Step 24 - Gandhi’s Funeral, Stephen Covey’s Wars, & Flurries Of Activity
This Lesson helps you define your end goal, because having a clearly defined war-winning endgame goal in general and also in the four pillars of the good life, helps us to move towards the right things, instead of moving towards the wrong things.
Joe Salatin said, that if we don't know what the endgame is, and we don't know what we are working towards, we run the risk of becoming good at the bad thing.
Most people today are always busy doing stuff, always having flurries of activities.
If we don't know what the endgame is and we don't know what we are working towards, we run the risk of becoming good at the bad thing.
If we want it or not, our brain is continuously and subconsciously assessing our situation and doing math on the question of how good of a life we are living.
Our brain adds up the sum of all accomplishments and the earned respect of our peers. And if our brain assesses that we are not doing well, it manifests in our conscious life as functional depression. We can't just be happy, but we can move towards something.
The best way to consciously assess our life is to ask the question: "When I die, how many people will show up on my funeral?" And each year we have to look at our life and see if we move up on this scale.
Defining a war-winning endgame goal helps us moving toward that goal.
Unfortunately we are early conditioned to be awarded for just flurries of activities, where the general concept is to just "do stuff", which represents the battle mentality. The second we get paid by someone in exchange for our time (for example per hour), we have the incentive to stretch out those hours. When we get paid for hours, we don't need to really rush.
More importantly we need to think about what we need to accomplish and then we don't have to worry about the activity, if we think with the end in mind (the funeral test).
Don't commit to stuff, that you can't do. And if you commit, you have to do it.
There are four wars that we need to win:
Health, define an end-goal for your body. How do you want to look like?
Have a body trained in the martial arts of boxing. With endurance and power.
Wealth, reach at least the $80.000 to $100.000 for financial independence. Once you've reached them, there is also prosperity and wealth impact to reach.
Social, have good family, friends and romantic relationships. (Tai has an excel spreadsheet for his 150 people). Have those relationships meaningful.
Happiness, the fulfillment for pint up desires. Playing our part in the theater of life.
If you win all four wars, you will win the funeral test.
The men who can manage men, manage the men who can only manage things. But the men who manage money, manage all. See yourself more valuable than money and invest in yourself.
Whatever big decision we have to take, should be answered with the endgame question in mind.
Will it bring us closer to our defined war-winning endgame of Health, Wealth, Love and Happiness and ultimately to our funeral test?
Let's make sure we define, what our end-goal in those 4 pillars of the good life. People who win the funeral test, have just gone straight to their goal. Directly. If our goal is definite, you can reach it.
What do you want your funeral to look like and what do you want people to say about you?
Questions
For you who is the epitome of someone who has passed the funeral test?
Wladimir Putin. Albert Einstein. Jerry Whinetraub.
Do you have a clear end game war winning concept for your life?
Not yet. I'll make one. When would I say, I won the war in life in general.
What does your winning the war in the four pillars of life look like?
Endgame in: a. Health – Having a body as a boxer. b. Wealth – Breaking the $50 Million barrier in wealth. c. Love – Having 150 meaningful relationships and at least 15 friends who can coun’t on me and who I can count on. d. Fulfillment – Being happy when I die.
What is your weakest pillar that you create flurries of activity for?
Wealth. Working all the time 100 hours a week, but what is the money in your bank account? Work ON the business NOT IN it.