There’s 98 days until 2027...Do this and you’ll thank yourself on Jan 1st

Shaan Puri (0:00)

There are 99 days left in the year, 99 days. I almost feel like this 100 day left in the year is more important than the New Year's resolution.

I just encourage anyone, man, it's the end of the year. Use this last sprint and treat it like an athlete does the fourth quarter of a game. And really ask yourself, what do I want this year to be all about?

Have I kind of made my mark on the year? And 99 days might sound like a short amount of time, but that's an eternity. You can make so much happen in 99 days. And I just encourage anyone to just hear that today and just ask yourself the question like, have I made my mark on this year yet? And if not, there's one sprint right here we can use.

Sam Parr (0:49)

I have two comments on that. The first is I think the idea of quarters is so stupid. Quarters should be months.

Don't make it Q4, make it like M6 and then M7. Like four weeks is significantly better. The time that something takes is often dictated by the increments that we measure them in. Yeah, I can't stand that. In Google calendars, it defaults to 30-minute increments. I'm like, no, make it five-minute increments. The second, I joke with a bunch of my Jewish friends. One of the reasons why they're so successful is the Jewish New Year is in September, so Roshahana, I can't even say it correctly.

That was in September. I'm like, dude, you guys have three months head start in terms of New Year's resolutions, like reflecting on your year. I was thinking about that, where I've actually liked that, where you make New Year's resolutions like two months in advance. You got a two-month head start on everyone.

Shaan Puri (1:45)

Well, I think it's called Parkinson's Law, which is like work expands to fill the time you give it.

It's like modeled after physics. Like a gas will expand to fill whatever container it's in. So if you shrink the container, the gas will be more compact. If you have a bigger container, it'll spread out. Your projects work the same way. And so if you default to, like you said, Google Calendar, if the default meeting is 30 minutes or an hour, guess what? You'll find a way to talk for 30 minutes. If you had moved that same meeting to 22 minutes, you would have got it all done in 22 minutes.

So yeah, I think take this 99 days and make it happen. I don't know, where are you at with that? Do you think this way? I know you're trying not to be the kind of ADD entrepreneur or the cortisol entrepreneur anymore that's spiking and stressed.

Sam Parr (2:32)

Yeah, I'm trying to fight my natural instincts.

How's that going? So it's good. I think my theory is that you can't change your weaknesses or it's really hard to make your weaknesses a strength. You can potentially neutralize it, but that's like the best case scenario. And so instead, you do something where you just create a system where your weakness can't really show itself. So for example, if you don't work out, you're like, well, I'm never going to be self-motivated. But if I prepay for this trainer to show up at my home, I'm still going to be lazy, but I just have to do this. There's no choice. So with me, I've got a CEO, my co-founder, Joe. And so we have set it up to where we only talk mostly about personal stuff throughout the day. But there's only one day of the week where I can come and complain to him or suggest improvements for the business. And that one day a week, it's only 45 minutes. And I have to write it out in advance. And so because of that, I'll like see something and get pissed off. And I'll be like, six days later, when we talk about it, I'm like, I'm not actually that angry. And so like, I'm a big fan of creating systems. So it's worked for me.

Do you have anything major that you want to do over the next 90?

Shaan Puri (3:45)

Yeah, I want to, there's like one more event I want to create. I've realized that as the world is so online, so digital, I think it's just put premiums on everything that's IRL. So I want to create one more IRL event. We have Hoop Group, which is our basketball event that we do once a year. And I want to create a second. And that thing's been like such a blessing, right?

It's super fun to do, unbelievable crew of people that come to that thing. And it's built this awesome network around something that I would just do for fun anyways. And I want to do another one of those. The problem with that one is it's so exclusive. Not only is everybody there kind of like the top of the top in terms of their careers, but also you have to be really into basketball, which is fundamentally limiting for a lot of people. They're just not that into basketball. So I want to create another event that is not limited in that same way.