THE LEVERAGE MINDSET VERSUS THE ONE FOR ONE MINDSET
GETTING MORE OUT OF LIFE
Dan Sullivan, the mastermind behind The Strategic Coach, uses the expression "multiplier mindset".
He says, in a pdf "How To Get To The Top And Stay There": "True to its name, this mindset is about multiplying your results in every area where you’d care to do so. I call it the Multiplier Mindset™ because it’s a way of thinking that naturally increases results. When you think in terms of multipliers, you’re always finding ways to get bigger and bigger results from the same or less effort."
The free pdf is a good read, as are all of his materials.
Not very dissimilar and pretty much the same concept if the "Leverage Mindset" and The 80/20 Mindset, which is probably the big daddy of all "get more results with less effort" concepts. Both of the latter have the same concept behind them - and they are both extremely usable in one's life - and not just business. In fact they are largely the major driver in what I call Life Value Productivity - Producing The Maximum Life In Your Life, about which I wrote a book to enable a person to get better at the first thing they need to do in life (link to the book from that page). Although interchangeable between producing value in business or in money terms, my site is about producing what is of the most value in life.
I noticed that anybody who is significantly more prosperous in monetary or life terms did it from the same process:
Using other people and/or resources to "grow" faster and/or save time
Coaches, counselors, consultants
People paid for their help or expertise
Developing extraordinary knowledge in an area of value
Could be expertise in a lucrative, high paying/value skill or
Developing "expertise", which I call wisdom, in the most valuable areas of life
(such as "productivity", "decision-making", "how to learn")
Developing an idea/product/service that is of great value to a great number of
people (Jobs, Zuckerburg, Gates, Buffett, Google, CEOs of high talent),
especially in a growing and/or more reachable market (good actors, athletes,
Amazon)
Investing (even if you have to borrow initially) in developing something of much
greater value, such that the payoff is more than enough to be profitable for the
investor - increasing a person's ability to manage his/her life such that it, even
as a byproduct, provides or frees up money resources, besides other things of
great non-monetary value)
Of course, the idea of a lever is to increase the force/power applied to move an object that is much bigger than the force on the other side of the lever (the two forces are equal but parceled out in a special way).
THE MOST PRODUCTIVE LEVERAGING OF ALL
Although the extreme of any of the above strategies could be more powerful, easily the most productive strategies is to do something that will improve the life of a person many, many times over a lifetime. The "Multiplier" is quite large in this case, larger often than the large multipliers in the other cases - the frequency of occurrence or use is what differentiates the super multipliers from the excellent or good multipliers.
The biggest multipliers, if the way of proceeding is well-designed, are:
Learning (the information that is of the most value in having one increase the value production)
Thinking such that good choices are made (and learning how to think is a big multiplier
In any case, but whatever level a person is at the frequency of use significantly affects life as does also developing master "ways of proceeding" that produce better results than unthoughtout thinking)
The two, when multiplied together, are the greatest multiplier, as they are what determines the quality of the choices in one's life, which, obviously, determines the quality of one's life!!!!
Because each of the two offer the most multiplier effect, the first thing to do (as soon as you can) is to learn how to learn better and then learn how to think how to think better. And those two are always better done when the "way of proceeding" to do them is systematic and well ordered from the best sources possible.
[Better way times [how to times [learning = Best knowledge
of learning] learn better] what is of most value] by far
10x 10x 10x = 1000x
Assuming, although the case can be made that the numbers are actually bigger, that each of these three are 10x better than the normal result, when they all affect each other and are multiplied we end up with a result that is not must 10x better or even "just" a 100x better, but a 1000 times better.
The same scale could be used to produce the best ability to think, tied with the best "ways of proceeding" to produce thinking that could easily be 1000 times more effective than all the factors just being normal.
If you apply, perfectly (which is not possible), these two together, the choices could be up to 1,000,000 times better in terms of value produced.
Best knowledge, times best thinking = 1000's of times more value
facts, to use & processing
But it is interesting to see how people are "too busy" or just don't see the huge effect, so they do nothing or just a little, in the cracks of time that sporadically appear in the "too busy" world. Essentially, the activities that those people are doing that are keeping them trapped in "busy" are actually of very low value by comparison. But they keep doing it and wondering why life is so hard and stressful and unproductive.
Of course, the "too busy" aren't stopping to think and/or not stopping to learn enough (to the point of sufficient usability) and/or not using good "ways of thinking" - or they would have been off on the multiplying path of life - a growth curve that is not just steadily growing, but one growing at an increasing pace - but, seemingly ironically, with less effort at the same time and lots more enjoyment, value, and happiness.
WHAT ARE THE CHOICES THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT
When we think of choices, we normally think of important things like career, spouse, a big purchase, etc. But the biggest ones that are more life determining, or at least come first, are of what beliefs to live life by. A wrong, not factually supported, not examined and thought out belief can be ruinous in one's life. So, if we are thinking well, we would discover (a form of "learning of") what the beliefs are that will or are affecting our lives the most and then learn the facts and do the thinking to assure that they are right. Of course, in a good thinking process, one would look for obvious indicators, such as one getting undesired results though one believed that his/her behavior, etc., would get a desired result. That is what we call looking at reality and paying attention to the signs!
Another indicator is when we compare a belief that contains some assumptions about how things work with what reality actually is - such as "hope" and "the law of attraction without action". Though those are seemingly obvious (but not to some people!) many of the others can't be debunked by simply spending the time to learn "What Reality Is" and then comparing reality to the parts of the belief - and immediately blowing some out of the water. Of comparing facts against assumptions does take some "awareness" of the facts and then some "rational thinking" processing, but often we can just ferret out old unexamined unthoughtout beliefs primarily from just using a good thinking process.
