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Jonathan Courtney

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

So you obviously don't want to share yours, basically. I don't want to share mine.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Share it with us, Greg. Okay, guys. If you like and comment, share it with us, Greg. Then in the next episode, Greg will share his personal mission statement. No, but it's interesting, a lot of Americans say things like, you know, that's sort of like my purpose or my mission. It's very rare to hear people outside of the US saying these sentences.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Share it with us, Greg. Okay, guys. If you like and comment, share it with us, Greg. Then in the next episode, Greg will share his personal mission statement. No, but it's interesting, a lot of Americans say things like, you know, that's sort of like my purpose or my mission. It's very rare to hear people outside of the US saying these sentences.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

Share it with us, Greg. Okay, guys. If you like and comment, share it with us, Greg. Then in the next episode, Greg will share his personal mission statement. No, but it's interesting, a lot of Americans say things like, you know, that's sort of like my purpose or my mission. It's very rare to hear people outside of the US saying these sentences.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so, yeah, it's interesting for me just sort of trying to understand it and trying to see if that makes sense for me. I like the idea of having like, so what I have is a post-it in my kitchen, which says 2024. Do you actually, can I go get it just to show you? Or is that an annoying thing for me to do right now?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so, yeah, it's interesting for me just sort of trying to understand it and trying to see if that makes sense for me. I like the idea of having like, so what I have is a post-it in my kitchen, which says 2024. Do you actually, can I go get it just to show you? Or is that an annoying thing for me to do right now?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so, yeah, it's interesting for me just sort of trying to understand it and trying to see if that makes sense for me. I like the idea of having like, so what I have is a post-it in my kitchen, which says 2024. Do you actually, can I go get it just to show you? Or is that an annoying thing for me to do right now?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

All right. Just because it's so it's so like not a mission, but it's like I'll just do it. I'll be back. I'm not wearing any underwear or pants. So I'm just sure. So at the end of 2023, I think it was the 29th of December, my girlfriend and I did like a. It's this Tim Ferriss thing. It's called the end of year review, something like that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

All right. Just because it's so it's so like not a mission, but it's like I'll just do it. I'll be back. I'm not wearing any underwear or pants. So I'm just sure. So at the end of 2023, I think it was the 29th of December, my girlfriend and I did like a. It's this Tim Ferriss thing. It's called the end of year review, something like that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

All right. Just because it's so it's so like not a mission, but it's like I'll just do it. I'll be back. I'm not wearing any underwear or pants. So I'm just sure. So at the end of 2023, I think it was the 29th of December, my girlfriend and I did like a. It's this Tim Ferriss thing. It's called the end of year review, something like that.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And then we created our goals for next year based on how that works. It's kind of embarrassing to show this because it's not like a public thing that I've ever showed, but just to show you, I think maybe my version of what we're talking about, which is very much within the year. So it looks like this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And then we created our goals for next year based on how that works. It's kind of embarrassing to show this because it's not like a public thing that I've ever showed, but just to show you, I think maybe my version of what we're talking about, which is very much within the year. So it looks like this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And then we created our goals for next year based on how that works. It's kind of embarrassing to show this because it's not like a public thing that I've ever showed, but just to show you, I think maybe my version of what we're talking about, which is very much within the year. So it looks like this.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so it's like three questions for myself and then like one physical activity that I am just going to lock into. It sounds like a weird thing. The questions are, number one, am I optimizing for state? And that just means my state of mind. Am I living my life in a way that's going to optimize for how I'm feeling? Because when I feel good and when I feel excited, everything else works better.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so it's like three questions for myself and then like one physical activity that I am just going to lock into. It sounds like a weird thing. The questions are, number one, am I optimizing for state? And that just means my state of mind. Am I living my life in a way that's going to optimize for how I'm feeling? Because when I feel good and when I feel excited, everything else works better.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

And so it's like three questions for myself and then like one physical activity that I am just going to lock into. It sounds like a weird thing. The questions are, number one, am I optimizing for state? And that just means my state of mind. Am I living my life in a way that's going to optimize for how I'm feeling? Because when I feel good and when I feel excited, everything else works better.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

A really simple example of that is being very, very cautious of... things like alcohol, not sleeping, over-caffeinating. I have my own list of things that cause my state to turn bad, also social media. Am I lowering noise and complexity? So this is something where just thinking about like, you and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago as well.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

A really simple example of that is being very, very cautious of... things like alcohol, not sleeping, over-caffeinating. I have my own list of things that cause my state to turn bad, also social media. Am I lowering noise and complexity? So this is something where just thinking about like, you and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago as well.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

A really simple example of that is being very, very cautious of... things like alcohol, not sleeping, over-caffeinating. I have my own list of things that cause my state to turn bad, also social media. Am I lowering noise and complexity? So this is something where just thinking about like, you and I talked about this a couple of weeks ago as well.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
80 mins of advice to level up your life with lifehacks

I actually shut down my holding company after realizing that even though it makes sense from a financial perspective, the noise and complexity, even though it wouldn't, for example, be a problem for you, for me, that overwhelms me massively. So am I lowering noise and complexity? And then the last one is kind of interesting. Am I being radically integral