To create a movement, you need 3 things:<ol><li>An expert or guide</li><li>A new opportunity</li><li>A future-based cause that unites the tribe</li></ol>The expert offers someone a new opportunity and then guides them to a result with a future-based cause.

Creating Your Movement

The 5 phases to become an expert:1. The Dreamer: Fascination + Mastery = Passion2. Reporter: learn everything about your topic from multiple points of view3. Framework Creator: identify patterns for success and build your own frameworks to help facilitate that success for others. Your product is likely just a piece of that framework4. Servant: test your framework on yourself first and then on others to perfect it and ensure it produces the same (or better) results5. Expert Guide: start leading others to their destination. Your results are your certification

Finding Your Voice

1. Create your framework hypothesis: make a bullet list that you would want to teach yourself before you began this journey. Organize it into an outline in an order that makes sense2. Test your framework hypothesis on yourself3. Give your framework a proprietary name: give it an easy name so people can remember the process by the name itself4. Create a description: “(Framework name) My X-step framework/system/process) for (result).”

How to Create Frameworks

People will do anything for those who encourage their dreams, justify their failures, allay their fears, confirm their suspicions, and help them throw rocks at their enemies.

Step #0—Introduce the frameworkTell the audience the name and description of your frameworkStep #1—Share how you either learned it (your knowledge) or earned it (through your experiences) Step #2—Share the strategy (the what you do) Give the outline of the framework.Step #3—Teach the tactics (the how you do it)This is where most of the content is taught.   Step #4—Show them how it works for othersShowing them that it didn’t just work for you, but it also worked for people just like them, is the key to getting them to believe in your framework.

Teaching Your Frameworks

The 3 core markets or desires that every product is marketed through:<ul><li>Health</li><li>Wealth</li><li>Relationships</li></ul>When people purchase a product or service, they’re hoping to get a certain result in one of these three areas of their lives.Many products can be marketed toward getting a result in more than one desire, but your marketing message can focus only on one of them.

The Three Core Markets or Desires

<ul><li>“The Diehard” is in love with the current product. Switching a Diehard to a new product requires a major identity shift.</li><li>“The Satisfied” uses the product they bought but isn’t in love with it. Switching the Satisfied to a new product requires a significant price or value benefit.</li><li>“The Frustrated” also use the product they bought, but they hate it. They’re actively seeking a better product that can fit their desires. Switching a Frustrated person to a new product requires finding them, gaining their trust, and giving them a small amount of education.</li></ul>

The 3 Core Groups of People in Each Marketplace

<ol><li>Rather than trying to improve on someone else’s product or service, create your own new opportunity to set yourself apart from the competition.</li><li>If you want people to buy, you have to show them how your product or service will increase their status.</li><li>When marketing, focus on as many status increases as you can that apply to your product or service.</li><li>Your goal is to load up the status-increase side and minimize the status-decrease side.</li></ol>Factors that elevate status:<ul><li>Appearance of intelligence</li><li>Appearance of wealth, power, or happiness</li><li>Physical appearance</li><li>Style</li></ul>

The New Opportunity

Step #1: What is the result your dream customers are trying to achieve?Create a new way for your dream customers to achieve their desired results Step #2: What is the“vehicle” they are currently using to try to get that result?Write down all the other vehicles that your dream customers have been using (without success).Step #3—The Opportunity SwitchProvide an entirely new vehicle for your dream customers to get to their desired result Step #4—The Opportunity StackYou should offer only one opportunity switch (new opportunity).

How to Create a New Opportunity

Our job as an expert and guide for our audience is to help cast a vision for what is possible and bring our people to higher ground, to move them from where they are to where they want to be.Your job as the expert is to guide your dream customers on a journey of both achievement and transformation.Step #1: Launch Your “Platform” to Be Your Dream Customer’s Guide to the ResultStep #2: Give Them an Identity ShiftStep #3: Create Milestone Awards (Journey of Achievement)﻿Step #4: Unite with a Social Mission (Journey of Transformation)

The Future-Based Cause

Your goal isn’t to try to sell anyone anything. Your goal is to guide them to their own decision.Epiphany Bridge: a story that takes people through the emotional experience that got you excited about the new opportunity you’re presenting. Your epiphany is the aha moment when you learned about your new opportunityYou have to step away from the technobabble, meet your dream customers where they are, and help them feel the emotion you felt when you had your epiphany so they can move with you.

Creating Belief: The Epiphany Bridge

<ol><li>Oversimplification: speak at about a third-grade level</li><li>“Kinda like” bridge: if you need to teach a concept that’s past a third-grade level, say It’s kinda like…” and relate it to something customers already know</li><li>Making them feel: add feelings and emotions. Your customer needs to be in the same state that you were in when you received your aha moment</li></ol>

Effective Storytelling

The plot of every good story has three simple elements:<ul><li>Character</li><li>Desire</li><li>Conflict</li></ul>In order for the character to go on a journey to achieve his desire, he has to separate from his ordinary world.During this separation, it’s essential that the storyteller gets the audience to care about the hero. We do this through two things:<ol><li>Build rapport with the hero</li><li>Introduce the desire</li></ol>

The Hero’s Two Journeys

We build rapport with the hero by giving our hero at least two of the following things:A victim of some outside force, so we want to root for them<ul><li>In jeopardy, so we worry about them</li><li>Likable, so we want to be with them</li><li>Funny, so we connect with them</li><li>Powerful, so we want to be like them</li></ul>

Build Rapport with The Hero

Every story is about a journey either toward pleasure or away from pain.There are four core desires that drive most heroes:<ul><li>Win: the heart of someone they love, or fame, money, a competition, or prestige.</li><li>Retrieve: wants to obtain something and bring it back.</li><li>Escape: desires to get away from something that’s upsetting or causing pain.</li><li>Stop: bad things from happening.</li></ul>

Introduce the Desire

The villain’s role in the story helps us root for the hero to achieve his desire.The villain can be a person, or it could also be a false belief system. Our job is to vilify the belief system and defeat it so we can give our audience the truth.We are all rooting for the hero to accomplish this journey. While this journey is what drives the story forward, it’s the second journey that matters the most. In fact, in many stories, the hero never actually achieves their end desire.Or if they do, they give it up for the real transformational journey that they’ve been on throughout the story.

The Journey, the Conflict, and the Villain

<ul><li>During the journey, the hero meets a mentor or guide to help them along the way.</li><li>For our purposes with storytelling, the guide is the person who gives us the epiphany and the frameworks.</li><li>The journey then becomes the hero using the plans/framework they receive from the guide to defeat the villain and achieve their desire.</li></ul>

The Mentor/Expert/Guide

As the hero finally ends their journey, they’re transformed into a new person.Sometimes heroes get what they have been trying to achieve throughout the story, and oftentimes they don’t.This is the hero’s second journey. Who have they become and how have they evolved? This journey is the death of their old identity and their rebirth as a new person. This invisible journey is the real journey that our hero has been on the whole time.

The Achievement

Our only real goal in any of our marketing is to identify the false beliefs and false stories our customers are telling themselves—the ones that are keeping them from success—and to rewrite these stories inside their minds.The 4 core stories to break false beliefs:1. Your origin story with the new opportunity. This is the Epiphany Bridge story that tells how you discovered your new opportunity2. Vehicle framework story (how you learned or earned it).3. Internal beliefs story.4. External beliefs story.

The Four Core Stories

1. Chains of false belief. List all the false beliefs your customers might have related to your new opportunity, followed by the vehicle frameworks, their internal false beliefs, and their external false beliefs2. Experiences. Next to each false belief that you listed, write out what type of experience they may have gone through that gave them that false belief3. Stories. Next to each experience, write down the story that the experience created in their mind4. New Epiphany Bridges. Think about your own Epiphany Bridge story for each of these false beliefs

Building a story inventory

<ol><li>“I don’t believe this vehicle (your new opportunity) is the right vehicle for me.” What tangible thing can you create to help them change their belief? </li><li>“I believe this is the right vehicle for some people, but I don’t think that I could be successful with it.” They don’t believe in themselves. So you need to create something specific to help them overcome these false beliefs about themselves.</li><li>“I believe that I could have success, but I have an external force holding me back from success.” Create something to help eliminate or minimize each excuse.</li></ol>

The 3 Reasons (False Beliefs) Why People Don’t Buy from You

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"Best book ever for marketing your business. And not just for online marketing. This book goes into so much detail and is perfect for any business. How to tell stories to make sales. How to be the EXPERT in your Niche." -- J. Paterson, Amazon Customer "Jam packed with step by step advice to create a sales webinar, generate more leads, and close high ticket coaching clients. " -- JulzB, Amazon Customer "This book is incredible for Marketers, Sales people, Entrepreneurs and Online Influencers." -- Luca Nuñez, Amazon Customer "I lost $$thousands more running ads trying to figure out what I was missing... until I came across this book." -- Nicole, Amazon Customer Find Your Message, Build A Tribe, And Change The World... Founder of Click Funnels, Russell Brunson shares how he's sold close to $400 million by building a mass movement of entrepreneurs who paid to hear his message. It doesn't matter what message, product, or service you are selling online, if you don't build a mass movement of people who will pay to hear your mes- sage, it's unlikely you will achieve success. Expert Secrets Will Help You Too <li>Find your voice and give you the confidence to become a leader...</li> <li>Build a mass movement of people whose lives you can affect... <li>Make this calling a career, where people will pay you for your advice... Your message has the ability to change someone's life. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. It could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone's health, grow a company or more... But only if you know how to get it into the hands of the people whose lives you have been called to change. Expert Secrets will put your message into the hands of people who need it. Russell Brunson is a serial entrepreneur who started his first online company while he was wrestling at Boise State University. Within a year of graduating he had sold over a million dollars worth of his own products and services from his basement! For over 10 years now Russell has been starting and scaling companies online. He owns a software company, a supplement company, a coaching company, and is one of the top super affiliates in the world. Expert Secrets was created to help entrepreneurs around the world to start, promote and grow their companies online.

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Habits are automatic, learned behaviours that provide a quick answer to life’s puzzles.Without habits, you’d be paralysed by endless deliberation from the moment you woke each day – whether to shower then eat, or eat then shower, what to eat, what to wear, which route to take to work, or where to park.Habits can also be comforting. If you follow the same routines each day, then you mostly know what to expect. A downside to habits is that not only are some of them obviously unhealthy, but having too many can hamper your creativity and deprive you of serendipity.

Creature Of Habit

If you want to change, bear in mind that habits tend to be triggered by cues in the environment – that cereal box in the kitchen, the café on the way to work. That’s why holidays are such a great antidote. Put yourself in novel situations and you’re forced to think afresh rather than rely on old habits.

Changing Habits

As it turns out, there may be an advantage to always doing things the same way.

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The Japanese culture is rich and benevolent. We can make use of some of the concepts listed below to gain perspective in life and appreciate the holistic beauty and humanity imbibed in the surprising country.

Japan: Learning About A Holistic Life

<ul><li>Omoiyari: embed compassion in your life, work, and product design.</li><li>Ikigai: live with purpose and passion.</li><li>Wabi-sabi: be grateful, see beauty in imperfection.</li><li>Mottainai: embrace essentialism, and live sustainably.</li><li>Shin-Gi-Tai: keep a healthy body and a sound mind. They are the path to mastery.</li><li>Shu-Ha-Ri: learn the basics. Imitate, then innovate.</li><li>Kaizen: embrace change and strive for small and continuous improvements.</li><li>Mono no aware: detach from material things, outcomes, and old beliefs.</li><li>Omotenashi: give without expecting a reward. The world gives to the givers.</li><li>Ho-Ren-So: over-communicate.  </li></ul>

Key Takeaways

Omoiyari means caring and showing sincere consideration for others.Japanese fans made the headlines in 2018 when they tidied up a football stadium after the game.Omoiyari is also manifested in the designs of products. For example, Japanese hi-tech toilets have a warm seat, washer, and a sound to cover those ‘unpleasant’ noises.Practicing omoiyari is said to help build compassion and empathy toward others.

Omoiyari

Ikigai is the Japanese term for the state of well-being induced by devotion to enjoyable activities, which leads to a sense of fulfillment, according to Japanese psychologist Michiko Kumano.It is said that in Japan, people who have a purpose in life live longer.Your ikigai is what gets you up every morning and keeps you going.

Ikigai

Wabi-sabi is a concept that encourages us to embrace our imperfections and accept the natural cycle of life.
Everything in life, including us, is in a state of flux. Change is the only constant, everything is transient, and nothing is ever complete.
By practicing wabi-sabi, we are taught to be grateful and accepting and strive for excellence rather than perfection.

Wabi-sabi

Mottainai means respecting the resources we have, not wasting them, and using them with a sense of gratitude.Uniqlo uses “Mottainai: Old Clothes, New Life” to achieve zero waste.The concept invites us to be grateful and intentional about our actions and think of ways to help make this world more sustainable.

Mottainai

Shin-Gi-Tai translates as “mind, technique, and body.”Mind, technique, and body are the three elements for maximum performance used in martial arts.The framework can also be applied to building habits. The framework can be mapped to the Fogg Behavior Model, which is expressed as a short formula: Behavior = Motivation (Mind), Ability (Technique), and Prompt (Body).A healthy body and a sound mind are the foundation for developing and refining any skills.

Shin-Gi-Tai

Shu-Ha-Ri translates as “follow, breakaway, and transcend.”It is a way of thinking about how to learn and master a technique. There are 3 stages to acquiring knowledge:<ul><li>Shu: learn the basics by following the teaching of one master. Imitating the work of great masters also falls in this stage.</li><li>Ha: start experimenting, learn from masters, and integrate the learning into the practice.</li><li>Ri: This stage focuses on innovation and adapting the learning to different situations.</li></ul>Imitate, then innovate. You may want to check Clark Terry’s formulation of this model: Imitate, Assimilate, Innovate.

Shu-Ha-Ri 

Kaizen is a method of continuous improvement based on the theory that small, ongoing positive changes can be significant.Kaizen reminds us to let go of assumptions and perfectionism. It teaches us to take an iterative, progressive approach to change.This concept is vital to instill good habits and achieve excellence.

Kaizen

This concept describes having empathy towards things and their inevitable passing.This concept reminds us that nothing in life is permanent. We should willingly and gracefully let go of our attachments to transient things.

Mono no aware

Christel Takigawa, the ambassador for the Tokyo 2020 bid, popularized this concept in her speech to the International Olympic Committee.The concept is all about offering the best service without expecting a reward. It’s an important part of Japanese culture and deeply rooted in how Japanese society functions.

Omotenashi

Ho-Ren-So translates as “report, inform, and consult.”The concept forms the basis of all communication, collaboration, and healthy information sharing in a Japanese organization. It focuses on the roots of the communication line, streamlining the flow of information, and preventing issues from happening again.The Japanese argument is that the Ho-Ren-So, through collaboration and communication, strengthens subordinate employee relationships and provides a platform for the subordinate to learn from their superior.

Ho-Ren-So

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<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Intelligence is often thought of in terms of logic, thinking, and information processing. </li><li class="ql-align-justify"> Intelligence is one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. It can help you get a career in almost any field and make it your specialty.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Intelligence, in essence, is your ability to think logically, understand abstract concepts, and learn quickly.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">It’s also the ability to learn, unlearn and relearn when necessary. Highly intelligent people can learn quickly and retain information for a long time.</li></ul>

Defining Intelligence

<ul><li> The ability to learn and retain new information is the ultimate sign of high intelligence.</li><li>Peak intelligence occurs when a person’s mental abilities are at their highest, and they can produce the best results possible.</li><li>High intelligence is a skill, but it’s rare.</li><li>High intelligence makes you a better person because you will be able to see things from different perspectives and come up with more creative solutions to problems.</li></ul>

High Intelligence

Jeff Bezos says improve your ability to change your mind when you find better knowledge. Elon Musk says, “It is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree.”According to Steve Jobs, A lot of [what it means to be smart] is the ability to zoom out, like you’re in a city and you could look at the whole thing from the 80th floor down at the city. And while other people are trying to figure out how to get from point A to point B reading these stupid little maps, you could just see it in front of you. You can see the whole thing.

Intelligence Defined By Great Business Leaders

The 80th-floor intelligence is like improving your “bird’s eye view” skills. First, you have to learn how to learn deeper and broader to accumulate experience and better knowledge.You can only make better connections if you already have the right knowledge. So to improve your intelligence, gather more insight from great sources, choose your knowledge sources wisely, learn from people more intelligent than you, and read books you are willing to reread repeatedly.

The Macro View

<ul><li>Improving your intelligence is about stacking experience and applying lessons from good sources. You can only zoom out if you know what you are looking at. It’s hard, but it’s worth it.</li><li>Openness to wide and deep experiences outside your comfort zone will change your life. It will also improve your thinking lens.</li><li>Intellectual curiosity is key to peak intelligence. It’s also one of the best predictors of success. Curiosity is at the core of scientific discoveries.</li></ul>

The Thinking Lens

To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else

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<a href="https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/8-scientifically-proven-ways-to-achieve-better-suc.html">Happiness</a>, life satisfaction and the daily <a href="https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/28-easy-habits-these-high-achievers-practice-every-day.html">habits</a> of the most <a href="https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/26-books-highly-recommended-by-extreme-leaders.html">successful</a> people are topics which researchers love to study. And what they consistently find is that individuals who reach the end of their lives feeling fulfilled, grateful and devoid of regrets do so by being intentional with how they handled themselves and their relationships with others. Here are a handful of simple questions which can help you be honest with yourself about the directions you’re taking in this world.

Achieving Happiness

How will your life be different in a year?Think about what’s not perfect in your world, whether it’s a self-destructive habit, burdensome debt, loneliness or anything else. Considering that it takes 28 days to change an ingrained behavior, resolve now to invest one month in doing things differently.

Changing Your Life

What are you grateful for?Researchers have found that gratitude correlates with better mood and sleep, higher confidence, and lower fatigue and inflammation. Don't have anything to be thankful for? Start with electricity, running water and roof over your head.

Being Grateful

What nice thing can you do for someone else today?Give someone your spot in line, buy a co-worker his favorite morning drink, or call your mother and mindfully listen to her tell you about her week. Even little things can make a big difference in someone's day. Plus, researchers have found that performing acts of kindness make people feel happier.

Doing Something For Others

How much do you worry about what others think?You can't be present and your best self if you’re constantly asking yourself questions such as:  Did they think that I was smart? Did they think that I was successful? Did they think what I said was stupid? In truth, you can never really know what someone else thinks of you. So, instead of worrying about it, be your most confident self and concentrate on what you want to communicate, ask good questions and look people in the eyes

Other People's Perception

What are you doing to invest in your relationships?After following the lives of 268 Harvard undergraduate males from the classes of 1938 to 1940 for decades, psychiatrist George Vaillant concluded something you probably already know: Love is the key to happiness. Even if a man succeeded in work, amassed piles of money, and experienced good health, without loving relationships he wouldn't be happy. The longitudinal study showed happiness depends on two things: "One is love," he wrote. "The other is finding a way of coping with life that does not push love away.

Happiness Is In Good Relationships

What do you do for fun?If you have to think about this one, your work-life balance is probably askew. On your deathbed you will never say “I wish I would have worked more.” If working too much isn’t your problem you also will never say “I wish I would have watched more TV.”

What You Do For Having A Good Time

Are you comfortable in your own skin?Blogging for Tiny Buddha Melissa Dinwiddie tells the great story of having a miserable time during her high school class's senior trip to the beach, all because of she forgot a T-shirt, was worried her stomach wasn't flat enough and sweated all day under a sweatshirt. Meanwhile, a friend laughingly discovered she had forgotten to shave one of her legs and announced it to the entire bus. Her friend--who had a fantastic day in spite of her one hairy leg--proved that the people who have the most fun are comfortable in their own skin.

Being Yourself

Is anxiety something that dampens most of your days?Nearly one in five people has some kind of anxiety disorder, which is the most common mental illness in the U.S. If this is you, be honest and admit that 90 percent of what you worry about never comes to fruition. The other benefit to removing fear and anxiety from your life: You'll appear more confident, a character trait that breeds success.

Handling Anxiety

What have been your biggest mistakes?Chances are, your mistakes taught you valuable lessons which strengthened your character. Take some inspiration from J.K. Rowling, who said “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”

Making Mistakes

What will people say about you at your funeral?Think about the people you miss the most on this planet. Chances are, they were interested in other people’s lives, generous and set a good example. Work now to be someone who makes a positive impression.

When You Die

Be honest with yourself about the directions you're taking in this world.

10 Life-Changing Questions to Ask Yourself Today

There is no magic, one-size-fits all answer for building a happier, healthier, more productive life.

Most of us aren’t ready for all the expectations the world piles onto us, let alone the internal ones we have of ourselves that add to the pressure.And yet, somehow we deal with them. We learn, we struggle and over time, hopefully we get better. Of course we develop much of our approach to dealing with our internal and life’s external expectations subconsciously. Identifying the approach you’ve shaped so far is what The Four Tendencies are for.

Learning To Live While We Live

The Four Tendencies is a personality profile framework to help you understand how you and the people around you deal with their outer and inner expectations, so you can better manage your life, work and relationships.Understanding the four tendencies has three primary benefits:1. Self-mastery in getting yourself to do things.2. Influencing others to do things.3. Understanding why others do or don’t do things, which reduces frustration and increases harmony.

The Four Tendencies: The Premise

Upholders meet inner and outer expectations. They love rules, having a clear plan and are self-motivated and disciplined.  Questioners meet their own expectations, but resist outer ones. They need to see purpose and reason in anything they do.  Obligers meet other peoples’ expectations easily, but struggle with their own. The must be held accountable by a friend, coach or boss to get things done. Rebels defy both outer and inner expectations. Above all, they want to be free to choose and express their own individuality.

Upholders, Questioners, Obligers and Rebels

The largest group are Obligers. In theory, that’s not a problem, because it’s fairly easy for Obligers to make good use of their tendency. As long as they set up a good accountability system, they can be consistent and reach their goals.Obligers often face the biggest inner struggle, because they always put everyone else before themselves.  This can culminate in self-sabotage through little acts of defiance that end up hurting themselves more than anyone else, for example failing a test on purpose, just to prove a point.

Obligers: The Biggest and Hardest Group to Be In

An Upholder is someone who gets things done efficiently and makes time for themselves as well. An Upholders responds well to both other people’s expectations and their own personal ones so they’re very reliable at work and get all of their tasks done without any trouble.Some upholders can be so obedient that they don’t question what the rules are and follow them without thinking. These people often become snitches because of their need to obey authority. They also tend to resist change, which is why they’re not as successful in life as others who are more critical thinkers.

Upholders: People Who Are Good at Upholding Their Commitments and Responsibilities

Questioners turn all outer expectations into inner expectations if they believe its reasonable and efficient. Thus, Questioners only meet inner expectations.Questioners excel at being logical and efficient in everything they do. But they can also be viewed as annoying for their constant questioning unless they are very socially adept when asking those questions.Some random characteristics of Questioners: They hate waiting in line, they love spreadsheets, and they love sharing articles.

Questioners: The Quest For Logic And Purpose

Questioners have the self-direction of Upholders, the reliability of Obligers, and the authenticity of Rebels.

Rebels want to do what they want to do, in their own way, and on their own time. If someone else tells them to do the exact same thing, they will resist. They don’t even want to tell themselves to do something. They prefer to act from freedom, choice, and self-expression.Rebels might struggle with themselves because conventional advice doesn’t work for them. They are told to set goals and to get outer accountability by all the other tendencies, but those things actually make it harder for Rebels to do things because they feel a lack of freedom.

Rebels: The Misfits

People fit squarely into one of the four tendencies. If you want to get into more detail, then technically, people fit into one of 8 primary-secondary combinations:<ol><li>Upholder-Questioner</li><li>Upholder-Obliger</li><li>Obliger-Upholder</li><li>Obliger-Rebel</li><li>Questioner-Upholder</li><li>Questioner-Rebel</li><li>Rebel-Obliger</li><li>Rebel-Questioner</li></ol>For example, a Questioner-Upholder is more likely to meet outer expectations than a Questioner-Rebel.

The Four Tendencies: Multiple Traits

It’s easy to get carried away with personality types like these, but that’s dangerous. When you chisel your tendency in stone you might accept it, but you’ll also turn it into an excuse and stop believing that you can change.Instead of putting yourself in a box, use this concept to get to know yourself better, identify your strengths and weaknesses, and improve your relationships with others by being mindful of their tendencies.

Don’t Box Yourself in With This Framework, Use It to Understand Your Own Behavior Better

In this groundbreaking analysis of personality type, bestselling author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project Gretchen Rubin reveals the one simple question that will transform what you do at home, at work, and in life. During her multibook investigation into understanding human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question "How do I respond to expectations?" we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies: Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively. More than 600,000 people have taken her online quiz, and managers, doctors, teachers, spouses, and parents already use the framework to help people make significant, lasting change. The Four Tendencies hold practical answers if you've ever thought: • People can rely on me, but I can't rely on myself. • How can I help someone to follow good advice? • People say I ask too many questions. • How do I work with someone who refuses to do what I ask—or who keeps telling me what to do? With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative. It's far easier to succeed when you know what works for you.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Are you an Upholder, a Questioner, an Obliger, or a Rebel? From the author of Better Than Before and The Happiness Project comes a groundbreaking analysis of personality type that “will immediately improve every area of your life” (Melissa Urban, co-founder of the Whole30).   During her multibook investigation into human nature, Gretchen Rubin realized that by asking the seemingly dry question “How do I respond to expectations?” we gain explosive self-knowledge. She discovered that based on their answer, people fit into Four Tendencies:   • Upholders meet outer and inner expectations readily. “Discipline is my freedom.” • Questioners meet inner expectations, but meet outer expectations only if they make sense. “If you convince me why, I’ll comply.” • Obligers (the largest Tendency) meet outer expectations, but struggle to meet inner expectations—therefore, they need outer accountability to meet inner expectations. “You can count on me, and I’m counting on you to count on me.” • Rebels (the smallest group) resist all expectations, outer and inner alike. They do what they choose to do, when they choose to do it, and typically they don’t tell themselves what to do. “You can’t make me, and neither can I.”   Our Tendency shapes every aspect of our behavior, so using this framework allows us to make better decisions, meet deadlines, suffer less stress, and engage more effectively. It’s far easier to succeed when you know what works for you.   With sharp insight, compelling research, and hilarious examples, The Four Tendencies will help you get happier, healthier, more productive, and more creative.

Gretchen Rubin

The Four Tendencies

The digital nomad lifestyle is often one characterized by freedom. We have the freedom to manage our time in the way that we wish, and we have the freedom to build our lives wherever we wish.The digital nomad lifestyle is often characterized by throwing off the time and place restrictions associated with most typical jobs until recent years.There is no need to commute in to work to arrive at a certain hour and stay until the end of the day watching the clock run down even if there is nothing to do.

The Digital Nomad Lifestyle

The digital nomad lifestyle is often characterized by freedom. It offers some freedoms that are virtually impossible in traditional 9-5, location-based jobs.  No need to struggle to find decent and affordable housing within reasonable commute distance of where you want to work or be subject to the high cost of living.However, for digital nomads, the lines between work and leisure disappear, as they tend to work hard, play hard and earn more.This combination can lead to burnout.

The Allure Of Freedom

Digital nomads are people who attempt to gain freedom by travelling while working. This clearly distinguishes between them from business travellers who travel for work and tourists.Many digital nomads work for clients or companies in a way that is very similar to other more sedentary workers. However, digital nomads are more likely to have an entrepreneurial attitude.Digital nomads tend to think that they need to be “switched on” to work opportunities all the time.

Defining A Digital Nomad

To make a success of a digital nomad lifestyle, and not fall into this trap, digital nomads have to develop a variety of disciplines.It takes a minimum of three days to find healthy routines again when relocating to a new place.The most successful digital nomads have practices in place that help them to kickstart their preferred routine when they arrive at a new location, and rituals to help them delineate their new space and time.

With Great Freedom Comes Die-Hard Discipline: Mobile Adaptability

A vast majority of digital nomads rely on two devices, a laptop and a smartphone.But many digital nomads choose to differentiate between these devices, using their laptop for work, and their smartphone for leisure.Most digital nomads say that they do this because their smartphone has too many social apps on it which can be a major distraction from their work.This choice of device also helps delineate work and leisure space, much like remote workers do with a home office.

Discipline: Device Choice

A space that is set up for work, with ergonomic chairs and power sockets in the right place, plus being surrounded by others who at least appear to be working can be essential for getting into the working headspace.Being able to draw a line under work and walk away also helps digital nomads avoid letting work eat up too much of their leisure time.

Discipline: Co-Working

<ul><li>In the absence of line management accountability in traditional workplaces, many digital nomads become interested in self-imposed deadlines and performance tracking.</li><li>Digital nomads tend to do better when they choose to impose their own, self-defined deadlines.</li><li>When these don't make sense, they can often be replaced with performance tracking approaches.</li><li>When your work schedule is your own, choosing the best working hours in terms of productivity can be challenging.</li></ul>

Discipline: Self-Imposed Deadlines

digital nomad couples tend to have an easier time maintaining the lines between work and leisure than singles. This is because their commitment to spend time together and focus on one another makes it easier for them to allocate time as either work or leisure. They can also hold one another accountable.The most successful digital nomads will often create social commitments, whether they be calls with loved ones, catching up on Netflix, or taking themselves out to explore the local area, to try and bring that rhythm and accountability to their life from day-one of arriving in a new place.

Discipline: Social Commitments

Digital professions of digital nomads, combined with the pressure on them to manage their time and wellbeing, makes digital nomads very likely to be interested in applications and tools that help them better maintain their schedules and processes.Almost all the digital nomads that he interviewed were significant users of applications for time management and task tracking within their work, but also for things such as monitoring habits, evaluating their sleep, meditating, and so forth.

Discipline: Time-Management & Process Strategies

We choose the digital nomad lifestyle because we are looking for freedom. We want to be able to control our own lifestyle without the restrictions imposed on us by needing to be in a certain place at a certain time in order to work.Traditional jobs often provide the structure necessary both to promote productivity, and to clearly delineate between time spent working, and time spent on leisure.When we remove ourselves from that structure, we must rely on our own self-discipline both to be productive, and to ensure that our self-directed workload does not hinder our work-life balance.

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Freedom & Discipline: The Digital Nomad Conundrum

<ul><li>That is "I am not Mr.perfectionist". There are people above me and I am ahead of someone.</li><li>Atleast from them who aren't even trying.</li></ul>But I have to climb up those people above me and reach to much higher heights."To become a person better than my yesterday."

You Are Average

<ul><li>Or I know that-"I can be defeated".</li><li>This is a must thing to be able to compete with yourself and not going numb,lazy.</li><li>When I slack off sometimes ,this is the thing that reminds me to work again.</li></ul>

Fear Of Failure

<ul><li>Anybody who give you competition, a person who is a "physical obstruction" between you and your goal.</li><li>I have to overcome this and when you overcome him/her, find a new competitor.</li><li>You may ask- "By doing this we will always be competing and comparing us with others".</li><li>But a physical person is much easier to overcome rather than mental laziness,and ego of "I am the Best,no one can defeat me".</li></ul>By following this you can achieve your goal easily and may be ahead of more than your competition.

A Competitor 

<ul><li>Just "do your work continuously & not giving a single thought that you'll definitely be on top of your competition".</li><li>By this mindset you may not be first but will be more ahead than others(who not even tried or slack off sometimes) AND,</li><li>Most importantly you'll be "SATISFIED" with whateveryou achieve because you gave it your all. </li></ul>And that is definitely fine and healthy for your mind & body to grow further in future.And achieve anything in life if you give it your all.

Not Having High Hopes From Yourself

"The only way to do great work,Is to love what you do"

This helped me to be motivated everyday & do work continuosly and want to share so others can benefit.

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