We’ve all heard about the recent US military operation in Venezuela.

Everyone has an opinion about it, so I won’t get into the politics of it… that’s not my concern.

But I do want to share something very valuable that I’ve taken away from it.

You see, we can learn so much wisdom from militaries around the world because they must operate in life or death situations… meaning, at a tactical level, bad ideas get filtered out fast, and good ideas stick around for a very long time.

There’s no room for being delusional or married to failed processes.

This is why for as far back as history goes, concepts like repetitive drills, marching in formations, and discipline have been foundational to virtually every military around the world.

They are good ideas that stuck, and most importantly, they kept people alive (in theory at least).

So as I listened into a few sources that covered the recent military operation, I noticed a term that kept resurfacing.

“Violence of action.”

I never heard the term before so I decided to look it up.

I immediately saw this as the perfect analogy for forcing change in our lives.

Whether it’s transforming health, starting a business, shifting priority to focus on children or marriage, most of us tend to struggle with actually making a change.

We go into new endeavors with half-assed efforts without full commitment to the cause.

This is where I’ll repurpose the concept of “Violence of Action” to rapidly design your ideal lifestyle.

We generally spend most of our life on cruise control.

Wake up, take the kids to school, go to work, come home, watch TV (or scroll online), sleep, repeat.

Maybe we sprinkle in a happy hour or a vacation into the mix. But life for most is a steady state condition.

This is fine, until it’s not.

Reality is not static. We evolve. We slowly age. Our desires and mindset changes. What we want changes.

In the short-run we don’t notice it, but with enough time, we may find that who we are today is not who we were 5 years ago. We literally look like different people. Grey hairs, wrinkles, body changes.

When we slowly evolve while maintaining the same routines year after year, eventually we come to a point where there is a large discrepancy between our current life, and the life that we think is best for us.

There may be a point where you realize that you want to focus on your kids instead of work. But your life is set up in a way that requires you to work ungodly hours, keeping you from spending time with kids.

The same may go for health. Thanks to the standard American diet, and other cultural norms, obesity, hypertension, and many other chronic diseases become serious concerns for people as they approach their 40s or 50s.

So people begin to focus more on managing their health. Yet their current lifestyle is incongruent with where they are now.

Thus, while living on cruise control is normal, and probably healthy to an extent, occasionally, one must make a step change in life. They must shift the paradigm because they’re so far out of focus that incremental alterations is not an option.

Sometimes an intervention is necessary.

This is where the “violence of action” concept comes into play.

Because if you do what most people do, then you will get the same results most people get, which is putting in some effort, seeing mediocre results, if any at all, and then reverting back to the lifestyle that you don’t even want for yourself.

I speak from experience because I’ve been in both situations, I’ve made half-hearted attempts to change my life and failed miserably.

But I’ve also successfully changed my life enough times to know what it takes.

It comes down to three key concepts that you must drill into your mind.

Forgive the hyperbole, but you get what I mean.

You HAVE to be locked in. Not half-way committed. Not acting with an expectation of executing your Plans B, C, and D.

Spend time to know what you really want.

When you take away all of the media, the commercials, the noise, the envy, the social comparison, what is it that actually makes you feel alive?

I’ve mentioned my process for doing this many times before but to summarize, you’re going to write down the following.

Cut out literally everything else to the greatest extent possible

Of course life comes with obligations. You’re always going to have to split your attention across life responsibilities.

But, as best you can, for the next 3-6 months you’ll set whatever change you’re trying to make as your single highest priority.

You’ll channel 100% of your free energy into that ONE thing.

This means cutting out the distractions that don’t contribute to that thing, and believe me, the distractions are abundant. It’s not just social media, or TV, or drinking. Those are the obvious ones.

You can’t eliminate everything that’s distraction you. But you CAN focus on cutting the highest, most costly, distractions as they relate to the specific transformation you want to make.

There’s a simple way to do this.

For 7 days, every morning write down everything you can think of that has caused you to either feel focused or distracted for that day.

Then after 7 days, run it through ChatGPT and prompted it to synthesize your journal entries into the top 3 things that are distracting you from [insert the thing you’re focusing on].

Then ask it to output it as a ranked priority list, and a justification for each distraction.

If you want to simplify this process, then CerebriX already has a built-in workflow with the anti-visioning and distraction eliminations protocols baked in.

Start with the top of this list, and work your way down as you successfully eliminate (or minimize them).

This is critical. Don’t skip this step.

Once you’ve decided that this is what you want your life to become and you know what you stand for, you cannot wait for the right moment or certainty.

I spent years waiting until I had the perfect plan when it came to leaving my 9-5 and moving to Europe. I was always searching for the once piece of information that’s going to finally give me a failproof option.

But it never came until I took action. That’s when my questions started to be answered.

The best course of action, is to actually take action.

Never give yourself time to back out of your plans. Never hesitate. Once you know what to do, then do it.

Move so fast and decisively that your fears, uncertainties, and doubts have no time to take root.

When you take action it has to be detached from outcomes.

Sometimes outcomes don’t come until months or even years later, if they come at all. So if you enter any action with the expectation of some sort of reaction, and it doesn’t happen, then your will to continue is going to vanish overnight.

By committing to acting decisively for 3-6 months and moving forward irrespective of what may or may not happen, you’re doing the groundwork that’ll eventually lead to massive breakthrough.

You’re putting energy into something and energy adds up like a spring. Eventually it will be released, and the more energy that is behind it, the more forceful the change when it does happen.

In my experience, 60 days of focused action is the minimum for efforts to compound and for habits to start to take effect. But if you really want to drive it home, then a 3-6 month window is necessary.

One of the most important lessons I’ve learned in life is that no one is consistently motivated. Motivation comes and goes.

The highest achieving people out there are not where they are because they possess some sort of genetic capability superior to the rest of us. They just happen to be extreme systems-oriented people who’ve created systems for that particular area of their lives in which they are successful.

In some periods of our life we’re disciplined, making good choices, grounded. Other times we may be unfocused and make questionable choices.

This is normal. It’s human.

But what separates the winners from those who operate in constant start-stop cycles is investing in systems for consistency and follow-through.

Use the moments of high motivation to build a system that reduces the dependency on willpower. This is called cognitive offloading:

Don’t let this scare you away though. Systems can be very simple. They don’t need to be elaborate.

Using a schedule or daily planner is a system. Using AI to streamline decision-making, is a system. Deciding to do the most important task of the day within the first hour of waking up is a system. A meal or fitness plan is a system.

You don’t sit down and build an elaborate system all at once.

As you go, you observe and track your performance. And as you notice opportunities to be better or to eliminate distractions, then you put rules, actions, or automations, in place that come together to form a system that get’s more sophisticated with time.

And it’s through having a system that you turn 3-6 months of consistent effort into a lifestyle that matches the new and evolve person you’ve become.

This is the formula for radical transformation and building a lifestyle around whatever you value the most.

Fitness. Health. Relationships. Career. Fulfillment

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