Here is my daily action list to achieve it:

1. Intention first: Be honest by speaking, acting and thinking.

2. Impact matters: Be influencer, not influenced!

3. Be Hero, Be Next: Play big, or quit before start!

4. Be crazy but not stupid: Make friends, not obstacles!

5. Be Proactive, not Reactive: Change or leave!

6. Dream more, ask more, do more: Cannot keep success unless aim double it!

7. Do together more: Distributive approach, not individual!

8. Invest on people: Each $ Counts! Not the one in your pocket!

9. Be data driven, distinct, specific: Take risk it is fun!

10. Do 1 thing 10k times: Try 10k things to find 1 thing!

Five components of showing up: intention, energy, presence, action and skills, and impact:

There is connection between intention and energy. Oftentimes, people try to hide their intention, so from our side it requires a lot of computational energy to figure it our, based on what they said previously, facial expression and actions. But, once we gain trust on this people, we spend less energy and rely on what they say. So, for my case, the tough one is presence, to focus. Due to curiosity, to do many things, could be hard to focus. That is why, better try to write things down in daily basis to get less distracted. Due to my highest attention to intention it is easiest one to gain, but when meet new people , it takes a bit time, to create this conviction. Impact could be highest leverage, for those either of nature, or having multi country educational background and work experience.

There are few tricks to make it happen if not come by nature. We should not put obstacles between ourself and people or try to show up as “smart” and letting them feel we are better than them. By keep smiling is a first step to not scare, rather feel brave when talk to us. Listening and trying to understand before starting to talk them, making excuse even don’t feel we have to, asking help or question, even afraid being shamed.

Three options we have: quit, wait, act.

1. Quit — accept glass is empty, the end.

2. Wait — hope one day will rain, and we survive.

3. Act — Imagine there is somewhere ocean, take a bottle and start moving, ask people on the way, some will say no, some will say yes… The path can be short or long, easy or tough…

Random Notes

1. Success is cover page of a failure book. Love, focus, try.

2. Be failed, ignored, rejected but not stopped.

3. Nobody is wrong, adjust your body.

4. Leadership is about finding and solving problem, rather getting rid of them.

5. Do what u can, with what u have, where u are.

6. Inspire over show over explain over tell.

Firstly, we need to define 2 north stars, one in career and another in personal life. These stars or goals should not be feasible to reach in our current case, unless any magic happens. For example, I would like to run a billion-dollar company which impact millions of people’s life every day and inspire them to achieve more, to be more precise shift minds to stop being shamed for failures and be proud of them and learn from them, or from failures of others. For personal life, I would like to meet X person with similar experiences I have and common core values.

After defining our north stars, we need to make a plan. As we know from Software Engineering practice there are 2 methodology, one is Waterfall which is plan driven and another is incremental change Agile methodology. We are going use Agile. The rules are simple, but firstly, we need second person to do pair programming with who we will collaborate to reach our north stars. Below are next steps:

1. Once every two weeks called sprint, we need to do detailed planning for upcoming 2 weeks.

2. In order to easily track our progress, we can use free tool called Trello.

3. Considering 1 point is 1 hour, and day is 24 points maximum, we could benefit.

4. By excluding 7 sleep points, 2 points for eating, and 9 points for work, and depending on day in average need to wisely use our left 6 points.

5. We call tasks in our TODO list, story and assign approximate points to each, can add checklist inside story as well.

6. Every day, for 10–15 minutes meet with our teammate in Skype, WhatsApp, Slack etc. called “Daily Standup” to discuss our past day, if any blocking points and plan for coming day. There could be time not able to meet time agreed, but still should keep updates by brief writing in channel we selected.

7. Only must have meetings from Monday to Friday, leave weekends for random stuff. We should keep it light and fun.

8. The concept helps to have at least 1 outside view for daily tasks planning, and review after completed, feeling more committed for promises better than we give to ourselves.

9. We need to write our “show up credo”, do personal assessment test and review it together as well.

10. Apart from ourselves, we need to assign small tasks to each other, such as “tell, smile or help to 3 people today”, or “make initiative to be guest speaker in one of schools”.

Conclusion: Enjoy eating the elephant one bite at a time :)

Note: List is still under development and I am planning to keep updating it, where people from all over the world can apply concept to their life and achieve together more, the number of people can be more than 2 as well, but need to keep it as minimum as possible in order not to have longer standup meetings and feel comfortable to share our private life insights.

Even though already mentioned in my previous article, “Build future now”, would like to end up this article with same quote: “Use my lifelong energy, time and skills to serve others to make the world without borders better place to live!”