You Have 70 Days to Win the Year

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, it's Q4, so I don't know. Whatever day you're gonna hear this, there's about 70 days left in the year. 70 days left in the year, and everybody makes a big deal about January 1st, New Year's resolutions, but I have a different argument. I have an argument that says there's 70 days left in the year, just enough time to actually do the thing, whatever the thing is for you, that's gonna make this year amazing.
Today is a wake up call, 70 days left, it's time for one sprint on one priority, to try to make it happen. The one thing you could do, whatever it is, that's gonna make your year awesome. So for example, maybe you're trying to get in great shape, the diet starts this morning, it starts now, and we're going hardcore, it's life or death diet mode. If you're trying to, if you really want to quit your job, start the business, put in your notice, put in your notice today. Just put it in and see what happens, see how it feels, just the tip. Whatever you're gonna do, you gotta figure out how you're gonna use the 70 day sprint. If you're trying to hit your growth goal, if you're trying to raise a round of funding, whatever it is, this is the lock in time. Because 70 days is about the perfect amount of time where you could totally shift your life. It's enough time to be honest about how long things take to make a change happen. But it's short enough where you won't lollygag. And you're either gonna make it happen this year or you're not, and this last 70 days is gonna be the make or break. As Frank Slootman, the guy who was CEO of Snowflake and wrote that book, Amp It Up, he goes, Priority should be a single word. If somebody tells me their top three priorities, all I ask them is, which one is it? And then they get really flustered, but he goes, I believe priority is a single word. And so I highly suggest, figure out the one priority, the one thing that if you just did this one thing, the whole year is a win, and they use the 70 days to do it and wipe everything else off the calendar. All right, let's take a quick break to talk about our sponsor today, HubSpot. With smaller budgets and sky high expectations, growth is feeling pretty painful right now, but HubSpot just announced more than 200 product updates to make impossible growth feel impossibly easy. Like Breeze, it's a new suite of AI tools that will help you say goodbye to your busy work and hello to better work. Breeze Intelligence, which will give you the richest, most comprehensive picture of your prospects and customers. And re-imagine marketing and content hubs to attract and convert more leads and send your revenue soaring. Visit hubspot.com/spotlight to learn more.

**Shaan Puri** (2:43)
What's your thing going to be?

**Sam Parr** (2:47)
My one thing for this year, the one thing that if I just did this thing, I could look back and be like, well, I don't care what else happened that year, that happened and that's all that matters. For me, it's getting in the best shape of my life. And so I've made good progress. I'm down about 15 pounds. I would like to turn the corner, get the last 10 down by the end of this year. And to do that, I'll need to ratchet up. And really it's not necessarily about pounds, but like I set these habits. I was like, all right, I have these habits that got me this body. If I want that body, I got to have these other habits. And so I've been trying to change, you know, these four or five habits. It's just four or five, four or five of these habits that got me where I'm at, where I want to go. And I've probably changed two of the four. So I have the last 70 days to get the other two done.

**Shaan Puri** (3:32)
What are the other two?

**Sam Parr** (3:34)
So I'll give you the two I did. I'll give you the two I need to do. So the two I did, the first one is planning, planning the health part of my day at the beginning. First thing when I wake up. So we both, I don't know if you still do, but I use my body tutor. So she calls me.

**Shaan Puri** (3:48)
It's great, right? It's a great service.

**Sam Parr** (3:50)
It's a great service. We have no stake. At least I have no stake in this business. It's, you know, I'm just a big fan of it. So she calls me at eight in the morning and she says, how did yesterday go? What's today? Blah, blah. But the thing that happens is instead of waking up and just starting my day with my work and my emails, my Slack and like me little computer stuff. No, I start my day with the top priority. The thing I really care about, which is rewiring these habits and in doing so, I basically stop improvising because the improvising is where I'm just going to make whatever decision happened in the moment and those decisions are the key thing, right? So I plan in my day, I say, I'm going to eat this, this, and this. At these times, I'm going to work out here. And most importantly, we identify like, what might trip me up? It's like, oh, I have to take my kids to the gymnastics thing. That's like an hour away. It's at the time I normally eat dinner. So you plan around the grenade. Yeah, it's like, oh, so what are you going to do? Oh, simple. I'll just bring it with me in the car or I'm going to eat before I go.