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Forget New Year's Resolutions. Simplify. What is one word that you can focus on for 2021?

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Perhaps my biggest Aha moment came during the spring shutdown. It demonstrated how interconnected we all are to each other. Each person, family, community business, institution depends on the other in some way. That's enough reason to help your neighbor at every turn.

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Perhaps my biggest Aha moment came during the spring shutdown. It demonstrated how interconnected we all are to each other. Each person, family, community business, institution depends on the other in some way. That's enough reason to help your neighbor at every turn.

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Me: Okay, God, here's the thing. I'm scared. I'm trying not to be, but I am.

God: I know. Want to talk about it?

Me: Do we need to? I mean, you already know.

God: Let's talk about it anyway... We've done this before.

Me: I know, I just feel like I should be bigger or stronger or something by now.

God: *waiting patiently, unhurried, undistracted, never annoyed.

Me: Okay. So, I'm afraid I'll do everything I can to protect my family and it won't be enough. I'm afraid of someone I love dying. I'm afraid the world won't go back to what it was before. I'm afraid my life is always going to feel this unsettled.

God: Anything else?

Me: EVERYTHING ELSE.

God: Remember how your daughter woke up the other night and came running down the hall to your bedroom?

Me: Yes.

God: You were still awake, so when you heard her running, you started calling out to her before she even got to you... remember? Do you remember what you called out to her?

Me: I said, "You're okay! You're okay! You're okay! I'm here."

God: Why did you call out to her? Why didn't you just wait for her to get to your room?

Me: Because I wanted her to know that I was awake, and I heard her, and she didn't have to be afraid until she reached the end of the dark hallway.

God: Exactly. I hear you, my child. I hear your thoughts racing like feet down the dark hallway. There's another side to all of this. I'm there already. I've seen the end of it. And I want you to know right here as you walk through it all, you're okay. I haven't gone to sleep, and I won't.

Me: *crying. Can we sit together awhile? Can we just sit here a minute before I go back to facing it all?

God: There's nothing I'd love more.

by: Becky Thompson

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The pandemic has forced us to think/do things differently, and some of it has led to pleasant surprises. I hope that we will use what we've learned to do things better in the long term.

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Unity, healing, health, joy, hugs, laughing, growth.

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Breath, for yourself.
Be Present, with others.
Be Kind, always.

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Kindness
Respect
Acceptance
Justice
Love
and joy!

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Kindness starts from within.  We have a choice each day to be kind to each other.  To respect each other.    We cannot look to others, such as our politicians, to do this for us.  It begins with us.  This is my hope for 2021 and beyond.   

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Kindness starts from within.  We have a choice each day to be kind to each other.  To respect each other.    We cannot look to others, such as our politicians, to do this for us.  It begins with us.  This is my hope for 2021 and beyond.   

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Keep a journal of at least one positive memory each day.
Writing just a few sentences will allow your brain to relive the experience...doubling its effect.

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The Best Motivational Games for Employees and Remote Workers

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Here is a run-down of our favourite fun motivational games, designed to engage both remote workers and employees in the workplace. Motivational Games for Remote Workers With more and more companies moving to homeworking, we've come up with a list [&hellip.

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Only you can control your mind and your focus. 

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Only you can control your mind and your focus. 

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Fill your mind with hope and possibilities from the Positive University Podcast.

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Positive University Podcast | Jon Gordon

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Positive University Podcast | Jon Gordon

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Positive Inspiration, Encouragement and Lessons to Help You Overcome Your Challenges and Make a Greater Impact. Guests include: Dabo Swinney, Tony Dungy, Kerri Walsh Jennings, Sean McVay, Alan Mulally and more.

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Communities come together.
Civility in our politics.
Decorum among leaders.
Productive civic dialogue and deliberation. Let's find out what we can agree upon and build on it.

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Load your email or newsfeed with positive messages:

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In an era of uncertainty, learn.
Which model do you prefer?

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The Thinking Tool That Self-Made Billionaires, Accelerated Learners, Technology Investors, Successful Entrepreneurs, Highly-Paid Consultants, Coaches, & Cultural Creatives Are Using To Dramatically Increase Their Success...

Design inspired by the Cognitive Bias Codex

Out of all the interventions we can do to make smarter decisions in our life and career, mastering the most useful and universal mental models is arguably the most important.

Over the last few months, I've written about how many of the most successful self-made billionaire entrepreneurs like Ray Dalio, Elon Musk, and Charlie Munger swear by mental models...

"Developing the habit of mastering the multiple models which underlie reality is the best thing you can do. "

- Charlie Munger

"Those who understand more of them and understand them well [principles / mental models] know how to interact with the world more effectively than those who know fewer of them or know them less well. "

- Ray Dalio

"It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, i.e. the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang onto."
- Elon Musk

Each of these luminary entrepreneurs use different words to essentially say the same thing.

I've collected the 650+ most useful mental models from the best mental model curators in the world. It is now the most comprehensive list in the world. And I've launched a free mental model mini-course to help you understand what a mental model is and how to apply it to your life.

This infographic is the culmination of all these articles. It is my personal list of the 12 most useful & universal mental models that I believe everyone should master first. For each mental model, I share the sub mental models that make it up and one paragraph explaining its significance.

This infographic matters because it would take 6,500 hours to master each of the 650 mental models that others have recommended. That's a lot of freaking time! You probably aren't ready to commit that amount of time to mental models... yet. By creating this infographic, I hope to save you dozens of hours determining which models to learn first.

Mental models are descriptions of reality that apply across every area of our life, don't get outdated, and provide immediate results by helping you make better decisions.

They are like little miniature mental maps of how a particular area of life works.

And when you learn them, it changes everything.

One of the most famous and valuable mental models is called the Pareto Principle. You probably know it as the "80/20 rule." This mental models says that most of your results are going to come from just a small percentage of your effort or work.

Vilfredo Pareto, the man who discovered this principle noticed that 80% of the land in his area was owned by 20% of the people. He looked in his garden, and saw that 80% of the peas were in 20% of the pea pods. Then he realized that this was something like an organizing principle of life.

This phenomena applies across many domains including productivity, happiness, business, health, etc. Here are a few examples:

20% of relationships lead to 80% of happiness.

20% of exercises lead to 80% of health benefit.

20% of items on your to do list lead to 80% of productivity.

For example, by taking 30-60 minutes per day for prioritization, you can double your productivity. By auditing the relationships in your life, you can identify people you want to spend more time with and people you want to remove from your life. By looking at what experiences give you the most delight, you can begin to engineer your life differently.

The rule can also be inverted:

20% of relationships cause 80% of drama.

20% of clients cause 80% of the problems.

20% of foods you eat cause 80% of your sickness.

For example, by taking 30-60 minutes per day for prioritization, you can double your productivity. By auditing the relationships in your life, you can identify people you want to spend more time with and people you want to remove from your life. By looking at what experiences give you the most delight, you can begin to engineer your life differently.

This model is much more complex and it can be applied to infinitely more places, but this basic version allows you to quickly get value from it.

I've learned from personal experience that it literally takes years to develop true mastery of the mental models. Therefore, I created two resources for you:

Resource #1: Free Mental Model Course (For Newbies)

If you're just learning about mental models for the first time, my free email course will help you get started. My team and I have spent dozens of hours creating it. Inside, you'll learn the models that these billionaires use to make business and investing decisions - tools you can apply immediately to your life and business. You'll also learn how to naturally use these models in your everyday life.
Sign up for the free mini-course here >>
Resource #2: Mental Model Of The Month Club (For Those Who Want Mastery)

If you're already convinced of the power of mental models and want to deliberately set about mastering them, then this resource is for you. It's the program I wish I'd had when I was just getting started with mental models.

Here's how it works:

Every month, you'll master one new mental model.

We'll focus on the most powerful and universal models first.

We'll provide you with a condensed and simple Mastery Manual (think: Cliff's Notes) to help you deeply understand the model and integrate it into your life.

Each master manual includes:

A 101 Overview of the mental model (why it's important, how it works, its vocabulary, etc.)

An Advanced Overview that includes a more nuanced explanation.

Hacks you can use immediately to apply that mental model to every area of your life and career. These hacks are based on my personal experience and are crowdsourced as well.

Exercises and templates you can use on a daily basis to integrate the lessons in the manual and achieve maximum results in your life.

A Facebook community where you can meet other mental model collectors and learn from one another.

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This Is Exactly How You Should Train Yourself To Be Smarter [Infographic]

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Out of all the interventions we can do to make smarter decisions in our life and career, mastering the most useful and universal mental models is arguably the most important. Over the last few months, I've written about how many of the most successful self-made billionaire entrepreneurs like Ray Dalio, Elon Musk, and Charlie Munger swear by mental models...

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We can all do our part and make a difference for others.

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We can all do our part and make a difference for others.

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The Buddha is the archetype of the spiritual master. The person who can live in this world but also move with an ease, grace, and flow that comes from inner awareness and alignment.

The Badass is the archetype of the changemaker. This is the person who is out there creating change, building, coding, writing, inventing, leading. The badass represents the benevolent disruptor - the person challenging the norms so we can be better as a species.

Imagine what happens when you meld the two into one leader....

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I hope to use all of my experiences from 2020, good and bad, to help navigate 2021 with a better mindset. 

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I hope to use all of my experiences from 2020, good and bad, to help navigate 2021 with a better mindset. 

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We can give everyone grace and kindness, even when we're dancing like no one's watching.

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We can give everyone grace and kindness, even when we're dancing like no one's watching.

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I hope that we can continue moving forward as a country and create unity instead of division.