7 Things That I’ve Seen Have the Highest ROI in Life

Changing the meaning of your life is tough.

To create change, one needs to add daily drops of positive ROI to the tragedy of your life. Each drop over accumulated brings results that beautifully bloom life.

Here are 7 things that I have seen have the highest ROI in life.

1. Not drinking

Not drinking is the most important of all the ‘life optimizations’. You are feeling way more in control of things.

Compared with doing a cold plunge, wearing an Oura ring to optimize your sleep, or outsourcing tasks to a VA, there’s genuinely no bigger lifehack than just not drinking.

Asking for non-alcoholic in social situations is the best way to beat the friction.

2. Writing online

Writing online is enriching in so many different ways; it’s incredible. It’s pure digital leverage, which is what I’m all about.

The fear of writing in public quickly dissipates when you realize that there’s never been a higher probability asymmetric bet you can make.

What an amazing era we’re living in.

3. Walks without your phone

The benefits of walking are well documented. This is also the hack I love most, a hack that when I do I get some good thinking in.

It’s almost impossible to not have a good day when you start it with a walk in nature — everything else seems trivial. But walking without your phone sounds so simple yet it‘s hard.

Many people can‘t even walk outside anymore without listening to music or podcasts.

It‘s time to detach for an hour.

4. Setting deadlines

Parkinson’s law says, ‘work expands to fill the time available for its completion’.

If something must be done in a year, one must done in a year. Deadlines also force clarity on what’s important. To move faster, apply deadlines.

This has been a game-changer for me many times. I even go as far as to set a time amount for how long each task will take me.

5. No agenda, no outcomes then no meeting

Avoiding meetings with no clear agenda and desired outcomes.

Your time is precious; don’t waste it on meaningless conversation.

I have added ‘desired outcomes’ here because I’ve found meetings still derail with an agenda, but when everyone is clear on the desired outcomes, e.g. make decision X, we more easily stay on track (and end early once it’s hit).

6. Controlling inputs

Although this point is not about what you eat or drink, though that matters. What I mean here is:

• What are you reading and listening to?

• Who are your friends?

• What are the inputs determining your thoughts?

Consider whether they need to change. Because one can also easily determine someone’s character by observing the above things.

7. Connecting people (together)

Life is a positive sum.

Everyone wants to be social but very few make the effort to do so. Do this and you’ll build a great network and fulfillment at the same time.