Upgrades
UP QUOTES
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
What can you upgrade? Everything.
The 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
