Why Billionaires Do Less (Not More)

Many of the billionaires I work with come to me to grow even bigger, better, more inventive companies while learning the proven systems and protocols to slow down, get super healthy, fill their days with more love and handcraft beautiful personal lives. 

To be helpful to your rise, one of the ways I mentor them in achieving this delicate balance includes deleting the complexity from their businesses so they become monomaniacally committed to doing far less yet becoming masterful at the few pursuits that deliver the largest results. This is about what I call “Conscious Minimalism” versus “Reactive Maximalism.” Please don’t chase every shiny toy of an opportunity that comes your way. It’ll destroy your company. And degrade your home life.

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Minimalism is often considered as a design philosophy, right? It's like very stark, very sparse, sometimes industrial, lots of white, not a lot of things. It's like you go into a boutique hotel and it's designed by Philippe Starck, the great French designer, and it's very minimalist. What I'm encouraging you to do with great love and respect is to be ultra-productive. Adopt the mindset of learned minimalism. Now I've worked with a lot of the most creative and productive people on the planet. I've worked with billionaires and CEOs. I've worked with true titans. Here's one thing I've observed in them. They understand that the secret to genius is not complexity, it's simplicity. If you look at a Picasso of any industry, if you look at a great artist, they didn't fill their workdays and their personal lives with a lot of things. They filled them with a few things. I guess what I'm suggesting to you is one of the secrets to iconic productivity is be monomaniacally focused at being world class at just a few things. And if you look at any great artist, any great entrepreneur, any great business-builder, any great author, any great humanitarian, they were monomaniacally focused on one thing. They were minimalists. And so what I want to leave you with is this. Maybe this year, rather than having 50 projects that you want to achieve at the highest level, maybe pick three. This year, or maybe the next few months, rather than trying to read 20 audiobooks, 50 e-books, go to five courses, why not focus on one course and one audiobook?And why not study one great autobiography? Maybe it's... Isaacson's autobiography of Steve Jobs, maybe it's Nelson Mandela's autobiography. I am encouraging you to really adopt this thinking protocol of becoming a minimalist. Even your home, fill it with just a few things. Even your work life, just a few projects. Even your clients, just the highest leveraged clients. And especially your days. Focus, focus, focus on just those few priorities. that when you roll up your sleeves and go deep in them and invest what I call the trinity of your assets, your focus, your energy, and your willpower on those few things, they will allow you to birth art into the world, which will allow the world to call you world-class.