The Calendar Effect

Have you ever woken up on a Sunday and immediately realised you can take the day off?

How about getting to 5pm and believing that the day’s work has been complete?

What about having a life goal you’d like to accomplish, but refusing to start until January 1st?

This is the Calendar Effect.

This effect holds you back in life more than anything else you know.

In order to move forward and achieve your ideal life setup, you have to understand the true timeline of life.

You’re born and you die, everything in between is a straight line of consistent speed that will not stop for anyone. When you’re taking the weekend off life continues on. When you wait for January 1st even though it’s September, life relentlessly burns through 4 months of your existence.

It’s a scary thought, and it somewhat removes any enjoyment. However, this emphasises the importance of frontloading lives work in order to provide freedom to later years.

Man-Made

You must understand for mentality purposes the trickery of the man-made calendar.

Many will go through their entire life believing that weekends, birthdays, holidays, days of the week and months are real. They end up living their life based on what the calendar or the clock suggests.

Just take the average week as an example. Work 5 days take 2 off. Work from 9am and finish at 5pm. These two facts alone create a lazy and limited belief in the mind of those who could potentially be great.

The average man gets home at 5pm, puts his feet up and watches TV rather than working on his dream. Why? Because you cannot possibly work outside of 5pm! “I’ve been at work all day I just don’t get time”. Is a common phrase we hear.

Second scenario; A man gets to Friday, feels relieved and takes the entire weekend off relaxing with his friends, spending money and going out on dates. If quizzed as to why, the man would simply respond; “Well it’s the weekend, what else am I meant to do”?

This right here, is the entire game of average or successful. A successful man will understand the Calendar Effect, he will see life as one long line and anything he does early will reward him for longer.

In other words, frontloading.

A man with success in his future will finish his 9 to 5 job and work from 7pm to midnight on his dream because he doesn’t see limits, he just sees time. This same man will get to Friday, work until midnight, then wake up at 5am the following day to knockout a 24-hour weekend shift, 12 hours per day on his dream.

The more you detach from the calendar and the clock the more productive you become.

Many people will naturally wake up at 4am, smile, roll over, and go back to sleep knowing they have 3 hours until their alarm goes off. They do this because 4am signifies sleep not work, this is because the clock rules them.

A driven person will say, if I’m up, I’m up, and then proceed to work.

Across the period of a single year, we waste a ridiculous amount of time and ruin our potential. Here are some examples;

• 2 weeks off for Christmas

• Don’t start anything new until January 1st

• Do not work on weekends

• Do not work after 5pm

• Do not start work until 9am

• Always take your birthday off

• 3 years at Uni means I must follow the pace of the course

• Bank holidays or special days such as 4th of July I must relax

• I must spend £1000 at Xmas, get fat and abuse my body with alcohol

• I must eat bags of chocolate at Easter

• I must take a summer vacation and my mind believes it’s okay to spend £2000 doing so

These are just a few examples of how someone’s life falls hilariously short from where they could have been. Take an 18-year-old man as an example:

• Goes to Uni

• Gets drunk every weekend

• Gets drunk on student nights

• Goes to class 2 days per week

• Lives his life based on September to May and then gets a summer job

• Plots his entire spending around student loan payments

• Stays at Uni for 3 years and follows the schedule even though everyone knows you could pass the same course in 6 months if you had elite level focus

(Just think about this for a second. People waste 3 years of their life, doing something that could’ve taken 6 months if they were to work daily instead of mixing it in with the parties and wasted days. However, Universities are a business and they stretch the course out to increase profits)

Don’t be a slave to the calendar.