHAT HE STARTS (and reaps the rewards that follow)…
Then I have two options for you:
Option 1: print out these pages and run with what I've shared so far, focusing especially on the Daily Action Plan. The free material I've shared in this series is more than enough to get you started and on your way.
Option 2: If you're ready to go for the jugular… if you want to go further, faster… if you're ready to get up to your neck in carcass…
…then go to the next page to see just how far the rabbit hole goes:
