"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. The creation of a wonderful life starts with an idea."

• By beginning with the things that are upstream of everything else you make the millions of actions and decisions you take in the future easier, setting yourself up for success
• By mastering the things all things flow from you are applying leverage and a force multiplier to the energy you invest into change increasing the probability of a favorable outcome
• By taking away the mountain of things you waste your energy on you create peace and potential for precise and focused action
• By focusing on the things that have the biggest return on your invested energy (ROE) you are creating a surplus of energy that can be re-used for even more positive change
• By focusing on the physiology of what you need to be your best self you are eliminating the thousands of emerging problems before they start
• By building a solid foundation you are creating a path where an upward spiral becomes a natural next step

Overview

Everyone’s is at a different place in life and I want to meet you where you are.  The site is split up into sections so you can jump to what you believe is the root cause of your issue.  The challenge is everything is connected, you don't know what you don't know and you may not realize the root cause of your suffering is not what you believed it to be.  It is because of this that I recommend consuming Livefully.net sequentially left-to-right like a book.  It is designed chapter by chapter to systematically build you and trouble shoot where the root cause of a hurdle or bottleneck of your potential may exist.  We begin with those things that heal, increase your capacity and impact everything else.  

As a practical example Sleep according to numerous scientifically validated sources of evidence: 

• Improves focus
• Enhances your ability to learn and retain information
• Allows you to make better decisions
• Enhances your ability to maintain willpower
• Increases lean muscle mass
• Enhances fat burning
• Decreases impulsivity, addiction and cravings
• Prevents you from debilitating diseases
• Prevents you from having mental disorders
• Is the time when you actually grow muscle and adapt to stress
• Insufficient sleep predicts depression

If you had a limited amount of energy (and you do) why would you not take intention to put it first in a place where you will get multiples back?  A place that would make every other action or decision easier?  A place where you can reap the rewards for the rest of your life and that will impact every step of your journey and how you experience every moment.

I could tell you what to do.  It could be in your best interest.  You could know it's in your best interest.  You could understand what you needed to do step by step.  But you wouldn't be able to do it.  This happens ALL the time and gets to the very core of human nature.  We will dive into it in depth in "Take the Green Pill: The Livefully.net Philosophy" when we talk about causality, free will and human nature.  This is why we have to be very mindful on how we approach change.  We don't want to say a bunch of nice things, feel good about ourselves and then nothing happens and we fall back to the previous negative patterns.

Note that this section applies to running any system.  Be it a human being, a business or a planet.  

For individuals:  Some fall into success or successful habits.  If you are not one of those and you need to exert effort to create change in your life - this is a valuable read.  In the worlds of Steven Covey:  "Put first things first."

• Recognizing that you have limited energy and resources.
• Realizing that some things you do will create energy and other things will take away energy.  Begin to be mindful and notice which is which.  Apply this framework to both activities and people 
• Focus your efforts on mastering the fundamentals that are at the root of creating energy, vitality and wellbeing.  These fundamentals are sleep, diet, exercise and mindset and will impact your psychology (inner world) and physiological (outer world) which will in turn influence each other.  Investing your effort here will reap compounded benefits for the rest of your life.  Mastering these can make you and your mindset and physiology bulletproof.
• Free up energy by removing wasted effort.
  • For things that take energy away, Do not start things and not finish them.  By exerting work to execute on an idea and bringing it into life but not finishing the loop you have essentially lost a bunch of energy without reaping the potential reward.  
  • Too often do I see people start on executing a bunch of ideas but never finish any of them.  They are hence left exhausted.  The positive feedback loop is broken and they wind up with no hope for change or life itself.  In this scenario the most you can try to capture is wisdom and experience as you touched reality and it gave you feedback.
  • When you don't bring an idea to completion you do not get the reward.  If the activity is an activity that gives you energy, no  problem!  DO it as long as it does not hurt you.  But if you start executing on an idea that requires work and takes energy away - if you don't finish you get none of the rewards.  You just drained yourself.

• The fight is won or lost before it begins.  If something is important do it right the first time.  DO the thing, whatever it is to start getting feedback and learning from reality.  Only listen to masters that have done exactly and very specifically what you are trying to accomplish.  Be very specific.  IGNORE advice from everyone else.  People like to hear themselves talk.  Do not listen to your poor grandma about getting rich.  Do not listen to a billionaire that started as a millionaire if you are broke.  Rather listen to a broke person that became a millionaire.  Be very discriminating in what you allow to permeate into your mind as truth and the way to reach your goal.  The world is full of false gurus.  Find multiple such masters and you will start to see the thing from many different angles.  See what things the masters said in common as a good place to begin focusing your efforts on.  Master the basics.  Create a daily habit.  Start with 20 minutes of practice as a minimum.  You can not achieve a goal if you are not measuring it.  Measure the things that are important.  Be effective and efficient in how you use your energy.  Be patient.

• For important long term goals be strategic in what you decide to put work and effort into.  We have limited energy, life is hard enough - why would you be working EXTRA hard for something - unless it's worth it?  Rather I want to save my energy and work EXTRA hard for something that has a tremendous reward to me and a meaningful enough probability of success. Only start things you are committed to finishing. Pick things that are achievable.  Pick things that have a good return on your energy.  Make sure you set a good and realistic time frame for yourself.  Set yourself up for success by having a plan that is rooted in reality.

• Learn to do things one at a time.  Avoid context switching and any and all distractions. Going to the bathroom is a distraction!  When your doing the thing.  Do the thing.  By doing things one at a time you allow your brain to warm up and gain momentum around one thing or area.  Most of us are constantly switching from one thing to another.  Ohh I got a text, oh my coworker came in, oh let me check my email.  For times of productivity STOP.  Focus on one thing at a time.  You allow yourself to gain momentum.  You will get much more out of your time if you focus on one thing each day for 7 hours versus 7 things each day for an hour each.

• Discipline and energy need to be applied in starting and showing up.  It really is 50% of the battle.  Show up every day for yourself.  Put what you want to do in front of you and then do it for a certain amount of time.  The hard part is starting.  The hard part is keeping distractions away.  But I guarantee you if you can get the thing in front of you and force yourself to do it for 20 minutes a strangely large amount of the time it is the path of least resistance to continue doing the thing.  People are like boats in water.  They are hard to move initially but once they get going they are also hard to stop.  Human beings have a peculiar nature.  Once we start something we kind of get mesmerized by it eventually.  If at worst do it for 20 minutes every day to create the habit.  You WILL BLOW YOURSELF AWAY at what you will accomplish in a year if you just do something 20 minutes every day.  Odds are you will at some point WANT to do more naturally, effortlessly and without trying.  

Sidebar Idea: Do a Walk\Run - Walk then run a little stop when you feel tired - then walk - then run a little stop when tired for 20 minutes a day for 365 days and you will SHOCK yourself at how much you will advance in a year.  This applies to near everything else.  It is the nature of how the body and brain works in that you get exponential compound interest.  Albert Einstein said the most powerful thing in the world is compound interest.

• If you put the time and effort into something to get good at it I promise you you can learn to love doing something you hate.  This can apply to almost anything from: public speaking, playing a sport, going running, playing an instrument, making cold calls, doing math, whatever.  If you hate doing something it's probably because you suck at it and you don't feel comfortable with it.  Human beings love doing what they are good at.  Realize that things that take energy away for you don't have to always stay that way - you just have to put the time in. 

Look don't confuse things.  Be mindful of the context.  You will hear popular modern day influencers like Gary Vaynerchuk, Joe Rogan, Tony Robinson or Jocko Willink say things like "ACTION trumps all!" and they are right.  You need to touch reality and get that feedback.

But don't get it twisted.  Planning can be action too.  There is a difference in context on when you should just DO and when you should DO but plan, be strategic and think like a corporation or elite navy seal commander thinks.  Context is important.  Do you think Jocko the famed Navy Seal Commander would just tell his men to just go out there and fight! NO.  Lives would be lost.  It all begins with planning.  The war is won before it ever begins because of planning.  If say that thing is - going for a walk\run - just fucking do it! It will create momentum in your thoughts and start a chain of actions.  As a rule of thumb the more important something is the more thought, planning and strategy should go into it.     

Nuance:  The difference between a CEO and a teenager is experience.  The teenager has no experience.  I would bias ACTION and researching masters in this case as part of the ACTION.  A CEO may have the experience and world view so the best executives will spend a great deal of effort and focus on planning and making strategic decisions on how they will use resources to get an inordinate gain for their business.  

Let's finish with a real life example of winging it vs planning as it pertains to muscle building.  You will see how someone working smart can get far better results then someone working hard.  If you do both and align yourself to your passion you can become exponentially better then others and reap the rewards.

Person #1: Winging It Approach

I'll give you an example you can reference in the Exercise: Muscle Building chapter of Livefully.net.  Say you want to look good, be attractive, have good energy, feel good about yourself.  Most people mess this up royally and make it way worse than it has to be.  They do no research.  They go to the gym, they push themselves too hard and work out for an hour and a half.  They feel like they are going to throw up afterwards.  They are incredibly sore.  They do it again the next day.  They don't implement proper nutrition.  They don't sleep right.  They don't use a proper rest period based on the intensity of the exercise.  They don't have a proper timeline of when to see results or what expectations should be.  Boom they quit and beat themselves up about it, start thinking negative thoughts about them being incapable.  It bothers them in the back of their mind and their subconscious.  It breaks down their ego.  They wasted all this energy and got nothing but negative results.   

VERSUS 

Person #2: Educated, Informed, Researched and Strategic Approach to Building Muscle, Looking Good, Feeling Fit, Developing Discipline and a Strong Mindset

Training regiment for a total beginner for first 3 months:   

Principles

• Consistency is key.  Build the daily habit.
• The fundamental principle people miss is it's all about the rest recovery cycle.  When your starting out you can do very little and see significant results if you don't overtrain and if you provide your body the protein and sleep it needs to rebuild.
• Just 3 muscle groups:
  • Compound Push Movements: Dips 1X a week of 8 sets of 10 reps until failure
  • Compound Pull Movements: Pull Ups 1X a week of 8 sets of 10 reps until failure 
  • Compound Leg Movements: Squats 1X a week of 8 sets of 10 reps until failure
  • Eat a gram of protein per day for every pound of your ideal bodyweight (ex: 185 pds = 185 grams of protein a day)  Supplement if necessary
  • Get ample sleep and reduce stress

You will be shocked at the fact that your strength will double in 3 months using this technique if you are a total beginner. 

Results?

• If you are person #2 you worked out less during your whole week then person #1 did in their first day.
• You were not nauseous so your brain didn't start to associate "working out" with feeling like shit.  You may have gotten a positive endorphin rush and a feeling of calm which often happens after a workout.  You gave yourself props and credit.  You set a reasonable goal, you achieved it - completing the mental loop and getting the dopamine spike.  You set reasonable expectations you could meet.  You used science and the experience of experts to craft your initial foray into muscle building.   
• Odds are because you targeted a muscle group intensely but without wasted effort, ate properly, and waited a whole weak between tackling the same muscle group again with intensity you will probably notice a small physiological difference in strength.  You will be slightly stronger, slightly more stable, you will feel GOOD, rested when doing the exercise.
• Since you worked your whole body including legs you will get the testosterone boosting benefits vs person #1 who probably overworked themselves and may get a testosterone decrease.  This will help your overall mood and gains.
• You have set yourself on the habit of doing this for a lifetime.
• During 3 months you have gone through 12 break down and grow stronger cycles.  This is the key understanding and most important macro metric.
• After building the habit for 3 months you can start to shorten your rest recovery cycle based on how your body responds.  If you feel rested, strong and able to do equivalent or more work you can begin to even stack exercises to eventually hit each muscle group 2X a week. 

This is the difference between working hard (but aimlessly) and working smart.  THE BEST in the world do both and hence get an EXPONENTIAL multiplier.  Get an idea.  Become a student do the research.  Create a plan. Execute and adjust your plan.