{"id":621,"date":"2011-03-01T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=621"},"modified":"2011-03-01T13:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:02:29","slug":"bootcamp-day-seven-the-10000-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/members\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Bootcamp &#8211; Day Seven: The $10,000 Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ve been enjoying the bootcamp so far. Tomorrow<br \/>\nat 10am PST, I&#8217;m opening Learning on Steroids again&#8211;the<br \/>\nultimate system for learning faster and achieving more.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of questions, I wanted to<br \/>\nquickly answer a few before I conclude with the $10,000<br \/>\nidea.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How much does it cost?<\/p>\n<p>A: $14 per month. There&#8217;s no commitment to future months.<br \/>\nMany of my students have stuck around for over a year,<br \/>\nbut if money is tight you can definitely stay in for a<br \/>\nmonth or two, focus hard and graduate.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a 60-day money-back guarantee, so you can try<br \/>\nit out risk-free.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How much time will it take?<\/p>\n<p>A: The program is designed to SAVE you time. Most of the<br \/>\ntactics you can train them while you&#8217;re already studying.<\/p>\n<p>Q: How is it different from your free stuff?<\/p>\n<p>A: The program contains dozens of tactics I have never<br \/>\nshared before. In addition, we go into a lot more depth on<br \/>\nsome of the bigger tactics like metaphors and w\/d goals.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the $10,000 idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Could a Simple Suggestion Be Worth $10,000?<\/p>\n<p>The initial idea for Weekly\/Daily Goals came from a story<br \/>\nI first heard told by Zig Ziglar:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A young consultant approached one of the nation&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\nsteel executives at the beginning of the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p>He told the executive that he had an idea that would<br \/>\nmake him an even richer man than he already was.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly the steel executive was skeptical. But he was<br \/>\nintrigued so he heard the young man out.<\/p>\n<p>The idea was this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Each night, before you go to bed, write down the six most<br \/>\nimportant things for you to accomplish that day. When you<br \/>\nwake up the next morning, begin working on #1.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you never get to item #2, you can sleep knowing<br \/>\nyou did your best and couldn&#8217;t have been more productive<br \/>\nusing any other method.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>After this, he told the steel executive to try the idea<br \/>\nfor a few weeks and if he felt it was useful, to send him<br \/>\na cheque with whatever he felt the idea was worth.<\/p>\n<p>Six weeks later the man received a cheque for $10,000.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now Weekly\/Daily Goals is a little different than the<br \/>\nfabled list of six, but they both have the same property:<br \/>\nthey allow you to focus mercilessly on what matters now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Common Stumbling Points with Weekly\/Daily Goals<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips for making your weekly\/daily goals<br \/>\nsystem stick:<\/p>\n<p>TIP #1: Start with *easier* daily goals lists<\/p>\n<p>A common mistake I see is people grossly overestimating<br \/>\nhow much they actually accomplish on a given day. I suggest<br \/>\ninstead starting with easier days you can definitely finish<br \/>\nand then get progressively harder.<\/p>\n<p>TIP #2: Don&#8217;t add tasks to your daily list<\/p>\n<p>Another mistake is feeling a list is &#8220;too easy&#8221; and then<br \/>\nadding more work. For the most part, this is a bad idea.<br \/>\nThe power of this system is that you *can&#8217;t* do more work,<br \/>\nso you remain ruthlessly focused on the task ahead.<\/p>\n<p>TIP #3: Keep a calendar to store deadlines.<\/p>\n<p>Just having a weekly list isn&#8217;t enough to catch all your<br \/>\ntasks. Calendar&#8217;s are helpful for storing larger projects,<br \/>\ndeadlines and events that don&#8217;t fit neatly into the system.<\/p>\n<p>TIP #4: Make all work &#8220;checkmarkable&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t do any task you can&#8217;t say with certainty whether you<br \/>\nare finished. Don&#8217;t put &#8220;Study&#8221; as a task, instead write<br \/>\n&#8220;Read Chapters 1-3&#8221; or &#8220;Create a notes summary&#8221;. All work<br \/>\nshould be able to be checkmarked off your list.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for following along during the bootcamp. Today is<br \/>\nthe last official day of the bootcamp, but tomorrow I have<br \/>\none more video module about taking action.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve enjoyed this free week, make sure you get a spot<br \/>\nwhen we open Learning on Steroids tomorrow. There are only<br \/>\n500 seats and registration will only be open for 72 hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, I hope you&#8217;ve been enjoying the bootcamp so far. 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