10 Things to do going into 2024:|Choose your enemies wisely

1. Manage which friends, co-workers & relatives influences you both negatively and positively

Eliminate those who suck your energy and increase time with those who inspire and challenge you.

Don’t confuse someone being negative as challenging you.

Challenging you properly is someone who is engaged and in pursuit of their dreams.

2. Choose which circles you’d like to be in

Make a list of 10 names you’d like to be in their circle.

Then ask yourself the question, why they would want you in their circle.

If you don’t have a strong argument for it yet, make your case with results in 2024.

There are levels to circles so manage expectations of the circles you want to be a part of up front.

Some may take a DM or 2.

Some may take a year.

Some may take a decade.

3. Choose to recreate yourself.

One of the most annoying aspects of recreating yourself is accepting the fact that the CURRENT YOU isn’t good enough for the next level.

Which issues kept reappearing in 2023 that needs to be addressed.

Excuses?

Same approach to conflicts?

Over reaction?

Under reaction?

Blame?

Skill set?

Then create a step by step plan to how you plan on recreating yourself.

4. Be overly prepared up front for 2024

Anticipation has been and will continue to be a very valuable resource in today’s economy.

Those who anticipate both opportunities and crisis for 2024 Will succeed and those who won’t will get crushed.

This is a terrible season to be in the winging business.

5. Drop 2 things you eat that is killing you.

Back in July of 2019 I was hosting an event at Breakers hotel.

During lunch with my CIO (David) & CFO (Ian) at the time, I noticed Ian who’s in incredible shape didn’t drink soda instead he drank water.

I asked if he drinks soda, he said he hasn’t for 7 years.

I said, I’ll take up that challenge to see if I can do it for a week.

It’s not been almost 4 1/2 years.

I’m 20 pounds lighter and my wait has lost 4 inches.

Whether it’s cigarettes, vaping, candy, chocolate, sweets, soda, bread or whatever your weakness is, drop a thing or two that you know it’s not good for you.

6. Work on your faith

In a time where faith is boring and not cool, I recommend working on this are.

People are afraid and embarrassed to discuss their faith.

Working on your Faith, whatever it may be gives you a few great qualities to win in life.

– Discipline

– Confidence

– Decreases your chances of making dumb decisions

– Helps you think bigger knowing no matter how bad things may be, future looks bright

– You become a better leader

7. Create a better process and standard for making better decisions.

This will take time and it’s not easy.

The challenge of making good decisions logically while emotions are high is tough.

Some jump to conclusions

Some run away from problems

Some see everyone as an enemy

Some are unreasonable to work with

Regardless of what it may be this will take an investment of time and resources to get better at.

But this one skill set of better decision making will help every aspect of your life.

Relationships

Parenting

Finance

Health

And the list goes on

8. Spend at least a full day writing out your business and life plan for 2024

This has been a life changing exercise for me the last 23 years.

I use to suck at it and wing it until one year I wrote a business plan that got me emotional and fired up.

I couldn’t read it enough times.

I was obsessed.

A great business plan has to have both an emotional and a logical side to it.

There are 12 building blocks to writing a real effective business plan.

If done right, no one will recognize you going into 2024.

9. Choose your enemies wisely

Everyone has enemies.

Some are public

Some are private

Whether you know it or not, even you’re on people’s list of enemies.

If you’re not, that means you’re living a small life not working on anything big

Think about who has the most enemies in business? Probably @musk

Why?

How many people are driving different billion dollar companies and coving their opinion publically that could cost him money.

The challenge with enemies are most people choose small enemies that don’t bring out the best in them.

80% of people think their enemy is an opposing sports team they hate. Even though they don’t even play for that team.

What a way to waste the energy a REAL enemy can do to your life.

I can go on and on but if you really want to get deeper on the topic of choosing your enemies and making 2024 a special year for you, do yourself a favor and order the book “Choose Your Enemies Wisely”.

It comes out next week on Dec 5th

10. FUTURE LOOKS BRIGHT.