A General Success Virtual Field Trip
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Congratulations on making it to the final post of the General Success segment of the ALRS! For this post, we’ll celebrate your progress so far with a virtual field trip to the website The Art of Manliness, which has several posts and podcasts that fit well into this segment’s theme. Not to say there aren’t other posts and podcasts from that site that also fit the theme, but these below stand out as excellent pieces to read or listen to. They are real gems that provide a lot of interesting and useful information to help you be more successful at anything you want to accomplish!
The recommended pieces are ordered here from shortest to longest overall time commitment. If you can, go through these when you can take notes about what you learn to help you get the most out of them. Creating notes to review later will help you refresh yourself on the key points of each piece in a fraction of the time it would take to go through them all over again.
- Be Your Own Butler
- Make Your Bed, Change the World
- Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement
- How to Have the Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding
- The Power of Morning and Evening Routines
- Mise en Place: The Chef’s Secret to a More Productive and Organized Life
Be Your Own Butler (estimated 2-minute read)
This post explains how your present self can serve your future self, and how your future self will look back on your past self with gratitude for the preparations your past self will have provided for your present self: Be Your Own Butler | The Art of Manliness.
Make Your Bed, Change the World (24-minute listen)
Get every day off to a good start by making your bed as soon as you wake up for the day. By doing that, you’ll have immediately successfully completed a task and established a productive tone for the day from the minute you woke up. This podcast also explains how to remain resilient in your efforts even when you aren’t being praised or encouraged, and how to keep pushing ahead when simply unfair setbacks frustrate the pursuit of your goals: Make Your Bed, Change the World — William McRaven Interview | Art of Manliness.
Get 1% Better Every Day: The Kaizen Way to Self-Improvement (estimated 7-minute read and 42-minute listen)
This topic is presented as a post and a podcast. Both explain how you can accumulate a significant amount of improvement by consistently looking for one or a few small things to improve each day. You’d be surprised at how several small improvements can collectively add up to significant gains before long: Kaizen: Get a Little Better Each Day | The Art of Manliness is the link to the post and Podcast #341: The Kaizen Method — Get 1% Better Each Day | The Art of Manliness is the link to the podcast.
How to Have the Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding (49-minute listen)
Even though this podcast isn’t geared directly towards personal productivity and achievement, the fact is that we live in a social world where most of our work is done in cooperation with other people instead of alone. Knowing how to effectively and successfully handle high-stakes relationship situations can strengthen relationships instead of damaging them or allowing them to degrade, which can correspondingly strengthen your ability to get things done in cooperation with other people. Learn about how to initiate conversations you need to have with other people but currently feel hesitant to bring up: Podcast #1,105: How to Have the Conversations You’ve Been Avoiding | The Art of Manliness.
The Power of Morning and Evening Routines (estimated 8-minute read, 7-minute watch, and 36-minute listen)
Creating morning and evening routines can help you protect parts of your day from distractions and save time for what’s most important to you. Read about how to set up your own routines and look at a sample of them for inspiration: Morning and Evening Routines: How to Start and End a Successful Day | The Art of Manliness.
Here’s a video associated with the article: Morning and Evening Routines [VIDEO] | The Art of Manliness, and the podcast: Best Morning Routine: Creating One That's Right for You | Art of Manliness.
Mise en Place: The Chef’s Secret to a More Productive and Organized Life (estimated 7-minute read and 50-minute listen)
Learn more about how to systematically plan and act each day in an organized and orderly way, helping you to have things requiring significant preparation ready at the right time. This post and podcast combine ideas from several of the ALRS General Success posts. Mise en Place is a great topic for how to keep your mind clear and executing effectively in rushed, chaotic situations: Mise en Place: The Chef's Secret to a More Productive and Organized Life | The Art of Manliness. Here’s the podcast that goes with the post: Mise-en-Place: How Chefs Organize Their Work | Art of Manliness.
Conclusion
The secrets to general success and achievement are generally the same regardless of what you’re trying to do or who you ask. They generally involve creating clarity and order in your view of a situation and your plans and actions to achieve your goals in that situation. Planning and preparing ahead of time can minimize the risk of setbacks getting in your way, but it’s also important to be resilient to setbacks and to work through issues with others as part of pursuing your goals. Even though you’ve now finished the General Success segment of the Accelerated Learning Roadmap for Success, stay alert for anything you can learn from others about how to better master habits and mindsets that help you be more successful in your endeavors.
Check out the great posts and podcasts linked above for more helpful information about being successful today!
Total estimated time commitment to cover all the content mentioned in this post: 3 hours and 52 minutes.
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