How a radical change in scenery can 10x your progress.

Tell me if this sounds like you...

You have this one big goal you're working towards.

You have developed:

• Systems

• Routines

• Schedules

That help you be more productive.

Flow states come easily and you put in loads of time & effort.

But something's off, you can feel it.

It feels like you're missing a piece of the puzzle.

Like you're fumbling around in a dark room trying to find the light switch.

You are wondering: "Hmm, isn't there a better way to approach this? What am I missing here?".

But since the obvious things don't seem to work, what is it then?

You need an epiphany, a flashlight, the whisper of a genius angel in your ear.

What even is the problem here?

Let's find out together...

Firstly, we need to understand something:

Ⅰ) Humans are creatures of habit

Most of the time we're on "autopilot mode", and we don't even notice.

We tend to stay in the same environments once we settle...

And we tend to make them as comfortable as we can for ourselves.

It's easy to get lost in that.

The more you settle into one environment...

The more results start diminishing.

Routines and schedules can quickly turn into a rigid prison.

And you don't even realize you're trapped because you've built it up slowly over time!

There are only so many things you can learn from being in the same places.

Around the same people.

Inside of the same routines.

And the longer you do something, the harder it gets to break out of it.

This gets especially nasty when you're conditioning yourself to do the wrong things!

Your environment narrows your perspective on life.

If you're only collecting the dots in one and the same place, (surprise) you won't learn anything new!

Life is a delicate balancing act.

Having too much stability is just as bad as having too much chaos.

Routines are great, but only if you supplement them with the occasional dose of chaos.

So what's today's big enemy?

Comfort.

Ⅱ) Comfort is a silent killer

It's always there, slowly creeping up as time goes on.

The deadly thing about comfort is that you don't realize the damage it's doing.

Unless you make it an effort to find out on your own.

You don't realize how much you're missing out on...

Because you don't even know it's out there!

And I don't mean comfort in a sense of chilling on your couch.

No, there are different meanings to it, different types of comfort.

The ones that matter today:

• Habitual comfort (routines)

• Environmental comfort (places)

• Situational comfort (what you engage in)

You can push your limits and work hard, and that's uncomfortable.

But if you are doing that from your regular workspace?

 Then you're still in the comfort of familiarity.

You need to leave your little bubble of self-absorption every once in a while if you want to make some real progress.

How often have we found ourselves thinking "I just need to do more of this better".

That's not always the answer.

Ⅲ) Success is counterintuitive

Instead of measuring the benefits of what you're currently doing...

Measure the downsides of what you're not doing.

I want you to stop looking at what your regular schedule is producing...

And I want you to think of what it's not producing.

Sometimes the solution is the exact opposite of what you think it is.

It can be easy to fool yourself into thinking that your daily routine will always be more productive the more you develop & perfect it.

And while that may generally be true, I would like to introduce you to something different.

Something counterintuitive:

Radical changes in environment.

Not too long ago, I was stuck.

I wasn't seeing the progress I would like to see.

Not with my growth, not towards making money.

The problem was that I had made doing the wrong things a habit.

My entire approach was faulty.

And how would you know if you're spinning around in circles in your own bubble?

So what did I do to fix this?

I went to Switzerland!

"Bro, what...? How does that fix anything!?"

*Ahem*... Remember, success is counterintuitive.

Let's start getting to the bottom of this then.

What shall we start with?

Mindset. Obviously.

1. Change your mindset

Your state of mind is *literally* everything.

It's the lens through which you experience life itself.

How are you approaching life?

We're all living in the same world and the only difference between people that are miserable and the ones that are happy & successful... is mindset.

The key to mindset is to be open-minded.

See, the tricky thing is...

You've conditioned yourself into doing the wrong things.

If you're not seeing the success you want to see...

You're doing it wrong.

Period.

And how are you going to change that if you can't even admit it to yourself?

The first step is to be self-aware, to open your mind up to the possibility that you are indeed doing the wrong things.

And to do that, you have to stop lying to yourself.

If you keep your eyes & mind open, you'll find there's life-changing stuff to be found at every corner.

It's all a matter of having a student mindset and being humble enough to actually implement.

With the right mindset, you've opened yourself up to learning.

Learning is the ultimate key that unlocks everything else.

Now it's time to switch it up.

2. Change your environment

There's 2 things to notice here:

a) New environments force you to adapt

Learning is behavior change, nothing else.

If your behavior doesn't change, you have learned exactly 0.

You are learning when you are forced to adapt to a new situation.

You have to do things differently to not hit against a wall.

Be like a chameleon.

Let the environment be your master and subdue yourself to it.

Be its best student.

b) Change your actions, change your thinking

When you do new things, you create new neural networks.

Those are systems in your brain that remember how to do a specific action.

And that in turn sets you up to act differently.

It expands the repertoire of weapons you can use on the battlefield of everyday life.

Success is about dropping weaker weapons for stronger, better ones as you evolve.

3. Elevate your perspective on life

Now you own a set of new qualities.

Something to add to your worldview, your perspective on life.

You have expanded your mindset, your thinking, and your abilities.

Aim to replace things that are true with things that are even more true.

Why do I say it like that?

Because "truth"(in this sense) is subjective.

Whatever gets the best results for your current situation, is the most "true".

Now, it's important to mention that the whole system changes when you replace single elements.

Not just the elements itself.

Life is an infinite net of interconnected parts and wholes.

Put some effort into thinking about how the relationships inside and outside of that system change as a result.

4. Change your behavior

I will say it again:

All of the previous steps were cool and all...

But worthless if you keep doing the same stuff.

If your behavior hasn't changed, you didn't learn anything.

You're back home now.

What key lessons & insights did you return with?

What will you be doing differently?

For me it was a total change in my approach to Twitter & one-person business.

I had to get out of my own head and into other people's heads instead.

( Here's the whole story if you're interested in hearing more: )

So I started putting myself out there with:

1. Free consulting calls

2. Massive amounts of engagement

And it worked, big time!

Back to you now...

This is your call.

If you want to get genius epiphanies on what you should do...

Give yourself a radical change in scenery every once in a while.

It will do wonders for your mindset & creativity.

And therefore, for your success.

You will be able to see life clearer and from an elevated, top-down perspective.

Leave schedule prison behind every once in a while.

Don't get too comfortable with it.

Temporarily change up your:

• Schedule

• Environment

• Daily activities

Do something creazy, flip it all upside down!

That was it for this week.

Hope you enjoyed reading, I'll see you around next time ;)

-Tym Hartwich