People spend an average of 4 hours and 37 minutes on their phone every single day, but can't spend 10 min a day on a vision for their future.

They wake up and scroll on their phone immediately, and by the time their brain fully recovers from their sleep, they are already tired from their dopamine receptors being completely fried.

You lose all sense of motivation to live a better life, and because this is the norm, you feel content and comfortable allowing time to pass by as well as your dreams and aspirations.

People spend an average of 1 day per week, 6 days per month or 70 days a year looking at their phone.

— You need a vision to break the cycle.

The issue isn't:

• time

• ideas

• motivation

You need a vision, goals, and a system to make them happen.

Start now.

I Always Created.

Growing up I always aimed to create, I knew nothing else (it was my norm). My dad is a photographer and my mom is a make-up artist, so I always had creative juices flowing.

Naturally I:

• drew

• painted

• created songs

• studied fashion design

As I was in fashion university I noticed that despite me being studying something rather creative I was still confined and couldn't explore my natural curiosities and grow as a person.

— Shortly said I was stuck.

So I created my ideal vision for the future and… everything changed. I began to look at people who lived that life already and used it as fuel for me to quit my studies and follow that path.

It all started with a vision for what I want and an anti-vision for what I don't want.

— This fueled me to change.

I believe most people can follow their ideal lives if they build a crystal clear vision and goals for themselves to follow.

10 minutes a day building your vision for the future and breaking it down into goals and systems will place you in the top 1%.

If you want an above-average life don't:

• surround yourself with average people

• consume mainstream information

• follow average education

• eat average food

If you want a better life have the strength to walk in the opposite direction of 99% of the population.

— Be an outsider.

Your10-Minute Vision

If everything happened just as planned, where would you want to be:

• in 10 years

• in 5 years

• in 1 year

• in 6 months

• at the end of this month

• at the end of the day

Most people don't use to-do lists, so building this out will give you a much better perspective of where you are in life. Most people are shocked by where they end up, but with a short holistic glimpse of their daily habits and actions, you realize that it wasn't a shock at all.

A Vision keeps you accountable.

Whenever you get off track and it doesn't align with your vision, you put in effort in order to self-correct it.

Why?

— because our identity is at stake, it hurts our persona.

If a bodybuilder doesn't eat the right things or skips a day at the gym, it hurts more than actually doing the heavy lifting itself.

→ it hurts their persona, their identity.

Building a Vision allows you to shift into the person who can achieve it, that is why it's so important. Creating goals and systems will get you there (which we'll talk about soon) and that will change your identity to become the successful self you always wanted to be.

The order of operation to change your life is:

Goals first, actions second.

Without goals, you are just a feather in the wind, a boat with no sail, a compass with no arrow.

Write down your goals.

You increase your chances of reaching them by 40%.

Setting Goals

Goal:

In the 1530s, it was described as: the "end point of a race,".

In a poem from early 14c. it was described as the "boundary, limit."

— This means that the goal does not last forever but it is simply a 'race' and it does end at some point. This is why building a vision is so important, as it lasts forever.

A Vision is long-term, a goal is fluid, it always changes.

Goals should be designed to be achieved, a vision is designed to be lived.

The 4 Sections of Life:

• health

• wealth

• relationships

• happiness/spirit

Set goals for each to reach the best life possible.

(the next newsletter will touch upon how to structure this)

The System

Humans are extremely forgetful.

We forget 50% of new information within an hour of learning it. Within 24 hours, that number goes up to an average of 70%.

You need a system to stay on track.

Using technology and ways to save you time is what will get you miles ahead with this.

You just need to spend 10 minutes a day systemizing your goals:

• Categorize your goals into health, wealth, relationships, and spirit

• Break them down into bite-sized goals

• Create Habits for each

Most people get lost when they begin to break down dreams to actionable steps. Don't be like most people.

Building a system is essential for you to reach your vision so you need to build it, now.

— I am currently building the 10-minute Vision, a product to help you with this. Stay tuned.

It Never Ends

Building a Vision always continues, it's like slowly peeling a layer off of yourself until you reach your core purpose.

It takes time, so don't use a Vision as an excuse to live in the future and not to take action in the present.

Hope you enjoyed this one.

Jay