By Dan Remon
2021 was another phenomenal year of growth and learning, and I’m grateful for a lot of it.
I ran a training for my Evolve Mastermind members on my biggest learnings from the year, and how to use that feedback to expand and evolve in 2022, whatever lay ahead. Here are 5 of them. Take what’s useful.
My 5 biggest learnings from 2021
In short: your circle of influence and accountability is the key to growth, so choose it carefully. Rest and enjoy your results, but don’t stay comfortable for long. Think bigger and ask powerful questions, because your brain will always take the easy option. Build systems around your energy and output instead of leaving them to chance. And face your truth: look at your patterns as they are and own what happens next.
1. Your CIA is critical
Your Circle of Influence and Accountability is the key to growth and achievement. Choose it wisely. Find mentors and coaches, and people who are like-minded, committed and accountable, to raise your standards and keep you true to your word. They inspire you with their action and their tenacity to evolve.
2. Don’t stay comfortable
It’s fine to disengage, regenerate your focus and energy, or enjoy the results of your efforts. Just don’t stay there too long. Keep evolving. Master the art of getting comfortable in discomfort.
3. Think bigger and ask powerful questions
Your brain will always take the easy option. That leads to complacency and a lack of vision and growth.
Build anchors to reflect, assess and decide what comes next. Start your questions with “What’s next”, “What if I” and “How can I”.
4. Build strategic systems
Systems are the critical anchors that optimise energy, focus, clarity, motivation, mental health and ferocious action. If you haven’t built systems around energy and production, you have little direction, purpose or opportunity to create your best life. Don’t leave it to randomness.
5. Face your truth
Your future is in your hands. Look back at the year gone by, and the years before it. Check whether you achieved what you set out to do. Look for repeating patterns, like projects you never finish or goals you set yourself and never reach. Decide where you want to be 1, 3 and 5 years from now.
If you don’t change the way you’ve done things in the past, you’ll get the same outcome. Decide whether that’s acceptable to you.
Your values and your truth are your responsibility. Own it.
What 26 weeks of the Evolve Mastermind taught me
The Evolve Mastermind held me accountable to deliver every week, 26 weeks straight. Watching our ‘Legends’ evolve through a challenging year, with contagious momentum and a commitment to living as their best future selves, was rewarding. I’m looking forward to seeing them keep building their success.
I actually learn more from them. Nothing gives me more energy than watching our clients reach the life they set out to build.
My question to you: how committed are you to evolving, and where do you want to be 12 months from now?
How to start
Learning 5 starts with an audit. You can’t upgrade what you refuse to audit.
- The 1% Scorecard. 8 questions, 2 minutes, free. You get a score out of 100 and the one thing to install first.
- The Quest. My performance membership, run in 28-day cycles on the Stealth OS. Each cycle installs one change, with a room of founders who run on standards behind you. Cancel anytime.
- The 1% Mastermind. My invite-only action and accountability group, for when you want a circle like the one in learning 1.
Related reading: 7 tips for creating a clear vision for your life, Visualization leads to actualization: how to make it work and 10 signs you have a limited mindset, and how to change it.
