"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."
— Napoleon Hill.
Belief is not a magic wand, belief is a contract.
The mind signs it, and then the body, then the schedule, and then the mouth begins to honour it.
YES, YOU CAN.
Believe it.
"Books are the closest thing you’ll ever come to finding cheat codes for real life. You can access the entire learnings of someone else's career in a few hours." —@tobi
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt explains how a simple pen-and-paper habit on weekends helped him take charge of every week:
The habit came from his late coach, Bill Campbell, the legendary executive coach featured in the book Trillion Dollar Coach.
"He really saved me from you know utter destitution and helped me become a proper CEO," Schmidt explains.
The rule is deceptively simple:
Work as hard as you can during the week, then deliberately carve out quiet thinking time on the weekend.
Schmidt describes it like this:
"You work really hard during the week as hard as you can you know 12 hours 14 hour days whatever and on the weekends when you're at home or with your family or whatever carve out a few hours to think... and write down your assessment of what you did last week and then what you need to do next week to address the things you forgot to do last week."
The mechanism that makes it work is the writing itself.
Putting pen to paper turns passive reflection into an active audit of the week behind you and a deliberate plan for the week ahead.
@ericschmidt acknowledges how basic it sounds, but insists that's the point:
"I know that that sounds kind of obvious, but it's a good trick cuz it forces you to take charge of your next week."
He gives concrete examples of what surfaces during these sessions:
"Like, oh, I forgot that I have a sales problem over there, or I forgot I was supposed to call this person. Oh, I didn't have this proposal and I had this idea, but I didn't get to it."
Leadership isn't sustained by working harder inside the week. A few quiet hours and an honest review of what you missed are often what separates reactive operators from CEOs in command of their priorities.
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