I stumbled upon an interview of Bezos on Youtube earlier today and I allowed myself to watch it.
During the interview he said something interesting:
It was a snippet from the actual interview. What he was doing was advising people to do a very unnatural thing: to think long term.
But it resonated with me. How we feel right now physically/mentally/emotionally and the things that are happening in our lives are results of some actions we took a week/a month/3 months ago.
As I was thinking about it and looking back to see how true it is in my life ( taking a much shorter timeframe), it connected to another rule I read in Fanatical Prospecting (by Jeb Blount):
Wow.
I have incorporated mobility training and focused more on my flexibility 2 weeks ago. And that is paying off this week. My workout are much better.
I have started waking up at 4 to work on my projects before going to work. Looking at it now, I have made more progress than I did in the few weeks before that.
I have started focusing on my relationships a bit more 2 weeks ago. And I can feel the results this week.
In my case, it seems that the action I am taking in a 7-day period pay off for the next 2 weeks (and counting).
I turn the table to you:
During the interview he said something interesting:
...when somebody congratulates me/Amazon for a good quarter... I say thank you. But what am thinking to myself - those quarterly results were actually pretty much fully baked about three years ago. And so today, I'm working on a quarter that is going to happen in 2020 [3 years from interview date]... Not next quarter. Next quarter for all practical purposes is done already. And it's probably been done for a couple of years. And if you start to think that way, it changes how you spend your time, how you plan where you put your energy
It was a snippet from the actual interview. What he was doing was advising people to do a very unnatural thing: to think long term.
But it resonated with me. How we feel right now physically/mentally/emotionally and the things that are happening in our lives are results of some actions we took a week/a month/3 months ago.
As I was thinking about it and looking back to see how true it is in my life ( taking a much shorter timeframe), it connected to another rule I read in Fanatical Prospecting (by Jeb Blount):
The 30-Day Rule: the prospecting you do in this 30-day period will pay off for the next 90 days
Wow.
I have incorporated mobility training and focused more on my flexibility 2 weeks ago. And that is paying off this week. My workout are much better.
I have started waking up at 4 to work on my projects before going to work. Looking at it now, I have made more progress than I did in the few weeks before that.
I have started focusing on my relationships a bit more 2 weeks ago. And I can feel the results this week.
In my case, it seems that the action I am taking in a 7-day period pay off for the next 2 weeks (and counting).
I turn the table to you:
- If there is something not going well right now, look back at your actions 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months... ago
- What were you doing?
- What can you change now and going forward?
- Look at your actions right now. A month from today:
- will you reap positive or negative benefits?
- What can you change, what can you do differently to get better results?
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