Jason Dzamba

I find the gaps in your business, design the system, build it, and train your team to run it.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

You don't need to overhaul your life. You need a way to stop forgetting what you told yourself mattered.

30 minutes. Any channel that's been dark.

The one you've been ignoring is probably the one that changes everything.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Going all-in on work is valid as a short-term sprint. It's not a long-term strategy. What happens when you ignore the other channels: the world manages them for you. It's rarely the way you would choose.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

When you try to manage your life goals inside someone else's system, a journaling app, a project management tool, a note-taking app, they don't fit. You can't adapt the system to your unique language.

You're putting your goal into their system. It should be the other way.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

The heart goal: "I want to feel great about my body." The discrete goal: "One date night every two weeks."

The heart goal without the discrete goal is a wish.
The discrete goal without the heart goal is a task.

You need both.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

People give up because they go in too heavy. Every day. Overcommit. Too much. Eager for results. Then they burn out. Take the smallest interval. 15 minutes. Stack frequency. That's how you make progress.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

When you get closer to a goal, the opportunity will challenge you and test if you really want it or not. And if you do not want it, maybe you want something else.

The new goal you set is marks how you have changed as a person.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

"Always have your next dream prepared." When there is nothing next, you don't feel satisfied. You feel stuck.

We are open systems. Always wanting more. It's in our nature. Fulfillment is moving forward on your terms.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

No one's creating the path for you. You create the path. You test it. You define it. You walk it. You are the ultimate judgment of whether you succeeded or failed. The opportunity and burden is on you.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

We have this idea that we'll have time for everything in the future.

Time management says: let me do everything, let me get to everything.

That's a bias.

The truth is we have limited time.

We need to exclude things.
We need to focus on what's most important.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Intrinsic goals produce higher well-being.
Extrinsic goals produce more anxiety.

Even when you achieve them. You can hit every goal on your list and still feel empty.

The question isn't how to achieve. It's what's worth pursuing.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Relationships can't be completed. There's no finish line for "great marriage" or "present parent." It's a perpetual goal. Ongoing. Continuous. Always requiring attention. That's not a flaw in the system.

That's the nature of deep goals.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Your goals are as unique as you are. When you define them, you unravel the steps to reach them.

It is not society creating goals for you based on how old or young you are. It is you checking in internally and deciding where you want to go with your life.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

They executed really well for 30 years. Did what they were told. Became distinguished.

When they retired from the military, they felt massive regret. They were executing someone else's goals.

They never asked: what makes me feel fulfilled?

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Drive without vision is motion without direction. You can be one of the most disciplined, hard-working, relentlessly executing founders in any room. And still be going the wrong way. Drive got you into the room.

Vision is what earns the investment.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

The most chaotic periods of my life were when I was straying from what mattered.

Chasing business for money alone. A relationship for status. Achievement for validation. The anxiety didn't come from working too hard.

It came from working on the wrong things.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

Every choice eliminates a possibility.

You reply to your boss at dinner without realizing you just chose to not be present with your partner.

You skip the workout.

You just chose not to invest in your health.

Are you choosing deliberately?

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

When the solution to every new area of life is a new tool, that's not a system. That's a collection of workarounds. You keep adding tools thinking the next one is the missing piece. Stop collecting more paint. Start painting.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

I used to want to be a film composer. I took a lot of steps to become a master in my field.

A mentor asked if I wanted to compete with eight other composers in California fighting for the same work. A question I never asked before.

It is okay to change the goal.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

We track our work output. We track our fitness. But we don't track our relationships. We don't track our community involvement. We don't track our spiritual practice. You're already experiencing the data. You're just not tracking it.

[Jason Dzamba @jasondzamba]

There are two different goal types, and most people lump them together.

That is why they lose motivation after a short time.

When you learn to differentiate the two, you can break your goals into components.

That gives you the language around your goals.