Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life

/Use the 5-Step Process to Get What You Want Out of Life

Push through to completion.

1. Great planners who don’t execute their plans go nowhere. 2. Good work habits are vastly underrated. 3. Establish clear metrics to make certain that you are following your plan. Source: Ray Dalio's Book Principles

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Design a plan.

1. Go back before you go forward. 2. Think about your problem as a set of outcomes produced by a machine. 3. Remember that there are typically many paths to achieving your goals. 4. Think of your plan as being like a

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Diagnose problems to get at their root causes.

"1. Focus on the “what is” before deciding “what to do about it.” 2. Distinguish proximate causes from root causes. 3. Recognize that knowing what someone (including you) is like will tell you what you can expect from them." - Ray Dalio

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Identify and don’t tolerate problems.

1. View painful problems as potential improvements that are screaming at you. 2. Don’t avoid confronting problems because they are rooted in harsh realities that are unpleasant to look at. 3. Be specific in identifying your problems. 4. Don’t mistake a cause

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Have clear goals.

1. Prioritize: While you can have virtually anything you want, you can’t have everything you want. 2. Don’t confuse goals with desires. 3. Decide what you really want in life by reconciling your goals and your desires. 4. Don’t mistake the trappings

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