The quality of your life is determined by your ability to shape it! When we boil everything down to the basics, we’re left with 15 IF – THEN Algorithms for Life.
Today we’re going to go through the 15 essential IF – THEN algorithms for life! Make sure you stick around until the end because this one is an eye-opener! Don’t worry if you don’t feel like reading, you can enjoy the video below or watch it on YouTube:
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IF you don’t like your reality, THEN change what you do on a daily basis
We sleep, eat, commute and we work. Most people only live on the weekend.
Most people wrongly assume that life is all about taking big risks and making big decisions, but that’s not true.
Small changes to what you do every day can make a big difference in how happy you are with your life. Start with small things, and if the change doesn’t happen, make the impact zone bigger and bigger.
2
IF you want to start, THEN remove the friction
How many of you began the year with New Year New Me resolutions in mind?!
Did you hit the gym as much as you wanted?
How much of that weight did you manage to lose?
Is your new business looking as good as you wanted it to?
You failed to do most of these things because you didn’t know where to start or even if you did, you didn’t really feel like sticking with it.
The secret to getting things done is to remove friction; get rid of things that get in the way.
Pay for a year’s worth of gym membership, and have your gym bag and running shoes ready by the door.
You’ll find that you double or triple the amount of time you spend following through on your goals if you remove friction first.
3
IF you got burned, THEN don’t put your hand back into the fire
It will happen.
People will screw you over or you will make mistakes yourself. Learn from them and move on. People exert pattern-based behavior, meaning they repeat themselves in the way they do things.
Remember this:
What happened once, may never happen again.
What happened twice, will surely happen a 3rd time.
4
IF you want to get things done, THEN move from LEARNING to DOING
People get stuck in the learning phase.
Every problem you have in your life is either: A KNOWLEDGE problem or an ACTION problem.
You either don’t know what to do, or you are not doing it.
Most of you reading this piece know exactly what you should be doing, yet you haven’t taken enough action yet.
You learned enough. Go do.
5
IF you want to be RICH, THEN work & invest as the rich do
If you want to be healthy, then do what healthy people do.
If you want to be happy, then do what happy people do.
This isn’t as complicated as others make it seem.
As of 2023, there are 56,000,000 millionaires in the world. Almost all rich people own a business. They invest in real estate, stocks, and other forms of appreciating assets.
If you want to be rich, take the same actions rich people do. Build a business. Generate cash. Diversify your portfolio. Keep at it.
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6
IF they don’t feel the same way about you that you do, THEN walk away
We know you want to stay longer.
We know you think you should just try harder and maybe they’ll change their minds, but the truth is you’re just making it difficult for both yourself and them.
You got rejected. Deal with it and move on. It won’t be the last time it happens.
One of the most important skills you can have is the ability to process rejection. Getting rejected will help you find a better fit for what you’re looking for and make you a better person along the way.
7
IF you regret a decision, THEN stop and put it behind you
Once something has happened, you can’t change it anymore.
Do not regret past decisions. They were the best choices you could think of at the time you had to make the decision.
Now you have new information, you have data, and you have historical performance.
Adjust-course so that next time you make a better choice.
8
IF you’re unhappy, THEN start with physical changes to your mind
It’s hard to understand how the outside world affects the inside world, but there’s enough evidence to show that this is true.
Start with getting enough sleep, then go outside and soak up some sun. Your emotions are affected by things outside of you.
Some of you might think you are depressed or very sad when you might just be iron deficient.
Talk to a professional and stop letting your favorite TV character’s actions affect how you feel; it’s not cool.
9
IF you don’t like how other people treat you, THEN treat yourself differently
Humans are emotional mirrors. They reflect your emotional state back at you.
For as long as you’re alive remember this: People treat you based on how you treat yourself!
Change your attitude toward yourself and you will see the world reshape around it
10
IF others did it, THEN you can do it too
Seeing other people do what you want to do just shows that the theory works.
If you got the same ingredients in the same place and under the same conditions, and you knew what you were doing, you could probably make the same thing faster than anyone else.
Even though it sounds cheesy, most things seem impossible until someone does them. For example, Roger Bannister’s famous 4-minute mile seemed impossible until he did it. People thought it was physically impossible to run a mile in less than 4 minutes because no one had ever come close until Roger did it.
Since Roger disproved that theory, 1,664 more people have run a mile in under 4 minutes. You need to stop listening to people who haven’t done it.
Take advice from top performers and see just how quickly you pick up momentum to do things others would only dream of. That’s what the Alux App does.
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Start with 10 minutes per day and see your life change!
11
IF underthinking THEN read, If overthinking THEN write
If you’re lost, if you don’t know what to do, or if you haven’t found your “thing” yet, then read.
If your mind is buzzing, put things down in writing.
When you write down your thoughts, it takes them out of your head and puts them in the real world.
Once you see them laid out, put them together like puzzle pieces and see what you get.
12
IF it worked in the past, THEN chances are it will work again – Default to what works!
We have a favorite way of overcoming impostor syndrome: CRUSH IT WITH MOUNTAINS OF PROOF!
Your credibility ties into your ability to materialize what you say you’ll do. Pretenders are easily affected by impostor syndrome, but practitioners can always fall back on their past performance. If you’re suffering from impostor syndrome, we wrote an entire piece dedicated solely to how to get over Impostor Syndrome. You can read it here.
13
IF you want to make progress, THEN input more than you’re doing now
People expect their reality to change without changing themselves and that’s why they’re miserable.
If you want anything new to come into your life you will need to go beyond your normal. Progress requires constant push beyond the limits!
14
If you feel tired, THEN rest
Our generation doesn’t know how to rest. The world is on fire 24/7.
Rest doesn’t mean sleep. If you look in the dictionary, “to rest” means “to regain strength.”
We always push ourselves, but you can work hard for a whole year and not get very far because you can only give 20% of what you can, and it takes 90%+ to move the needle.
15
If you want an epic life, THEN do epic shit
Most people live mediocre lives but want to live exceptionally. This is one of the biggest misunderstandings in the world.
You have to DO the exceptional first! Do things others aren’t doing.
Go to places where others aren’t going, that’s what makes you interesting!
Only then, when you look back, you’ll realize you’ve lived an exceptional life.
Bonus
IF YOU DON’T HAVE IT, THEN YOU DON’T WANT IT ENOUGH
Sorry to break it to you, but that’s the truth.
Think about it like this: if whatever goal you’re going after right now was a life or death situation, where if you didn’t achieve it, you died – how much effort would you put into it compared to what you’re doing right now?
Right?! You would keep going after it until you got it. Everything else in our lives is the same.
You want to get in shape, but you don’t have to. You don’t “obsess” over the accomplishment.
Do you want to know a secret? At some point, everyone who got to where they are now was obsessed with making it happen.
We obsessed over it because we wanted to get out of poverty. We were willing to do whatever it took and work as much as it took because we knew what the reward would do for our lives.
So, we did it.
Right now, if you want something, take this chance to think about how badly you want it because the amount of work you have to do will depend on your answer.
These are the 15 IF – THEN Algorithms for Life. If these have piqued your interest, there’s a whole lot more waiting for you on the Alux App. Try it out and see your life improve!
