[[Habits & Longevity (Anti-Ageing) Playbook]] # Introduction - **Objective**: get to know yourself, your aspirations, and how to accomplish them by leading the most beautiful life. - **Timeframe**: you’ll need between half a day and a full day to complete the guide. - I’ve put some indicative times next to each subsection’s title. Depending on how well you know yourself and your knowledge of the specific question, you can go much faster or slower. Go at your speed. - Repeat every year. You can do a mid-year check-in if you’ve had major life changes. - **Guidelines**: - Make sure you won’t be distracted, you’ll have to go deep down for this one. - Do it alone, with your significant other or very best friend. # Assess your needs and situation - ‘No man was ever wise by chance’ ## Past year review - 1h Inspired from [Tim Ferris](https://tim.blog/2021/12/27/past-year-review/): - Grab a notepad and create two columns: POSITIVE and NEGATIVE. - Go through your calendar from the last year, looking at every week. Look at your phone’s pictures to double check. - For each month, jot down on the pad any people or activities or commitments that triggered peak positive or negative emotions for that month. Put them in their respective columns. - Once you’ve gone through the past year, look at your notepad list and ask, What 20% of each column produced the most reliable or powerful peaks? - Keep your positive leaders - Create an avoid-at-all-costs list for the negative leaders (people, things,.. Don’t do them because of FOMO, social pressure or other bullshit). ## Pyramid of needs - Maslow - 1.5h For every item of the pyramid of needs: - What would define each item for you specifically? - How would it ideally manifest itself? - What do you want regarding this item? - What do you not want? - How well are you doing with it? - How important is it for you?  ## [[49 questions of Kaufman]] - 1.5h ## [[Meaningful Relationships & Deep Questions Guide]] ## Take a break! # Where do you want to go? - ‘You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire’ ## Key questions - 1h - If you were to die in a year, what would you change about your life? - What are the things you absolutely don't want to be regretting on your deathbed? - What job would you be happy doing even if you weren't paid for it? What would it consist of? - What would you do if you received a gift of 1 million euros? 10 M€? 100M€? - Can you make these changes already? - If no, what would be the requirements to do so? ## Define your objective - 1h - Basing yourself on the preceding questions, what’s your key objective, your mission in life, the ultimate state of being you want to reach? - In 25 years? - In 10 years? - In 5 years? - In 1 year? - Which key results would define reaching that objective? # How to get there - ‘Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power’ - Define how to reach the key results, from what you enjoy doing, what you are good at, and what you need to function optimally. - Now for some trimming: ## The [[5-25 rule]] - 0.5h 1. List the 25 things you want to accomplish in the foreseeable future (results rather than processes) 2. Rank them 3. Congrats! You now have identified your top 5 key priorities. 4. The 20 other things become your avoid-at-all-cost list. 5. You can start #6 if and only if the 5 first items are finished. [Warren Buffett’s 5/25 Rule Will Help You Focus On The Things That Matter](https://constantrenewal.com/5-25-rule/) ## OKR - 1.5h - You know the drill. - If not, check out [Objectives and key results - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectives_and_key_results) - Or even better [High Output Management - Andy Grove](https://www.amazon.com/High-Output-Management-Andrew-Grove/dp/0679762884) - Focus on items that condition your well being: what is non-negotiable for you to be in your very best physical and mental health, every single day. - Then define indispensable time allocation criteria for your 5 key priorities, if they can be translated to recurring processes (e.g. become a code master -> spend 10h/day 6days/week on that pursuit). - Keep it simple. - Focus on recurring processes (e.g. meditate 30 minutes a day) rather than key results. - You can use this sheet as a base: [Personal OKR example - GSheets](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GbOBzdMYd0GaUcdUKE0kYiS7unkBJBA0GkQ7o_DlzIk/edit?usp=sharing) ## Decision framework - 1h - Define your core values, your very own framework that will allow you to assess if you’re on the right track. The decision protocol that allows you to make the most rational choice at each inflection point. - Then use it to evaluate your current life choices. Your job. Your relationships. Your next moves. - Here are some starters: - Are they all on the maximum growth path? - What’s the opportunity cost? - What am I not doing? - What do I want? What would I need to have 2x the desired outcome? 10x the desired outcome?