How to Punch the Sunday Jitters in the Face The High Performance Blueprint for Unstoppable CEOs & Founders TK Kader

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    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t. You’re right.”
    -- Henry Ford

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    About the Author, TK Kader

    TK Kader is a business builder, a life and business strategist, and an eternal optimist. He believes that you can achieve anything through belief, discipline and an unstoppable strategy.

    TK worked at Bridgewater Associates (one of the best hedge funds in the world). He then founded ToutApp (backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Jackson Square, two of the best venture capital firms in the world). TK sold ToutApp to Marketo (then owned by Vista Equity Partners, one of the best private equity firms in the world) and was part of the executive team at Marketo that helped drive its transformation and eventual $4.75bn sale to Adobe.

    TK now leads the Unstoppable movement of high performing B2B SaaS CEOs where he helps them build and execute on an Unstoppable Strategy in their life and in their business. He's also the Founder of Instant and Megaphone.

    You can connect with TK [from his website]

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    It Takes a Village...

    Thank you to Sabera Kader and Tawfiq Kader, my parents, who have always encouraged me to pursue my dreams and aim for the stars. 

    For giving me an unbelievable decade of opportunities, growth, life long friendships and for helping me find my own unstoppability through thick and thin, thank you to the ToutApp team and the Marketo team. 

    For encouraging me even before I believed in myself that I had a book in me and that I should dedicate my life's purpose to helping people become unstoppable, thank you to my brother Shahed Kader, and my dear friends Lin Fox and Adria Hou.

    For helping me through countless edits of this book, for encouraging me every step of the way with comments of positivity inside our shared Google document, a special thank you to Ali Mazzotta and Janean Laidlaw. For helping me craft, edit, and publish the 2nd Edition of this book, a special thank you to Islam Obeidat.

    And most importantly, thank you to the Unstoppable community and the incredible SaaS F

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    How to Get Proactive About Your Life and Become Unstoppable

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    You’re rounding out your weekend with friends and family and life is feeling great. As the hours pass through the afternoon and you start to see Monday approaching, you get that pit in your stomach. Call it the Sunday Scaries, the Sunday Jitters, the Sunday Angst or the Sunday existential “What am I even doing with my life?!” -- We’ve all been there.

    I lived my life trying to escape the Sunday jitters, dreading Mondays, and holding my breath through the week just counting down to weekends for all too long until I said enough is enough. I learned (almost too late) in my life that taking a proactive approach to my days led to a calmer me. A less frantic me. This all happened when I developed a simple system to check in on myself every Sunday to get rid of the angst I felt every Sunday afternoon. I started calling it my Unstoppable Sundays.

    In this book, I teach you five actionable steps you can start taking today to get more proactive in your life to become the unstoppab

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    The truth is, I wasn’t always like this. I had Sundays, just like you, where I felt that pit in my stomach. Call it the Sunday Scaries, the Sunday angst, or the Sunday existential “What am I even doing with my life?!” I’ve been there -- and I took the time to read all the books and to research the best ways to break out of it. And I did it. 

    If I could break down my life into parts, I would describe two distinct phases: the BEFORE and the AFTER.

    The BEFORE was when I ran around like a madman, frantic -- trying to eke out every single second I could find toward my work. I’d wake up in the morning, and, with my phone in hand, I’d be brushing my teeth, wrangling on my pants, answering email -- basically all at once. It wasn’t pretty.

    And then there’s the AFTER. The AFTER is when I wake up slowly. I brush my teeth. I meditate. All before I even think of picking up my phone. I make time for family and friends. I put in a solid set of hours toward my most important goals,

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    What's Ahead For You

    In the following chapters, I’ll introduce key ideas to help you create a plan for yourself and to continuously improve upon it:

    In Chapters 1 through 3, I’ll introduce you to the core principles of Dreaming, Belief and Discipline that makes for a proactive life. I’ll also dive into what separates the DABBLERS from the DO-ERS and why visualizing the STATUS QUO of your life will help you conceptualize why changing the trajectory of your life is a MUST.

    In Chapter 4, I’ll introduce you to the concept of a 45-Day challenge. A tool that I’ve used in my life over and over again to drive focused and purposeful change in my life in an easy way.

    In Chapter 5, I introduce you to the idea of practicing Unstoppable Sundays: We’ll teach you to reflect on and plan for the next seven days so that you can eradicate the Sunday Scaries and get proactive about the week ahead...

    In Chapter 6, I help you zoom out and start to think about your one-year plan by answering a set o

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    Dreamers vs Dabblers

    “Whether you think you can, or you think you can't -- you're right.” ― Henry Ford

    An unbelievable 53% of millennials expect to become millionaires during their lifetime. Before you chuckle and scoff “MILLENNIALS” -- it’s not just millennials who dream big: 29% of all Americans believe they will become millionaires. Young people dream big about their lives and have high expectations around living the life they desire, but this motivation simply drops off over time.

    This dream is not about just becoming financially wealthy. It’s about any big and crazy goal that you have -- whether it is to graduate college, start your own business, land that dream job, or become a star athlete. What I’m talking about is becoming exceptional by your own definition. 

    On one hand, you have dreamers; and then, on the other hand, you have those who actually figure out how to make their dreams a reality. What is the difference between these two groups of people? What is the difference between th

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    How to Get Belief

    The dictionary definition of Belief is simple enough: “an acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.”

    What is your dream for your life? You purchased this book because of one simple reason: You know deep down inside that there is more you want out of your life. Your days. Your weeks. 

    When I was 16, I was an immigrant kid born in Bangladesh and living in Queens, New York in a one-bedroom apartment with six people in all. My father worked seven days a week. My mother supported the family and the business. We all pitched in any way we could in order to achieve the American Dream and make a better life for ourselves in New York. I started working for the family business at age 12, handing out flyers for our business at the corner of 74th Street and 37th Avenue -- partly because I just wanted to spend more time with my dad, and partly because I had big dreams even then for myself and my family, and I wanted to do everything that was in my power to have an impact.

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    At age 16, I believed I would be 30 by the time I would be able to get to a point where I could do whatever I want. That dream of “Do whatever I want…” was still alive and well for me as age 30 approached, especially for an immigrant kid who had always had a to-do list of things “I must do so that I can…” get to what I wanted to do. I was willing to dream it, believe it. I was willing to take risks to get it. But in fact, I was far from it as 30 approached. 

    I had a deep belief in what I wanted to accomplish in my life. I had connected with the people who had done it before and had studied them closely. What am I doing wrong?! I thought to myself… It wasn’t adding up.

    I had gotten good at pausing and reflecting. I had gotten great at visualizing the things that I wanted. I even took risks, like quitting my six-figure finance job and starting my own company. I had even had success already, and my software company was just starting to do well with employees, an office and ama

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    In order to become Unstoppable in life, you must realize two things. 

    First, you must realize what Unstoppable is not. It is not about being perfect or achieving perfection. It is not about having all the answers. It is not about flawless execution of your goals. It is going after big lofty goals that inspire us and motivate us, and about expecting there to be  speed bumps, problems, challenges, and obstacles along the way. It is about expecting those things to happen, but having the conviction, mindset and wherewithal to know that no matter what bumps appear in the road, we will find a way to get past them. There will be problems. But all problems have solutions. You are Unstoppable when you find a way to forge ahead with a smile, regardless of the road bumps. 

    Second, you must become great at practicing Dreaming, Belief and Discipline. Dreaming big and having high expectations of yourself and your life. Belief that what you desire and what you imagine in your head

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    Questions to Ask Yourself

    1. What is it that you desire from your life that you are afraid of admitting to anyone else?

    2. What are the things “you don’t know how to do” that are holding you back from achieving your biggest dream of your life?

    3. Nothing overcomes speed bumps and obstacles better than focused and purposeful action. What kind of daily disciplines, weekly disciplines, even monthly disciplines can you adopt to break through these “Don’t KNOWs” in your life?

    4. You’re likely in a space right now where you’re feeling PUMPED and HOPEFUL about the future. Let’s take this moment to practice a quick Unstoppable Sunday (even if right NOW is not a Sunday) together. Just to see how it feels and get you going: Where am I? What do I do next?


    Action Items

    • As you go through your days, start taking stock of the deeply-held beliefs that you constantly reinforce within yourself (good or bad). Write these down on your phone’s Notes application if this makes it easy for you to kee
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    “Success requires no apologies. Failure permits no alibis.” ― Napoleon Hill

    For a major part of my life, I had a fear of success. Early on in life, I wasn’t even aware of such a concept. Once I did find out about it, I at first denied having it, and then it took me years to really grapple with and deal with my fear of success. Before I truly dealt with it, I stumbled through small amounts of success through sheer willpower -- simply because I wanted it bad enough. Once I dealt with it, I unlocked years upon years of success for myself across my personal and business life.

    If one of us were to have a bullet wound in the chest and to be bleeding, people would recognize it right away; we would feel the pain right away; and the entire world around us would come together to help us heal the wound. Immediately.

    Unfortunately, we and the world surrounding us are not likewise equipped to deal with deep-rooted issues like fear of success. And although as a society we’ve grown b

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    How to Break Through Your Fear of Success

    I then came across an exercise that changed my life. The exercise was simple. It was a set of questions that walked me through to an understanding of my core fear and of what exactly was the limiting belief that was holding me back. 

    It first asked: What do you want?

    I want my software company to thrive. I want to have a hundred employees working for me so that we can serve more people, have more customers, make more money, and turn ToutApp into a revenue-generating machine.

    It then asked: What would you have to do to get what you want?

    I knew exactly what I had to do. We had to make our current customers successful. We had to expand our feature set, uplevel our messaging, become more aggressive about getting our word out, and, most importantly, we had to expand our sales capacity so we could sell more.

    I knew the answers! What was holding me back, I wondered?

    **Surely enough, it then asked: What could go wrong if you did those

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    Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Fear of Success

    1. What are you actively working on right now toward achieving in your life?

    2. What would you have to do to get what you want?

    3. What could go wrong if you did those things and were successful? How would it complicate your life?

    4. You’re now successful. Those problems that are your demons are now real. How would you overcome those problems, given your newfound success?

    5. If you are NOT successful, you maintain the status quo and don’t grow, what would happen?

    6. If you ARE successful, what are the positive things that would happen?

    7. What’re you waiting for? What are the immediate steps you can take now to move forward?

    Action Items

    • Go talk to a loved one or a best friend about what you’ve discovered in this chapter. See if he or she, too, has fears of success and compare notes.

    • You’re doing great. Keep going!


    Additional Resources:

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    Your Status Quo

    “The riskiest thing we can do is maintain the status quo” ― Bob Iger

    A two-year study by the McKinsey Global Institute found that by 2030, intelligent agents and robots could eliminate as much as 30 percent of the world’s human labor. That is an estimated 800 million jobs done better, faster, and more precisely by robots in the place of humans. 

    The fear that machines will replace human labor has been an existential fear dating back to the Luddites in the early 19th century. Regardless of whether you believe the end of humans in jobs is a groundless fear or is a real threat, there is one undeniable fact: The rate of change in how our world works and how to earn a decent living is rapidly changing and will deeply impact each of us and our families in our lifetime.

    This begs the question: If the world is changing, and if you do not change, what does the rest of your lifetime look like for you? If you maintain your status quo, what is the trajectory of your life?

    I faced such a

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    Change Your Status Quo for Greatness

    Greatness is an interesting word. I believe we’re all capable of our own definition of greatness, not society’s expectation or definition of greatness, but mine. 

    It made me think: What is my version of greatness? 

    If I’ve lived my life, and I look back, what are the things I will have regretted not trying or not doing? 

    What are the things I am spending time on today that are in conflict with my definition of, vision of, and aspiration toward, greatness?

    What are the things you are spending your time on today that are in conflict with your definition of greatness?

    Greatness to me means that I leave the world better than I found it. Greatness to me means  that I become a better version of myself every single day, and that I am able not only to provide for my family and loved ones, but that I am able to reach a plane of success where I can do what matters. 

    What is your definition of greatness for yourself? What is your vision of your life

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    Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Status Quo

    1. Where will you be in ten years if you maintain the status quo?

    2. What are the great things in your life that exist and that you want to maintain, of the status quo?

    3. What are the things you want to change about the status quo?

    4. What are the big macro worldly trends that may put your life at risk?

    5. Will you be meeting your mirror image or a complete stranger at your deathbed?

    6. What is the ONE thing you can change today that brings you closer to the best dream version of yourself?


    Action Items

    • Building a proactive life for yourself and adopting this framework requires some time every Sunday. Can you commit to even 30 minutes every Sunday to work on this? Will you schedule in time on your calendar to do this?

    • If you’ve got a partner, or a family, or even best friends, can you have a conversation with them about how you will commit to spending this time so that you can become a better version of yourself? Would

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    Change is Hard Without Leverage

    “Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.” ― Robin S. Sharma

    Making changes in life so that you can reap the rewards you want is hard. I’ll be honest. Driving the right kind of change takes focus, it takes discipline, it takes commitment. And in this chapter I’m going to give you a tool that you can use as leverage to drive this change. But let’s first talk about why you need to make a change and why it is important to commit up front to it.

    Congratulations. You’ve just hit a critical inflection point in this book. Over the past few chapters, we talked through what separates the DREAMERS from the DABBLERS. We talked about our deep-rooted fears and the limiting beliefs holding us back. And, most importantly, we took a moment to pause and imagine what life would be like for you if you maintained the STATUS QUO in an ever-changing world. 

    If you’re continuing to read my book, it means one thing: You’re intent on committing to Belief x

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    The 45-Days of Best Mode Challenge

    A 45-Day Unstoppable Beast Mode Challenge consists of the following:

    • Dream and Establish Belief: You set a clear intention and goal that you will work to accomplish over the next 45 days.

    • Commitment: You identify what accomplishing this goal will mean for your life; what it will mean for your life if you DO NOT accomplish it; and then, most importantly, you make a promise to yourself about how you will reward yourself when you do accomplish the goal.

    • Discipline: You establish a schedule for when you will work on this goal, and you create an action plan for how you will accomplish this goal. You also define the key metrics by which you will measure the progress on your goal.

    • Pause and Reflect: You will check in every Sunday on how this goal is progressing. You will course-correct your action plan. And you will tweak your approach to ensure success toward your goal.

    • Win and Build Momentum: At the end of the 45-day period, y

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    The Next 45 Days of Your Life

    Starting with the next chapter, I’m going to begin teaching you the core tools I have used over the past decade, and continue to use today, to live an Unstoppable and proactive life. 

    These tools will help you realize the promise of this book: to live a proactive life and go GET the life that you deserve. The life that your family deserves. The life that your loved ones deserve. So that at your deathbed, you are not meeting a complete stranger, but you are meeting a mirror image of you, the absolute BEST VERSION of you. 

    Here’s the thing, though: You will not succeed in adopting these tools, you will not succeed in adopting these new habits, and you will not succeed in changing the trajectory of your life, if you do not commit. 

    How do you commit?

    We’ll kick off a 45-day Challenge, of course. 

    I want you to kick off a 45-day Challenge starting today -- to adopt the ideas I am going to present to you in the subsequent chapters of this book. 

    I want you to ki

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    Questions to Ask Yourself About Your Next 45-Days

    1. Are you willing to commit to a 45-day Challenge to create a life plan for yourself?

    2. What is my ONE measurable 45-day goal?

    To wholeheartedly adopt the tools presented in the subsequent chapters in this book. At the end of this 45-day Challenge, I will have:

    • Practiced Unstoppable Sundays every Sunday to pause and reflect.
    • Created a 365-day proactive life plan for myself.
    • Created a 365-day proactive life calendar for myself.
    • Created a five-year vision for myself.
    • Created a support network of like-minded and growth-oriented people around me who will support me in my life goal and plan.
    1. What would life look like after I’ve accomplished my 45-day goal?

    2. What will happen to my life if I do not do this now? What does the status quo of my life look like?

    3. How would I dramatically move forward my agenda in my life if I succeed?

    4. How will I celebrate and reward myself when I accomplish this goal?

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    The Sunday Scaries

    “A sunday well spent brings a week of content.” ― proverb

    We’ve all been there. It’s Sunday, and that feeling deep down in our gut starts to creep in. It’s the pre-Monday, “Oh-God-why-isn’t-this-a-four-day-weekend?” dreary feeling. It’s the “What am I even doing with my life?” feeling. It’s the “I love my job. I love my job. I love my job… If I keep saying it, it’ll come true...” feeling. It’s the feeling that lingers through Monday and into Wednesday, as you count down to the weekend, feeling -- and it's the “hamster-wheel-of-life” feeling, because you’ve been on it for nearly a decade and you’re not quite sure whether it’s worth it all.

    Where am I even going?

    At 27, I felt like I had it all. As an immigrant kid from Bangladesh who had spent the first ten years of his life there, then moved to grow up in Flushing, Queens in a one-bedroom apartment where six people lived together -- now, my townhouse, my sports car with the red leather seats, my double degree in Computer S

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    These two questions of Where am I? and What do I do next? are seemingly simple. Here’s how to think about answering them and why they are just so powerful.

    Where am I?

    This question is designed to help you take stock of where you are right now in your life.

    • How would I describe my current situation?

    • What am I feeling? Anger? Frustration? Happiness? Anxiousness? Worry?

    • What are my current sources of anxiety? What am I worried about?

    • What’s going on in my inner monologue? You know… that pesky voice inside our heads…

    • Not only is it incredibly cathartic to get it all out of my head and onto paper, but this process of writing and articulating what is going on in my head and my subconscious also allows me to gain a deeper understanding around exactly what I am feeling, and it’ll do the same for you.

    What Do I Do Next?

    • One of the core principles of Unstoppable is purposeful and focused ACTION. Raise hell and be badass, I say. _Go pu
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    1. How do you typically feel on a Sunday afternoon as you start to think about Monday and the week ahead?

    2. What are the things you typically “escape” to so that you do not have to think about the week ahead? What do you do to ignore or “feel better but not solve” the angst and the pit in your stomach on a Sunday afternoon or evening?

    3. What are the non-negotiable commitments that you have on a Sunday afternoon that you must do and cannot get out of? These are okay to have, let’s just acknowledge those things here.

    4. When on a Sunday could you schedule in 15 to 30 minutes on your calendar, or an alarm on your phone, so that you are reminded to pause and reflect? What small “escapism” on a Sunday could you delay or give up so that you can start to get proactive about your life and your coming week?

    5. Let’s try our first Unstoppable Sunday (even if right NOW is not a Sunday) together. Just to see how it feels and get you going.

    Where am I?

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    The Next 365 Days of Your Life

    “Tomorrow, is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.” ― Brad Paisley

    In order to be successful in life, you need an unstoppable strategy, and a plan to implement that strategy through purposeful and focused ACTION. 

    Strategy can be a complicated word; it can even seem fru-fru when you think of it in the context of your own life. But it doesn’t have to be. In fact, it shouldn’t be. 

    Great strategy is the efficient organization of resources. Your resources. Your most precious resources, such as your time, your money, your conscious attention, and, most importantly, the inner monologue of your mind.

    When you think of strategy in simple terms like that, all of a sudden it sounds absolutely crazy that so many of us go through life without having thought through a strategy (an efficient organization of our resources) that we can tether ourselves to and improve over time as we learn. 

    For all of us, regardless of how much money we have in the

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    Escaping The Flawed System of Goal Setting

    Truth is, you can go to the most prestigious schools and universities, yet never will you actually find a class on how to create a strategy and plan for your life.

    1. First, we completely overestimate how much we can actually accomplish in the 365 days of the year. First, 365 days, or a year, feels like a long time. But when you really break it down, out of the 365 days, there are only 261 working days, and after you take away vacation days, you’re down to 247 working days, and after you subtract sick days, down time, and family commitments, you’re left with a mere 220 days, or roughly seven-and-a-half months out of every year to really take action on your goals.

    2. Second, we don’t set up a system to be proactive about our yearly goals as we work through the year. So, we become uninspired about our goals, we forget them, and we return to just reacting to the day-to-day. Finally, the next year rolls around, and we ask ourselves: “Where did the time go?!” o

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    How to Build Your 365-Day Unstoppable Plan

    You’ll first answer a set of questions that helps you to reflect and learn from the prior year:

    1. What are the things I am grateful for?

    2. What are the things I am stressed about?

    3. What are my key accomplishments over the past year?

    4. Looking back, what did I say I would accomplish in the past year? How did this go?

    5. Looking back, what is the ONE weakness of mine that held me back the most during the past year?

    Again, just as with the Unstoppable Sundays exercise, don’t overthink it. All that is important is that you put your thoughts on paper (or screen), so that they’re not just percolating in your head.

    Once You’ve Gone Through the First Set of Questions, Here’s How You Will Be Feeling:

    • You’ll have a renewed sense of the events and circumstances that happened during the past year and that you are thankful for. Our memories are incredibly flawed, and we often have recency bias. Thinking back through the past year and id
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    1. Do you typically set New Year's Resolutions? Do you write down goals for yourself every year? What usually happens to them?

    2. How often do you review and check in on your goals throughout the course of a year? If you did it more regularly, would you have been more likely to pursue the right goals and crush them?

    3. What would happen if you sat down, wrote down your goals, and checked in on them every three months to course-correct?


    Action Items

    • Schedule a time into your calendar or set an alarm on your phone for every 45 days to write down, review, and iterate on your goals.

    • Pick a spot where you can have some peace and quiet so you can practice goal setting for your life.

    • Download our 365-day goal setting template, set it up, and start to commit to creating a 365-day proactive plan for yourself.

    • Onwards!


    Additional Resources:

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    There’s a famous saying: “Show me your calendar, and I’ll show you your priorities.”Now that you’ve gotten into the practice of Unstoppable Sundays, and have started to think through your attack strategy for the next 365 days, there’s ONE EVIL THING IN YOUR LIFE that you’ve got to eradicate — and that’s your calendar as it stands right now.Whether we realize it or not, much of our lives is spent according to priorities set by others, who decide what they want us to be doing. Whether it is meetings at work, family commitments on weekends, or those work trips that we’re endlessly on — we spend all those hours and days constantly REACTING.

    Regardless of what we put on our to-do lists, despite our New Year's Resolutions, and notwithstanding the intentions we set at the beginning of the day -- ultimately it is what is on our calendars that dictates how we spend our time.

    So the question then becomes: What is on your calendar? Who is setting the agenda for how y

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    To help you map out and become proactive about the next 365 days of your life, we’ve created a spreadsheet that helps you map out your whole year. This spreadsheet gives you a MACRO view of your 365 days, instead of being zoomed in to just this week -- or, even worse, just today — which is how we often approach our calendars. Using this spreadsheet, you’ll be able to take a step back and ask yourself some important questions:

    1. How many days of the next 365 are already committed? (hint: More than you think.)

    2. How many of those commitments are actually important?

    3. How many days have I set aside and committed to accomplishing my life goals?

    4. How do I plan out the next 8, 12, even 24 weeks of my life so that I know to prioritize and be PROACTIVE about the most important things?

    Once you’ve completed this exercise, you’ll have realized and sorted through a few key things:

    1. First, 365 days
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    1. Have you taken stock of all the time commitments you have through the course of the year? Where will you spend Thanksgiving? Long weekends? Are there critical trips that you have for this year that you still need to plan and account for?

    2. If you could, what are the three key things you’d proactively schedule for yourself throughout the course of the year? Vacations? Long Weekends? A half-day to check in on your goals? A girls’ or guys’ trip?

    3. What would happen if you mapped out your time commitments and also time for yourself ahead of time in a proactive way instead of having to tend to it last minute?


    Action Items

    • Make a list of all of your big time commitments for the next 365 days.

    • Make a list of the trips, activities, and time you’d like to schedule FOR YOURSELF for the next 365 days.

    • Download our 365-day calendar template, set it up, and start to c

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    “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” ― Bill Gates

    I agree. This is why it is super important that you start to take a longer view on life and what you want to accomplish. But before we get into that, let’s just take a moment and recognize how far we’ve come in your journey toward thinking about living a more proactive life.

    • In Chapter 5, we introduced you to the idea of practicing Unstoppable Sundays, as we taught you to reflect on and plan for your upcoming seven days.

    • In Chapter 6, we helped you zoom out and start to think about your one-year plan by answering a set of very pointed questions that help you practice gratitude, assess where you are today, and then start to lay out a plan for the next 365 days.

    • In Chapter 7, we introduced a new tool that you can use to become proactive about the 365 days you’re given every year, so that you can be proactive about how you spend your days an

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    You’ll first answer a set of questions that helps you to reflect and learn from the five-year (similar to the one-year) exercise:

    1. What are the things I am grateful for?

    2. What are the things I am stressed about?

    3. What are my key accomplishments over the past five years?

    4. Looking back, what did I say I would accomplish in the past five years? How did this go? Are these goals still relevant?

    5. Looking back, what are my strengths and secret powers? You’ve worked on quite a bit over the past five years: Identify the key skills and capabilities you’ve developed to a point of mastery.

    Again, just as with the Unstoppable Sundays and 365-day exercises, don’t overthink it. All that is important is that you articulate your thoughts on paper (or screen), so that they’re not just percolating in your head. 

    Once you’ve completed these questions, you’ll have (again) gotten a great handle on just how far you’ve come from five years ago. You’ll have identified

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    Creating a vision for ourselves and a plan for our lives never makes it to the top of our priority lists. And yet doing so can have such a profound impact on our lives, on our ability to provide for ourselves and our loved ones and our family.

    1. What was the last emergency that came up in your life where you had to completely reorder your schedule to tend to the matter at hand?

    2. What did you do to recover from having to take time away for the emergency? How bad did it get? Were you able to get back on track and on schedule?

    3. What would happen if you treated creating this life plan for yourself like an emergency?What activities could you pause briefly to tend to this matter at hand?


    Action Items

    • Identify time on your calendar where you can take a half-day: perhaps it is time gained by skipping a party, or not watching a movie, or even by playing hooky from work… So that you can take some time, create some space, and tend
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    “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” ― Jim Rohn

    In this final step, as you’re hopefully deep into doing Unstoppable Sundays and executing on your life goals, I want to talk to you about your community of friends and family. 

    Who are the five people you spend the most time with? Are they as growth-minded as you? Are they taking a proactive approach to life? Truth is, unless you support yourself with other growth-minded people, you will not grow. The inertia is just too much. 

    In an earlier chapter, I mentioned that there are TWO key reasons why people can’t switch from being DABBLERS to DO-ers. There are TWO key reasons why people can’t switch from hoping and dreaming to actually achieving. These are the same TWO key reasons that account for the BEFORE in my life and the AFTER in my life:

    1. The Dabblers don’t have the right actionable framework to go make change happen.

    2. The Dabblers

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    1. Who are the five people you spend the most of your work and leisure time with? A good trick to figuring this out is looking at your phone and seeing the five people you text the most often.

    2. If you were to print out your wildest goals over the next five years and show it to each of them, how would they react? Would they laugh? Would they be skeptical? Would they think you’re crazy? Who in the group would say, “Yeah… Let me show you my goals…”

    3. If you were to look beyond your big five, and think about everyone you know, who is pushing him or herself and going after the same type of goals as you? Who is the person who is chasing down their dreams with the level of energy, belief, and discipline that is needed to actually achieve those goals?


    Action Items

    • Who are the people in your life who are holding you back from achieving your goals?

    • Who are the people in your life who inspire you and are pushing as hard as you sho

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    I learned (almost too late) in my life that developing a PROACTIVE approach to my days led to a calmer me. A less frantic me.

    I spent a significant part of my youth as a person who constantly wanted to do “what’s right.” I wanted to please others, especially my elders and my parents. I grew up inclined to think about optics and how things look, and I prioritized things that I thought would bring me happiness -- but that ultimately failed to do so. I became incredibly great at setting and crushing goals, but they consistently turned out to be the wrong goals.

    Through my 20s, I constantly did things based on what I thought society expected of me -- or what I thought you were supposed to do. This desire to please others led to me marrying a wonderful person at the young age of 25 -- which led to a divorce. It led me to pursue a job in finance that produced career success, but left me wholly unfulfilled. Ultimately, I discovered that I

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    We’re at the end, Dear Reader. I’m so incredibly excited for you.

    Here’s what you can do next.

    1. Please write a 5-star review on Amazon and tell others who you think will enjoy this book. Spreading the word helps to reach new readers, grow this movement and the continued production of similar content.

    2. Subscribe to our Unstoppable Sunday web-based platform so you can continue the momentum by practicing Unstoppable Sunday every week. We've built out the application to help you pause and reflect every week, every month, and execute daily with certainty.

    3. If you’re entrepreneurial or are already running a company, I also invite you to watch my Youtube channel where I apply these principles in becoming a High Performing CEO and Founder to build an unstoppable strategy for your business.

    I wrote this book because I wanted to pay forward the blessings I received in my life and

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