Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵

Building 18 startups in 18 months...for others.

This month: a text-based personal brand agency for founders and executives.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

I've spent 10 years coaching 300+ people.

They arrive wanting more money.

They leave fulfilled and ever-growing.

Here are the 8 areas of life they focus on:

Hope it's helpful to someone.

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[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@peer_prima Read this Per: https://t.co/PeDZaclH3g

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@hasanmorshed_ Good luck on both fronts then!

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@hasanmorshed_ Looks amazing, Hasan!

What's holding you back? (since you mention "thinking of")

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

Today's to-do list has 10 tasks.

Who decided this?

Past me.

Who can change this?

Present me.

Present me remembers:
- Simplicity endures
- Simplicity prevails
- Simplicity accelerates
- Simplicity relaxes

Today's to-do list now has 1 task.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexHormozi Unless you realize that their real dream for you is to be happy, healthy, kind and/or prosperous.

All of which can be achieved via a path of your choosing. They might be rough on you when you start out, but will come around when you've advanced far enough.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexHormozi Ask not "who controls what has happened to me."
Ask "who controls what happens to me."

Moving forward everything is your choice.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexHormozi The more people I help for free, the more I find this to be true.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexHormozi Don't bigger deals become available (and remain the "same work") because your skill has improved?

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@peer_prima Welcome back :)

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@RyanMoran @AlexAndBooks_ Well-deserved, Ryan, since you wrote a great book!

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@amorwriter Agreed and I hope this question helps you find your way, Amor :)

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@peer_prima I like to remind myself of similar situations or situations in which I experienced similar feelings in the past.

With the knowledge I have now, what occurred/I felt back then is now, often, insignificant and gives me a chuckle.

It helps me remember everything works out ;)

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@amorwriter When it takes more energy than it gives.

If you find it truly important, the curiosity/spark comes back and you simply took a break.
If not, you've moved to something better.

Rationally, I like to ask: is this something I can (and want to be) world class at?

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@takezopure Ask yourself:
- Is this worth it?
- What is the highest and best use of my time?

Should help you be "busy" with the right things in life :)

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@AlexHormozi I'd extend this:
- Which resource are you willing to give up (= invest)?
- Which opportunities are you willing to give up (= forego)?

The first involves a loss with expectation to gain, the second is merely a hypothetical that requires a decision (at 0 actual cost).

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexHormozi This feels like a roundabout way of doing things.

If you're able to properly explain the why behind the first thing, there's no need to do this.

I do agree with the original premise: better to do 1 thing at a time. Don't even mention the 2nd to improve focus.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@david_perell Love the idea...but curious how you'd decide which commentary to add/leave out.

[Jim Bouman | ジム 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇯🇵 @jjpbouman]

@AlexAndBooks_ Simplicity/focus is a problem that has plagued us since ancient times.

I have yet to find a solution, but found it helpful to ask myself often: is this the highest and best use of my time?

And every week I review what energizes & drains me, then eliminate smth.