 why hustling is overrated. Yes, you heard that correctly. I, Amir, said hustling is overrated. Now, before you go and say, Amir, you are going backwards on what you said before, hold up. Hustling, let's first define what hustling is. I truly believe hustling in my definition is a strong, dedicated work ethic. Other people look at hustling as in how many hours you put in one day. For example, I put in 18 hours a day. Now, think about this. The reason why you're hustling in the first place is to, right, what is it? To get a result, to grow your business, to get the body you want, to get more money, to get the relationship, whatever it may be, it doesn't matter. There is an end result from that hustling. You're putting in time to get something back. Therefore, wouldn't you like to put in the most effective time in to get the maximal gains? And this goes to the Pareto principle or the Archimedes lever, the 80-20 rule, putting in 20% of precise action to get 80% maximum return. So, these are a couple things you have to take into consideration and I'm going to tell you a little bit of things that work for me. Maybe you can get some inspiration from that and adopt that into your regiment, into your protocol. But let's look at this. Most people view other individuals and they're like, oh my god, I have to work 18 hours a day. I got to wake up super early in the morning, work till midnight, yadda, yadda, yadda. I have to do that. That's the mindset people have. First, what you need to do is you need to reverse engineer all your goals and create things into simple models. I love to say and kiss. Keep it simple, stupid, right? Don't overcomplicate things. So, Gary Keller's book, the One Thing Fantastic Book, I recommend it. Get that book. If you look in Gary Keller's book, he talks about that one thing. You reverse engineering your goals from, let's say, 90 days. So, I'm going to kind of summarize the book and make it simple for you. You look at the whole year, then you break down the year into quarters and then within that quarter, you have probably like one or two primary goals you want to reach. Now, that's three months, 90 days. Each month, you have a goal you want to reach. Then each week, you have a goal that you want to reach. Then each day, you have a goal that you want to reach. Now, you know the goals you want to reach. You need to reverse engineer how you're going to get to those goals. And this is where the 80-20 rule comes in. What activities and what tactics, or I kind of like to put into the four levels that I use, high-level strategy or high-level thinking strategy, tactics and execution. So, I look at these four different pillars and at each single goal that I want to achieve, I go through the check mark of these pillars. What I have to do for high-level thinking to computize and create the template for this. Then what is a strategy to execute this template? Then who's going to execute the strategy? Then who's going to oversee everything? Okay? And then basically, that's it. You've now reverse engineered your 90-day, that quarterly plan, which equals out to that yearly plan, down to the weekly plan, down to the daily plan. So, now you know that every single day, you know, this is what you got to do. So, that takes care of kind of like the mathematics, the schemas, the formulations, the very, you know, pen-to-paper type of formula. That's on that side. The second part comes in with you, individually. See, a lot of people, they function differently. For me, I'm a morning person. I wake up at 4.45, 5 o'clock, straight out of bed. I don't know, I don't need any morning primer. I get to work ASAP and my mind is primed from 5 a.m. to lunch. I chunk off that time. I get my one thing that I have to do that day, the most important task and I finish it in the morning. Everything's chunks. So, for example, let's say today, I have to make sure that I got three pieces of content out for a business. Nothing else matters. I don't give a shit about emails. I don't care about any other business meetings. Today, this morning, is set for that, okay? And I give myself a very short window of opportunity and that window is maybe two, three hours. There's a law called the Parkinson's Law. If the time is allocated, the time will be filled. It's the same thing like you say, hey, Amir, go do that by tomorrow. I guarantee you I can do that by today. So, if you give time for this one task, that time will be filled and that's called Parkinson's Law and it's no good. It wastes time. So, I know me, I'm a morning individual. I wake up, I get to work, I crunch it out till lunchtime. Then my brain kind of slows down from a robotic model into a more creative model. So, the rest of my afternoon, I have for emails, for phone call, for business meetings, creative work, etc. It's not really growth. It's more nurturing. That's why I'm programmed. Other people are flip-flopped. In the morning, they're very creative. They can write, they can figure things out, work in their business from an existential point of view and view everything. And then in the evening, they're like robots, hardcore, right in the business working. But the key, the key over here is knowing who you are, knowing how you are primed, how you're programmed, both physically, mentally and spiritually. And going full circle, coming back to the hustling thing is, yo, hustling is important. It's strong work ethic. No one pushing you, not you taking motivation from anybody else internally comes from inside, but also programming your hustling for real success. Fuck working 18 hours a day if I can't enjoy this. See, I got a beautiful path close to my condo, two seconds away. I walk it every day. Bliss, you know, Joseph Campbell talks it. Follow your bliss. Spend at least one to two hours a day enjoying what you love. I love walking. Walking is my meditation. I can walk for two days straight with no headset. Just walk and let my mind think, this is my bliss for me. So what's the point of working all these hours if you can't enjoy life? Remember, it's about the results that you get. It's not about how much time you put in every single day. What happens if I tell you, instead of working 18 hours a day, you can work two hours a day or three hours a day and get the same results? Would you accept that offer? I think you would. Then what you do for the rest of the time? Well, you maximize more returns. So now if you can get two, three hours of results that would take you 18, imagine out doing a couple of things so you can do 10 times more and get 10 times more ROI. So keep in mind over here. Don't follow the herd. How everyone says, just hustle and grind it out. Like I said, I'm all for it. But really know thyself. Reverse engineer your goals. Remember the Pareto's principle, the 80-20. Our committee's lever and the Parkinson's laws. Okay? Keep that in mind, guys. Till we meet again. Peace.