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…

Self

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

Consciousness

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

Purpose

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

Values

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

Philosophy

Improve your metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and general worldview

Spirituality

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

Goals

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

Impact

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

Team

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

Productivity

Improve your work quality and quantity through timely task completion

Time

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

Career

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

Financial

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

Behavioral

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

Cognitive

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

Knowledge

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

Emotional

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

Leisure

Improve the quality and quantity of your desired leisure experiences

Family

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

Relationships

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

Social

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

Communities

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

Societal

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

Health

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

Fitness

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

Nutrition

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

Sleep

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

Personality

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

Appearance

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

Skills

Improve your repertoire of personal and professional skills

Sex

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

Perception

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

Communication

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

Brand

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

Environmental

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

Transportation

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

Life Work

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

Legal

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

Safety

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

Privacy

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

End of Life

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

Other

Identify and improve all the other areas of life that you value