Weekly Audio Journal by Kevin Ly Social

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have a piece from Chris Hladczuk. How Jeff Bezos from Amazon makes decisions. Is it a one-way or two-way door? One way means you can't reverse, so make them slowly and carefully. Two way means reversible, so make them fast. A lot of people who experience decision fatigue or paralysis by analysis it's because they're using the slow one way...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I am quoting Sahil Bloom, "When you think something nice about someone let them know. It's a shame that we often wait until a person's funeral to say all of the nice things we thought about them. The next time you have a positive thought about someone, tell them right then." I'd like to propose a challenge for the next week. For three days,...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I would like to share this snippet from the Almanac of Naval Ravikant. Every desire is a chosen unhappiness. Looking outside yourself for anything is the fundamental delusion. Not to say you shouldn't do things on the outside. You absolutely should. You're a living creature. There are things you do, you locally reverse entropy. That's why yo...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I'd like to share a part of a Twitter storm by David Morris. I'm grateful for you. A friend starts his day by writing five things he's grateful for about his wife. Then shares one with her. It's been transformational. Annoyance has disappeared. Problems feel smaller. Gratitude is undefeated. Tell your spouse you appreciate them. Over the p...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share with you an exercise I often do, I call it future projecting. At times I get offered shiny objects and these are opportunities that present themselves. One way I use to weigh out which direction to go or whether I should take it up is thinking about the end goal. If I forward and future project what the end result may be I...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. "You cannot see your reflection in boiling water. Similarly, you cannot see truth in a state of anger." For myself when events arise that start to irritate me or make me angry. First I try to keep quiet, it's not always the best solution but for me, it keeps me from reacting. And by keeping quiet I can look inside and slowly reflect, then it come...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to read a post from Andrew Huberman. Do you feel your eyes are tired? Experiencing headaches? Or have an eyebag sag. Ask yourself how much of your waking time each day is spent looking at things further than three meters away? Chances are you are forcing your visual system, eye and face muscles to fatigue by close viewing. Look int...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote by Naval Ravikant, "Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true." Part of the process to do this is to find and build specific knowledge. Specific knowledge cannot be taught, but it can be learned. When he talks about specific knowledge, he means to figure out what yo...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a segment from a Twitter storm from Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Effort vs Joy. It's not about how much money you spend but the trade off with effort. Earning giant mansions, keeping multiple residences or owning a private jet. It requires maintenance and manpower... but is it really worth all the effort and does it actually b...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have a snippet from Chip Conley's book, Peak. Leaders are the emotional thermostats of those they lead. The moment you truly own that sentence, you realise that you're a role model. Stop calling yourself a leader and start calling yourself a role model. Truly try this for a week, ask your role model team not your leadership team, what it f...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio channel. Last night I was going through some YouTube videos and I stumbled across a video with Lex Fridman and Elon Musk. It was a piece on advice to young people and essentially it was to be useful. This is very simple advice but it is very difficult to do. I started to reflect on my own activities, my own work, my own projects. What impact am I actually...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to bring up the concept of scorecards. If you've worked in a large company, you've most likely been given KPI's and you have these targets that you need to reach. Now the question is how about your personal scorecard? What is your scorecard in life? What do you measure on a weekly basis? Now if it's related to the amount of material...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have something shared by Dharmesh Shah, he's the co-founder of HubSpot. Through one of his interviews, he shares a mental model about the interconnecting circles of skills. He begins with listing your top skills, what are you good at? What are you passionate about? And if you were to narrow a few down and combine some of those top skills....

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share two parts from Kevin Kelly. Habit is far more dependable than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don't focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person who never misses a workout. I love this so much, I think sitting around waiting for inspiration to strike is essentially procrastination. If you c...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal Today I'd like to talk about growth, " If you become satisfied, growth stops." To continue on with this, I wanted to share some laws written by Dan Sullivan and Catherine Nomura from the book 10 laws of lifetime growth. Some of my favourites are: Always make your questions bigger than your answers. All growth lies in the territory of the unknown. W...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have an exercise for entrepreneurs. Review over the last 12 months your top five biggest paying cheques. Now I want you to then average the amount to work out your largest paying cheque. So if you add up your top five biggest cheques then divided by five, that will give you your current maximum paying cheque. The idea is that you should be...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote from Kevin Kelly, "The only productive way to answer, what should I do now? Is to first tackle the question of who should I become?" When you are stuck and not sure what to do next or what to do now at this point in time. Have a go and ask yourself who should I become first? What values do you want to embody? What k...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. I've just come back from Bali and had some time to reflect. One of the exercises I went through is called the moving future, this is also by Dan Sullivan. You look at your current situation and note down where you currently are? What mindset you're in? And then you go back three months. Three months ago what were you doing? Where were you? Who wer...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to talk about mental subtraction. Often we are recommended to have a gratitude practice to help us shift our mindsets to a more positive state by thinking of the things that we're grateful and thankful for. But even with a gratitude practice sometimes people can still take things for granted and that's where mental subtraction comes...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal Today I have a quote by Dan Sullivan, "Procrastination is wisdom." How can procrastination become wisdom? Naturally when we think about procrastination it is unproductive and not a desirable state of mind. We put off things that we think we should do or need to do and then eventually if it has to be done we get around to it. Finishing the task whil...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I'd like to pose an exercise and a few questions. Let's begin by listing everything that you do at work from the smallest things to the biggest things, the order doesn't matter. After you've listed everything draw up a table of four quadrants: On the upper left-hand side write work that you love and that you're great at. Upper right hand si...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote by Kevin Kelly, "The consistency of your endeavours (i.e exercise, companionship, work) is more important than the quantity. Nothing beats small things done every day, which is way more important than what you do occasionally. Consistency is my daily mantra, it allows me to begin small, get started quick and do it o...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. I'd like to start with an unknown quote, "Once she stopped rushing through life, she was amazed how much more life she had time for." In a world that moves so fast it's important for us to slow down. We literally cannot keep up with the pace that technology's moving at. How many messages, emails, calls, the expectations of our schedules. The amoun...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share an idea written by Paul Graham. What is the best way to solve a creative challenge? It is to think about it, stew on it, brainstorm about it and think about it so much that eventually the solution comes to light. Essentially that creative challenge has become top of mind for you and so what is currently top of mind for you?...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote by Epicurus "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for." This quote reminds me of a lesson that I learnt from Vishen Lakhiani about the happiness gap. There will always be things that we want to strive for like goals, ambiti...