Win Fast

Quick Ways to Achieve More, Earn More, and Be More

Siimon Reynolds

• Publisher: Citadel Press
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9780806540917
• eBook ISBN: 9780806540924
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Personal Success

COVID-19 has changed the way we work: shifting the home into our workplace, tied to email and our computers, juggling the demands of our job and supporting our kids with remote learning.  The result can be a lack of focus, low productivity, and feeling overwhelmed. We need new strategies to hack our routines...and Win Fast gives you just that...with maximum results!  For readers of The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris, Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg, and Atomic Habits by James Clear—here's the solution for working smarter, working faster, working better...

We all want to do better. Be more productive. More efficient. More successful. And we want it now. But we are already so busy. How could we possibly do more?
 
Amplifying your personal and business performance instantly and effectively requires quick, proven, game-changing strategies. Techniques that you can implement immediately and offer fast results. Now Siimon Reynolds, world renowned entrepreneur and mentor to the most successful CEOs on the planet, offers the win-fast, win-big tools you need to succeed. He succinctly outlines the principles you can put into practice right here and right now to maximize your time, sharpen your focus, and achieve your goals. 
 
Seemingly simple, but radical and cutting-edge, these methods will take your career and your life to the next level.
 
Get ready to win . . . Fast. 
 

Table of contents

• WIN FAST
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION - The world is moving at breakneck speed.
• USE A TIMER ALL DAY - This productivity technique is extreme, but I use it to massively increase how much work I get done in a day.
• MAKE YOUR CELL PHONE YOUR COACH - Has this ever happened to you?
• READ YOUR GOALS THREE TIMES A DAY - Most people’s system for achievement is incredibly haphazard, lax and ineffective.
• PRACTICE THE TWO-HOUR DAY - I created this technique to combat a major problem most people experience frequently.
• DEVELOP THE NUMBER-ONE TRAIT OF TOP-PERFORMING CEOS - One of the world’s leading management researchers, Professor John Kotter of Harvard Business School, was driven by a single question.
• DO A PERSONAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW EVERY NIGHT - I find it extraordinary that many people say that they want to perform at the highest level, but do virtually no analysis of their own performance.
• CREATE A THREE-PERSON SUPERHERO - The founders of the field of psychology known as Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, developed a fabulous way to quickly improve anyone’s performance.
• CREATE A FUTURE SELF - Here’s an interesting mental model that really helps people to succeed at a high level.
• SPEND MORE TIME IN FIELD FOUR - There are four fields we can spend our daytime lives in.
• HAVE A CLEAR FINISH TIME - This simple technique will massively improve both your work and your life.
• HAVE A MACRO TO-DO LIST - There’s no doubt that writing a To-Do list improves how much you get done in a day, week or year.
• LIVE BY THE 64/4 RULE - One of the most powerful rules in the universe is surely the 80/20 Principle.
• FAST ONE DAY A WEEK - For centuries, fasting has been seen as a way to dramatically improve someone’s health and mindset.
• WORK UNDER FULL-SPECTRUM LIGHTING
• TO DOMINATE MEETINGS, ASK QUESTIONS - Doing meetings well is both an art and a science.
• FOLLOW THE 80 PERCENT GOOD PRINCIPLE - Society admires perfectionists.
• FOLLOW MY FOUR-STEP PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM - There have been thousands of books written on productivity, many of them contradicting the others. Working out which advice to take can be overwhelming.
• DON’T ANSWER THE PHONE 90 PERCENT OF THE TIME - Modern slavery was abolished around the mid-nineteenth century.
• HAVE A LEARNING GOAL EACH QUARTER - People have a love/hate relationship with setting goals.
• BECOME A MASTER OF THANK-YOU NOTES - Want to make a huge impact on a lot of important people?
• GO SUPER ON FISH OIL - Every year more research comes out showing that consuming fish oil has the potential to hugely improve a human’s performance, in a variety of important ways.
• USE THE RELEASE BREATH TO KEEP YOUR STRESS LOW - High stress is a close companion of many high-achieving individuals. It’s so prevalent that many of us just accept it as the way modern life is.
• GET AN ACCOUNTABILITY PARTNER - No matter how successful we are, we are all human. At times we get lazy, we give up on our cherished goals, we perform at a lower level than we aspired to reach.
• TRAIN YOUR SELF-CONTROL DAILY - We live in a world of instant gratification. Never in history has it been so easy and so quick to obtain so much.
• DO MEETINGS STANDING UP - Let’s face it, long boring meetings are the bane of most professional people’s existence.
• HAVE A BETWEEN LIST - This technique is really pro-level productivity stuff.
• USE THE BEZOS DECISION-MAKING SYSTEM - My work as a high-performance coach to high achievers usually consists of sharing with my clients two types of wisdom.
• AIM TO BE IN THE TOP 10 PERCENT OF YOUR FIELD - Have you ever noticed that the people at the very top of any field get a disproportionately large slice of the rewards?
• MAKE YOUR DESK LIKE THE SAHARA DESERT - The ideal mental state when you want to get things done is clear and relaxed.
• INCREASE YOUR BRAINPOWER WITH BAROQUE MUSIC - We have all experienced our brain being affected by music.
• THINK GAME, NOT WAR - There are two ways you can achieve great success. The stressful way and the enjoyable way.
• BREAK YOUR BAD HABITS WITH THE WIPE SYSTEM - We all have some bad habits. Some, like indulging in too many slices of chocolate cake at birthday parties, are nothing to worry about. Others, though, may be putting a ceiling on your success and happiness.
• IF YOU WANT TO STOP FEELING MISERABLE, STOP THINKING OF YOURSELF - If you are constantly feeling down about your life, there is a highly effective tactic that hardly anybody uses.
• DO AN INDECISION PURGE - One of the biggest roadblocks to high achievement is the dark, insidious force of indecision.
• PUT ON SOMEONE ELSE’S HEAD - One of the most crucial skills in today’s world is fresh thinking.
• KNOW YOUR TWO CIRCLES OF CONTROL - When you’re under stress with a mountain of work to do, it’s easy to get flustered and depressed.
• DO A ONE-MINUTE BRAIN REBOOT - Computers work better after a reboot, why not do the same with your brain?
• GET RID OF 50 PERCENT OF YOUR POSSESSIONS - Owning lots of stuff may not seem like it lowers your chances of success, but I believe it does for several key reasons.
• GET THE TRUTH FROM YOUR FRIENDS - I’m a big fan of optimism, but there’s one place we should avoid it as much as possible.
• MAKE YOUR USUAL ANSWER “YES” - Some years ago I realized that anyone could hugely improve the quality of their life by making one simple change to what they did.
• GET SERIOUS ABOUT CELEBRATION - If you’re ambitious to succeed at an unusually high level, you will experience disappointment regularly, as you inevitably fail to meet your own aims and standards.
• DO ONE-MINUTE WORKOUTS - The prevailing opinion of experts on how much exercise you need to be physically fit is three periods of at least 30 minutes a week.
• ALWAYS LOOK FOR THE LIMITING FACTOR - In the early 1980s a management consultant by the name of Eli Goldratt created a way of improving how to manufacture goods. He called it the Theory of Constraints.
• COMPARE YOURSELF TO THE BEST, NOT THE NEAREST - Most people say talent is a wonderful thing to possess. I have seen it ruin many people.
• BE YOUR OWN MOTIVATION COACH - Imagine that you could have a top motivation coach working with you 24/7.
• RUSH THE UNIMPORTANT - In the field of productivity, this is one tactic that is rarely discussed.
• KNOW YOUR PERFECT DAY - You’re about to read one of the most transformative techniques ever devised for personal and career success. It is a brilliant antidote to the all-too-common trap of working too hard for too few results.
• CHANGE YOUR MOOD WITH YOUR POSTURE - Have you ever noticed that someone sad moves unlike someone happy?
• MAKE THE MOST OF CAR TRAVEL - In a typical year, most of us spend hundreds of hours driving. Often alone.
• FOLLOW A MORNING RITUAL - The quality of your emotional state plays a gigantic role in how successful you will be in life.
• LEARN FROM THE TERRIBLE PERFORMERS AROUND YOU - As you stretch yourself to be excellent, you will quickly notice how few people around you are striving to be above average in any substantial way.
• HAVE A WEEKLY ADMIN DAY - Life is messy. Sometimes really messy.
• MAKE THE MOST IMPORTANT CHOICE IN THE WORLD - Although I probably don’t know you, I know quite a lot about you.
• CENTER YOURSELF BEFORE EVERY MEETING - Here’s a super-quick technique that will dramatically improve your performance in any interaction you have with others — business or personal.
• USE SLEEP AS A WEAPON - For decades, many hard-driving, success-oriented people have taken pride in how little sleep they need. I’ve read more than one article where a prominent CEO will boast about only needing four hours a night, implying that it makes them more powerful than the average person who needs more.
• RUTHLESSLY UNSUBSCRIBE - When asked the secret to success, the legendary effectiveness expert Stephen Covey answered: “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”
• READ BOOKS IN ONE HOUR - If we are in the Information Age, then surely one of the most important skills is to read information quickly.
• DO YOUR MOST IMPORTANT TASKS FIRST - I have spent literally thousands of hours studying time management and productivity.
• HEAT AND COOL YOUR BRAIN - If you want to be more successful than the people around you, it pays to look where your competitors aren’t.
• FOLLOW THE TWO-MINUTE RULE - Sick of endless To-Do lists? Tired of the avalanche of emails? Stressed every time you look at your desk, your garage or your files?
• STOP SEEKING EASE AND CALM - There are two fundamental ways to see the world and our place in it.
• CLEAR YOUR MIND EACH EVENING - Here’s a technique that will make you both more successful and give you peace of mind.
• USE THE SCIENCE OF LUCK - Do you believe in luck? Surprisingly, I’ve found that the majority of people do.
• GET SUPER CLEAR ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT - Arguably the most crucial component of success is not intelligence. It ’s clarity about what you want in life and how you’re going to get it.
• CREATE A SET OF FIVE LIFE RULES - Unfortunately, life doesn’t come with an instruction manual.
• CREATE GREAT PLANS IN TEN MINUTES - At the heart of achieving great things is a well-designed framework of carefully considered plans.
• DOUBLE YOUR CHARISMA WITHIN A WEEK - Most people think that charisma is innate. That you either have it or you don’t.
• HAVE A GENUINE PHILOSOPHY OF EXCELLENCE - When I am coaching executives or entrepreneurs, there are two kinds of performance improvement I work on.
• SET UP POSITIVE MENTAL TRIGGERS AROUND YOU - Does your environment lift you up or keep you down?
• TO SUCCEED, INCREASE CONTROL OF YOUR ENVIRONMENT - Here’s a remarkable concept to think about.
• MAGNIFY YOUR FEAR OF LOSS - There are two ways you can motivate yourself to take a lot of action towards fulfilling your goals.
• REMEMBER THE THEORY OF WEAK LINKS - How do you succeed in today’s world?
• JUDGE YOURSELF BY YOUR EFFORT, NOT YOUR RESULTS - There is a popular school of thought that the only thing that counts is your results. If you win big or achieve the goal you’re going for then this should be all that matters.
• HAVE A LIFE PURPOSE - I have some questions for you. Simple questions with truly profound implications. Ready? Okay, let’s go.
• BE INFLEXIBLE, WITH FLEXIBILITY - There’s one sure sign of someone who is going to fail in life.
• BLOCK OUT DAILY THINKING TIME - As you can probably tell, I’m pretty big on efficiency and productivity.
• USE ZBT TO QUICKLY TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE - Do you feel as if you’re stuck in the slow lane and you are not sure how to get out of it?
• USE MY THREE SUCCESS-PROTECTION QUESTIONS - Achieving lasting success can be hard.
• DON’T JUST HAVE DOING GOALS, HAVE BEING GOALS - Lots of ambitious people have goals. Typically, these are goals centered around improving three areas of life: wealth, health and relationships.
• APPLY THE PLUS ONE METHOD EVERYWHERE - When you set out to reach a really big goal, the path to fulfilling it can quickly become pretty disheartening.
• CONCLUSION
• THE TOP THREE METHODS TO HANDLE YOUR SPECIFIC CHALLENGES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS - This book is the result of an enormous amount of work by a team of highly talented and remarkably committed people.
• WORKING WITH SIIMON