This week's good life project is entitled pick your 2% and put everything against it.
So what if you blew up your schedule and rebuilt it around your ability to birth genius?
What if you started with a blank, white schedule, then added in four to 5 hours a day in fluid bursts where you dropped into uninterrupted, hyper focused maker mode?
What if, then, and only then, you added back in a smattering of manager mode items like meetings and calls and conversation and other administrivia, but only what could fit into a designated two to three hour window every day?
And what if you kept this schedule for a week or a month or a season?
What if you kept this schedule for life?
How might this change not only what you're capable of creating, but the way you engage with the people you adore and your ability to build or rebuild a vital, healthy body, mind, spirit and life?
What might the net impact of this be, not just on you, but on the world around you?
What if, as legendary Boulder, Colorado venture capitalist and Techstars co founder and author, what if Brad felt, as he offers, what if you picked the 2% where you could make a massive difference and you put everything you've got into it and then let everything else go?
And interestingly, in the summers, Brad pretty much does just that.
Moving to a mountain house in Keystone with his wife and a few golden retrievers, he abandons his insanely packed schedule.
Mountains of meetings, constant calls, 16 to 18 hours days and spends months away from the world, writing, creating, running, connecting, refueling.
When he does this, what unfolds is pretty extraordinary.
And he shares it often.
Many surprises and awakenings, both about the true impact his regular schedule was having on him and what that pace was doing to his ability to pick his 2% and put everything he had against it to make the greatest difference.
In fact, if you want to go into that more deeply, and I've actually recorded conversation, we have an earlier podcast with Brad.
You can just search for it on the site or on iTunes, you'll find that conversation.
And it's a really powerful exploration of how Brad makes very deliberate choices in the name of living an extraordinary life.
One that's not always easy and one that doesn't always work well.
But I think you might really enjoy that conversation.