✅ Defining optimal

A lot of entrepreneurs get frustrated that their day didn’t go as well as they hoped. That their day was suboptimal. Yet, they never defined what optimal was.

How can you achieve, or fail to achieve, optimal performance if you haven’t defined what optimal means to you? Knowing what optimal means to each of us is so important that my core offer is named after it.

If you don't know what a good day looks like, or an optimal process, you can never achieve it. This often leaves you feeling unfulfilled, hollow, wasted.

As Tim Ferriss pointed out, the word optimal is bandied about with much fanfare.

“Your progesterone might fall within the normal range, but it’s not optimal.”

The important question is rarely asked: optimal for what?

Triathlon training? Extending lifespan 40%? Increasing bone density 20%? Having sex three times a day?

“Optimal” depends entirely on what your goal is, and that goal helps to be numerically precise. Optimal is usable, but only when the “for what” is clear.

Define what optimal is for you, then work towards it.

What outcome are we optimising for in our work - money, time, legacy, status, fame, family?

What would the realistically optimal day of working towards that outcome look like?

We are unlikely to achieve optimal every day, but we can never achieve optimal unless we know what optimal is.

The industrialist and the fisherman, a lesson on differing optimisation

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Forget about peak performance. Would your results improve if you simply focused on being reliable in the normal moments? Show up when it's easy to skip. Do the fundamentals and do them well. And so on. Before you make it complicated, remember there are always simple improvements waiting to be made. - James Clear (Author of Atomic Habits)

Optimal doesn’t mean the same as perfection or peak performance. Sometimes optimal is doing a lower level more consistently. Nail the fundamentals.

Showing up daily, what people think it means vs what it actually means

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