Upgrades

UP QUOTES

“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”

Albert Einstein

What can you upgrade? Everything.

The better question is, which areas of your life would upgrading yield you the greatest ROI given your unique values? Is your to do list for today, this week, this month, this quarter, and this year focused on those areas in rank order of their ROI? If not, why not? Let’s change that…

Before you begin remember this: generally speaking, you read for fun and entertainment, but take strategic, practical action if you want to actually achieve goals. The guides below are explicitly designed to help you do that as efficiently and effectively as possible. They include the best 1,157 actions we’ve gleaned from reading literally hundreds of books and papers and working with hundreds of people over 20+ years. Nothing else. Zero long-winded stories. Zero author diatribes. Zero filler.

Please don’t merely read these guides–do them. If you don’t think you can on your own, we can do anything below with or for you. External accountability and extra sets of hands helps enormously. Please don’t wait to work on what matters most to you.

If you’re in or connected to the UP community, feel free to request access to the latest versions below or our entire UP Archive here

Self

Improve your awareness and alignment of your subagent, temporal, and shadow selves

8-page guide

Consciousness

Improve your sentience, peak and altered state experiences, and understanding of mind

6-page guide

Purpose

Improve your life purpose, life planning, life strategy, life design, and life clarity

7-page guide

Values

Improve your terminal values, value ranking, value-action alignment, and integrity

7-page guide

Philosophy

Improve your metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and general worldview

7-page guide

Spirituality

Improve your connection to the transcendent and your deepest sense of being

7-page guide

Goals

Improve the odds you cost-effectively achieve your most important life goals

8-page guide

Impact

Improve the counterfactually-adjusted amount of net good you do for present and future species

7-page guide

Team

Improve your personal team’s versatility, coordination, speed, and cost-effectiveness

20-page guide

Productivity

Improve your work quality and quantity through timely task completion

13-page guide

Time

Improve your time allocations to desired activities by day, week, month, year, and lifetime

10-page guide

Career

Improve your value-alignment, satisfaction, compensation, and career capital

10-page guide & 8-page startup subguide

Financial

Improve your net worth, future earnings potential, portfolio diversification, and security

9-page guide & 19-page cryptocurrency guide

Behavioral

Improve your self-control, procrastination, habits, routines, and rituals

14-page guide

Cognitive

Improve your decision-making, learning, attention, memory, and creativity

15-page guide

Knowledge

Improve the quality and quantity of knowledge accessible in your mind and exocortex

8-page guide

Emotional

Improve your well-being, happiness, stress, anxiety, and emotional intelligence

18-page guide

Leisure

Improve the quality and quantity of your leisure, play, and recreational experiences

8-page guide

Family

Improve your family’s well-being, communication, quality time, and conflict resolution

7-page guide

Relationships

Improve the quality and quantity of your serious and casual romantic partners

10-page guide

Social

Improve the quality and quantity of your personal and professional social networks

9-page guide

Communities

Improve your connection to and support of the communities that which you belong to

6-page guide

Societal

Improve your connection to and support of the societies that which you belong to

6-page guide

Health

Improve your lifespan and energy and reduce diseases, injuries, and medical costs

13-page guide

Fitness

Improve your strength, endurance, physique, weight, mobility, flexibility, and speed

11-page guide

Nutrition

Improve your food’s nutritional value, quality, taste, convenience, and variety

17-page guide

Sleep

Improve your waking and sleeping rituals, duration, quality, efficiency, and dreams

9-page guide

Personality

Improve your character, adaptability, sociability, likability, confidence, and helpfulness

9-page guide

Appearance

Improve your face, teeth, hair, skin, nails, clothing, body language, posture, gait, and voice

13-page guide & 7-page wardrobe guide

Skills

Improve your repertoire and level of desired personal and professional skills

7-page guide

Sex

Improve your sexual access, skill, quality, frequency, safety, variety, and novelty

8-page guide

Perception

Improve your sense of time, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, pain, and direction

6-page guide

Communication

Improve your communication strategy, channels, clarity, efficiency, and response time

9-page guide

Brand

Improve the salience, reach, and impact of your personal and professional brand

9-page guide

Environmental

Improve the usability and aesthetics of your home, office, vehicle, and other favorite spaces

10-page guide & 9-page moving guide

Transportation

Improve your transportation options, comfort, efficiency, routes, safety, and costs

8-page guide

Life Work

Improve your efficiency in managing purchases, doing chores, and handling “life”

7-page guide

Legal

Improve your compliance with applicable local, regional, national, and international laws

7-page guide

Safety

Improve your physical, emotional, epistemic, and digital security systems

8-page guide & 22-page preparedness subguide (public)

Privacy

Improve your offline and online privacy systems, tools, and procedures

7-page guide

End of Life

Improve your will, advance directive, assets transfer, and dead man’s switch protocols

7-page guide

Other

Identify and improve all the other areas of life not otherwise detailed that you value

6-page guide