How To Drastically Upgrade Yourself Every 90 Days

Reduce your commitment to your past self

Most people underestimate what they can achieve in the long run.

In the words of Bill Gates, “People overestimate what they can achieve in a year and underestimate what they can achieve in ten years.”

All he was getting at was people are too oriented toward the short-term.

We can swap out the durations, and you’ll still get the same message. For example, “People overestimate what they can achieve in a week and underestimate what they can achieve in a month.”

This information is your unfair advantage.

People who underestimate what they can achieve in the long run don’t try to achieve it.

Their mind is too constrained by their current affairs. They’ve imposed limitations on themselves based on their immediate reality.

If you can approach your weeks with your months in mind, and your months with your years in mind, and your years with your decades in mind, it’s possible to do unbelievable things.

This is what Steve Jobs meant when he said, “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”

In this story, we’re starting from one of the shortest scopes — weeks to months.

Here’s how you significantly transform yourself every 90 days…

#1 Seek feedback & recognize your changes

“All progress starts by telling the truth.” — Dan Sullivan

Man, I hated Mondays as a Footballer…

That was video analysis day.

We’d stay behind after training for an extra hour and a half to watch the game we played on the weekend.

The whole purpose was to review things we did right and what we did wrong.

I hated it cos I just wanted to play football.

This was a mistake.

To make significant progress, you must have a keen desire for feedback.

For example, there was a time when my coach was on me for around two weeks cos I didn’t open up my hips well when receiving the ball — this meant I constantly had one side of the pitch shut off relative to where I was.

He would always bring up this problem on video day…

But in one game, I opened up and sprayed a beautiful pass across the pitch that created a goal-scoring opportunity.

He stopped the video…

“THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT KP!”

After that day, I felt more inclined to continue in that light. I regularly did drills focused on opening up my hips and passing the ball out the other side.

A new player was born.

There’s two lessons in this story…

The first is if you want to make significant progress, you have to be willing to be honest with yourself.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

This is why I journal daily and reflect on what I wrote weekly.

I’m trying to find evidence of my shortcomings (i.e., limiting beliefs) so they can be challenged.

As you exercise your ability to tell the truth about yourself, you’ll be in a better position to make change.

The second lesson is to recognize your transformation at regular intervals.

My manager was the catalyst for me…

If he never acknowledged the time I opened my hips, I wouldn’t have continued doing it.

When you realize you’re not the same person you were each week or each day, you’re more inclined to desire greater development.

You want to continue in the direction of continual growth.

#2 Strip off your old self

When Michaelangelo was asked how he made The David, he responded, “It’s easy. You just chip away the stone that doesn’t look like David.”

In this context, the stone that doesn’t look like David is the hidden commitments that used to matter but aren’t relevant to where you wanna go.

For example, let’s say you’re goal is to become a multimillionaire…

You acknowledge the fastest path to your goal is to become an entrepreneur; thus, you make it your goal to leave your full-time job in 3 months and become self-employed.

Weeding out your past self means recognizing all the things you’re doing that obstruct this objective and cutting them out, such as:

• Partying every weekend → Uses up money you could put toward your 3–12 month emergency fund for when you quit.
• Binging your favorite series → Uses up time you could be using to learn new skills and attract customers.

The more you cut out, the more resources you have to orient yourself towards the objective you wish to achieve.

… But weeding yourself requires you to pass through all three concepts of time available to mankind — past, present, and future.

The first vantage point is the future you want in three months.

You must have a clear desired outcome you wish to achieve in the next three months.

This is the guide to determining what activities deserve priority.

The next time zone you go through is the past.

Robin Sharma said, “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons,” but “Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned,” according to Frank Sonnenberg.

Your past must be transformed into lessons, and you must learn from them.

This isn’t always about things you’ve done — it could be a belief.

Robert Keagan, an American developmental psychologist, published a book titled “Immunity To Change.”

The general gist of the book is that it doesn’t matter if you have goals because you have immunity to them.

The same way your body fights off illnesses is the same way it fights off your desired future.

You won’t achieve your goals until you can identify the thing blocking you from making progress…

That thing is your past self.

Your past self encompasses your old belief systems and worldview.

Benjamin Hardy refers to these things as your hidden commitments.

They must be removed!

Your present self has the easiest task of all…

After learning the mistakes you’ve made in the past based on what you want in the future, your present self just has to stop doing the thing hindering you.

“Chip away at the stone that’s not the David.”

The more frequently you do this, the more unrecognizable you’ll be in 90 days.

Reduce your commitment to your past self!

#3 Aim for 10x more than you think you can achieve

As you weed out the remnants of your past self, you free up the resources to pursue what you want.

The secret to making a drastic transformation every 90 days is no real secret…

Focus on the highest-value tasks!

What can you do today that will have the most impact tomorrow?

You don’t have to do many things to have a massive transformation in three months.

Make your life simple.

Quality over quantity.

The value of what you do should have 10x more impact.

This can only happen when you’re focused on what actually matters.

For example, if your objective is to earn $10,000 a month, it doesn’t make sense to be focused on how pretty your branding is…

Your focus should be on selling your product or service.

This may mean reaching out to 10,000 people per month, which is 2880 people a week or 412 people a day.

It may also mean creating tons of content to build your audience of buyers and establishing yourself as an authority so people are more inclined to buy when you make them an irresistible offer.

What you put your attention on expands.

The quality of attention you apply to your most important task and the amount of impact it has will determine the quality of your results and transformation.

Going deep on the things that matter accelerates your progress in the direction you want to go.

If the objective is big, you’ll be forced to dial in on the most important tasks that produce more impactful results.

Final thoughts

Making significant changes every three months is possible if you know how to.

Most people don’t, so they don’t bother.

If you:

#1 Seek feedback & recognize your changes #2 Strip off your old self #3 Aim for 10x more than you think you can achieve

You’ll be unrecognizable in three months.

Constantly repeating this process every 90 days is how you make extremely significant gains every year.

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