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How to dramatically improve business decision making... The After-Action Review (4 questions): A simple, powerful framework used by the military and leading corporations to make continuous improvements by reflecting on each completed action and distilling the relevant insights to inform future actions. The After-Action Review is four key questions: 1. What did we intend to accomplish? 2. What did we accomplish relative to our intention? 3. Why did it happen this way? 4. What will we do to adapt and refine for an improved outcome? It is typically conducted after a major project or action to assess the performance of an individual or team and make adjustments necessary in advance of the next one. While managers and employees can certainly benefit from engaging in a formal AAR in a professional setting, I find the AAR to be a useful template for informal, on-the-fly process improvements. A few examples: After a difficult conversation with a partner or friend. Why didn't that go as I intended? What changes can I make next time? After a race or competition. Why didn't that go as well as I had hoped? What changes can I make to my training plan next time? After a meeting with a new mentor. Why didn't that prove as fruitful as I hoped? What changes can I make next time? I like the framework because it puts an emphasis on my actions—the things I can control—rather than wasting energy worrying about that external factors that I cannot. I typically just run through the questions in my head, but you can write them down if you'd like. Give it a shot coming out of your next project or personal event and let me know what you think. Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in future! P.S. You can get my free Quarterly Review template and join 750,000+ others who read my writing weekly here: https://lnkd.in/e-ba4pfi

How to become a morning person... Here are my 5 actionable, science-based strategies: 1. Create a repeatable evening routine. A few minutes of prep for the following morning and a simple journaling practice will work wonders. You'll be prepared to fall asleep and hit the ground running the next morning. 2. Move your alarm clock. The snooze button is the enemy of your morning. By putting your alarm clock in another room, you force yourself to get out of bed to turn it off. You'll never snooze again. 3. Use my 5-5-5-30 method. You need a jolt of energy to start the day (and caffeine takes 30 minutes to work). Try this instead: 5 pushups, 5 squats, 5 lunges, and a 30 second plank. Immediate energy boost and a winning feeling. 4. Front-Load Your Energy Creators. Create intrinsic motivation by pulling things you're excited to do to the first thing of the day. If you have work you love, pull that to the early morning. If you have a workout you love, pull that to the early morning. Get yourself naturally excited for the morning hours. 5. Go to Bed Earlier. Sorry, it seems obvious, but it's often overlooked. Go to bed earlier to make sure you get 7-8 hours of sleep. Create a great sleeping routine and environment (cold, dark room, light reading, white noise, etc.). This video breaks down the 5 strategies in detail. Check it out and become a morning person today: Found value in this? Please share it with your network! https://lnkd.in/e5un5dEN

Half Marathon: 1:19:59 - New PR - Average Pace 6:02 - Finished 5th out of 675 - 1st in age group A lot of miles in the cold darkness of the pain cave, but we got it done. Let’s go! 🚀🔥

Harsh Truth: There’s someone less qualified than you living the life you want simply because they took action and you didn’t. Your entire life will change the moment you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have. I’m speaking from experience here: I spent years gathering information and avoiding action. In hindsight, I can admit I was using the information gathering to hide from my fear of action. Dopamine from information gathering is a dangerous drug. Get your dopamine from action. Pay attention to the actions, not the words. Words deceive, actions rarely do. Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more! P.S. You can get my free ebook containing the Most Powerful Life Hacks and join 750,000+ others who read my writing weekly here: https://lnkd.in/edxXi82t

I challenged myself to cold plunge every morning for 100 straight days. 10 lessons from 100 days in the cold: Lesson 1: Discipline is about what you do on the days when you feel like crap. It's easy to be disciplined when you feel great. It's hard when you feel like crap. Those are the days when you remind yourself that you are a winner. Lesson 2: Stop overthinking, just start. "No plan survives first contact with the enemy." Too many get their dopamine from the planning. Too few get their dopamine from the doing. Plan a bit, then make first contact with "your enemy" and start improving fast. Lesson 3: Adaptability is essential (and it's a skill you can build). "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change." - Charles Darwin. Life is chaotic. If you can embrace that chaos, you'll win. Lesson 4: You're remembered for your actions, not your words. The world is filled with gurus who talk the talk, but never walk the walk. Beware anyone who tries to sell you food that they aren't eating themselves. Be the person whose actions are always louder than their words. Lesson 5: If you want to get better at anything, do it every day. There are plenty of ways to get better at something, but the best way is simple: Just do the damn thing every single day. It's hard to comprehend just how much you will improve by doing something every day. Lesson 6: Don't do it the "right" way, do it your way. When you start something new, everyone will want to give you advice on the "right" way to do it. They will give you their maps for the terrain. Take their maps, but use them to create your own. Lesson 7: We're all in the fight together. I asked viewers of my cold plunge videos to send me questions. They were universal. Every single person is fighting a battle—and it's a battle that you understand. Lesson 8: You get to choose your hard. It's hard to live with purpose. It's also hard to live without one. It's hard to build a fit physique. It's also hard to see your body fail. It's hard to build deep relationships. It's also hard to live on the surface. Choose your hard. Lesson 9: Focus on the days and you'll lose sight of the years. It's easy to get caught up in the ups and downs of the days and lose sight of the bigger picture. Always remember: When in doubt, zoom out. Lesson 10: Do hard things. When you embrace voluntary struggle you'll be prepared for the involuntary struggle of life. Wake up early, Get cold, Lift heavy, Be present, Have difficult conversations. Do hard things. *** The challenge wasn't easy: - Three continents - Several frozen rivers - Dozens of hotel bathtubs - One icy shower at 40,000 feet I had one simple conclusion: You are capable of so much more than you realize. Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more. P.S. Join 750,000+ others who get deeper dives in their inbox: https://lnkd.in/esGsF85Q

I recently came across this incredible post on Reddit... An important reminder for everyone: If you believe that you are meant for more... • More love • More money • More trust • More success ...you can go out and take the action to make that *more* a reality. No matter where you are today—no matter how deep in the darkness—you are always just one good action away from being in a better place tomorrow. Don’t worry about the hundreds or thousands of actions that you still have to make to get to where you want to be—just focus on the next action. One action is all it takes. You are always just one action away. Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in the future. P.S. You can plan your actions for change with my free Annual Planning Guide here: https://lnkd.in/eMKTiVVf

I Tried To Break My 15K Personal Best... Race Day Vlog (Food, Strategy, & Reflections): Come along with me as I attempt to smash my 15km race record in this action-packed race day vlog! I cover everything from pre-race nutrition and strategy to the race itself and post-race reflections (on running and life). This race HURT so good. Let's Go! https://lnkd.in/eEFMTUJT

3 tiny daily habits that upgraded my life (steal these to upgrade yours too): 1. No phone for 30 minutes post-wakeup. I used to be one of those people who checked their phone before even getting out of bed. It was a deeply unhealthy practice. Checking your phone to start your day is an invitation for stress. The immediate burst of notifications, requests, and questions starts your day on a bad note. Creating boundaries and giving yourself the space to start the day on your terms is essential. Go through a few morning rituals--whatever rituals you prefer--before checking your phone. 2. Grayscale mode at least 90% of the day. Grayscale mode removes all of the crazy attractive colors and features of your phone that are specifically designed by these companies to make them addicting. When you put your phone on Grayscale mode, you eliminate the urge to pick it up and "just check" throughout the day. That one tiny change will make you more productive (and much more present!) in every single activity. 3. 1-1-1 journaling every evening. Before going to bed at night, write down: • 1 win from the day • 1 point of gratitude • 1 point of tension, anxiety, or stress Writing down the win gives you a pat on the back for whatever you accomplished (no matter how small). Writing down the point of gratitude gives you more appreciation for your life Writing down the point of tension gets it off your mind and onto the paper so that you can unwind and fall asleep with a clear head. I've been doing this for over a year and it completely changed my sleep and daily mindset. *** Those 3 tiny changes have had a major impact on my life. The best part: They're all free and take very little time or energy to implement. Give them a shot and let me know what you think! Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in the future. P.S. You can get my free ebook containing the Most Powerful Life Hacks and join 750,000+ others who read my writing weekly here: https://lnkd.in/edxXi82t

This Reddit post that hit me hard... It has a powerful lesson on self-improvement: Contrary to what you may believe, self improvement is not about cold plunging at 4am, lifting weights for 6 hours, running 100 miles per week, or going into monk mode for 6 months. Self improvement is about SELF improvement. It is about YOU. About YOUR baseline, wherever YOU are coming from, and beating that version of you from yesterday. Stop comparing your day 1 to everyone else’s day 1000. Stop allowing the highlight reels on social media to hold you back from improving yourself. Make one positive decision today that will leave you slightly better than yesterday. Then make another. Then another. That’s self improvement. *** Enjoy this? Share it with your network and follow me Sahil Bloom for more in the future. P.S. You can get my free annual planning guide and join 750,000+ others who read my writing weekly here: https://lnkd.in/eMKTiVVf