Shortcuts of Real Life Success

Shortcuts of Life

What would you say if I told you that you could achieve anything you want simply by taking shortcuts? Well, that’s exactly what happens in our lives every day. We take shortcuts to get things done faster, or to save time. And these shortcuts often come at a price.

If you’re looking for ways to improve your productivity, then you should consider shortcuts. They might seem like a good idea initially, but they can hinder your performance. In this article, we’ll discuss some common shortcuts that you shouldn’t follow.

Shortcuts can be very useful when you don’t have enough time to complete a task. For example, if you’re running late for an important meeting, you can always call someone else to cover for you. Or if you’re stuck in traffic, you can listen to music instead of wasting time waiting for the traffic to clear.

Here Are Shortcuts of Real Life Success

Pick the Right Boat

Everyone works hard because everyone wants a better life. We've yet to hear someone tell us you know what I want worse for myself. Outworking everyone isn't a viable plan though if hard work was the only answer people working in coal mines would have been the richest. Remember this your first real-life shortcut the boat you are in is more important than how hard you row that's why programmers are currently massively overpaid. Statistically, there is a huge shortage of programmers worldwide. There are just not enough of them, so they have leverage on what to pick for themselves. There are plenty of businesses out there that need programmers. Now being in the programming boat is more important than how good of a programmer you are or how hard you work. This happens everywhere you look so, find the right boat and get your first shortcut.

Built to Sell

This is a business philosophy, but it applies to individuals as well. In business building to sell means doing everything clean solid and organized, nobody wants to buy an unpredictable business. When you think about it you sell yourself constantly throughout your life you sell yourself to a job, to a spouse, to a new group of friends, and so on. Just like in business nobody wants to buy the unpredictable messy and disorganized you. This will impact both your professional and personal relationships. The way you present yourself will always impact how others approach you. Build yourself to sell and the doors will start to open faster.

Avoid Doing Unscalable Things

Doing one thing great one time is admirable but ultimately not that valuable, for example pulling an extremely efficient all-nighter and getting that big project done just in time is impressive but it's not important what's important is your ability to scale. Scaling means doing the work once and reaping the benefits repeatedly, for example, an architect can build one house for one client at one time, or they can draw the blueprints of a pre-built house and sell the same project over and repeatedly. Look around you and see what you can build to scale. We remember a while ago reading about a programmer who wrote a script that did his job every day for him while he spent his time playing video games there's always something you can build to scale.

+1 Percent Daily

People who get to say I made it do one precise thing that everyone else doesn't want to do. They do the boring stuff consistently. Is it exciting to start a business or go on your own path? Sure, but the exciting part is like 20% of it. The rest is boring repetitive work for another shortcut in life get used to doing the repetitive boring work because that work is getting you closer by one percent every day and that compounds itself over time. Do this and you'll find yourself achieving a lot more in one year than others do in ten.

Personal Education

The biggest shortcut in life is personal education. It's got the highest leverage and the greatest returns. A highly educated person can connect dots that others don't even see in the first place.

Abuse 80/20

It's way faster to build 10 good enough things than to build one thing to perfection. The 80/20 rule is the secret sauce that smart people use to move extremely quickly, and you should already be familiar with this. essentially in almost everything, 20% of the efforts give 80% of the results for example, in a 10-person company two people get most of the work done. Find out what that twenty percent of work looks like and get it done fast.

Find a Mentor

A good mentor helps you to narrow down your best course of action. They've already done what you're trying to do. They've seen it happening they know what works and what doesn't. When the time comes, they can steer you in the right direction and it's up to you to take the steps. Whatever you're trying to do find someone who's already done it befriend them and be of use to them or if that's not a possibility be a shadow mentee. There are plenty of people who share their knowledge and insights online so follow them learn as much as you can from them and ask them specific questions every now and then who knows maybe they will answer.

Overlap Good Habits

Find where you can hit two birds with one stone with your habits. Let's say you want to start your personal education and improve your health. Find your good habits whether already present or that you wish you'd had. Then find an activity that hits as many of them at the same time and you're golden.

Be Loud When Needed

It's not always the most capable people that get ahead it's the loudest that's the reason why sometimes you see incompetent people in positions of power. They're not afraid either consciously or unconsciously to be loud. Have a backbone and stand your ground know your worth and act like it. Keep in mind that promotions usually go to employees who ask for them not necessarily the ones who deserve it. It's the same in life.

Shortcuts: Measure Everything

Look you can't improve what you can't measure period. There's a famous quote that goes “Infantry wins battles logistics wins wars”. This essentially means that you can't achieve something through brute force. Hit the gym as hard as you want you're still only going to lose weight by tracking your caloric deficit. Find the right metrics and measure them aggressively.

Shortcuts: There is No Work-Life Balance

There isn't a work-life balance if you want to go fast. You need to sacrifice some parts of your personal life for a short period. Just because hard work is not the deciding factor doesn't mean it's not implied. Now this might not be for you and that's totally fine we're just telling it like it is.

Shortcuts: Build a Network or Join One

One of our friends earns six figures a year and is an independent digital artist. He got most of his projects through his network. He built his network by being present at all kinds of events related to his industry and generally being a nice person to talk to. Go back to step two and build to sell then go out there and be loud.

Shortcuts: When You're Forced to Make a Change Make a Positive One

This is for when life throws curveballs at you an unpredictable event happened. You need to change your job or the place you live or whatever you essentially have three options downgrade, side grade, or upgrade. If you downgrade you cut down your lifestyle and learn to live at a lower-level worth it if that serves a higher purpose down the road but only then. If you side grade you're just wasting time. The only real option is to upgrade if you're forced to move might as well move higher. Your new circumstances will put you in a position to make it or break it go hard or go home as they say. People improve fast when their only option is to improve. Use this to your own advantage. If you're forced to make a play, make a game-winning play.

Shortcuts: Be Genuine and Kind

Being genuine and kind is so rare these days that you genuinely get surprised when you encounter it. Doing the right thing will always be the right thing. If you're not. You're not taking any shortcuts you're cutting corners and there's a big difference you can only cut so many corners until you end up running in circles.

Shortcuts: Let Others Help You

Some people's ego is too big to let others help them or point out their mistakes. They feel like if they let somebody else help them it'll stain their reputation as a self-made person. Here's the truth nobody is truly self-made. Take advantage of opportunities and if someone offers you help then take it. Then help others yourself.