You’ve heard me share this before. Confucius said it so well. “The person who chases two rabbits catches neither.”
What I’m encouraging you to do is this exercise before you go to sleep tonight. Let’s make this very tactical. I call it the 100 Year Timeline, on a single page, a single page from where you now are 100 years out into your ideal future. I want you every single milestone on a single line to say, “Here’s where I now am. Here’s what’s going to happen next week, next month, next quarter, next year, three years, five years, 10 years, 25 years, 50 years, 75 years, 100 years,” until you have a 100-year timeline.
On the other side of the piece of paper, with crayons so you tap into your part of the brain responsible for creativity, your right brain, with crayons, draw out your ideal family life. Draw out one year away, draw out your business life one year away. Draw out your adventure life one year out into the future. Draw out your financial life. Draw out your material life, literally on a page with crayons so you’re not thinking. Because here’s, I think, a needle-moving insight. World-class comes from instinct versus intelligence.