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How To Accomplish More In A Year Than Most People Do In A Lifetime

Apply these strategies to your life if you want to be successful.

Matt Lillywhite
4 min readAug 12, 2020
Photo by Dollar Gill on Unsplash

Growing up, everyone around me said that I’d never become successful. They thought I’d succumb to a life of mediocrity, and sooner or later, would give up my dream of becoming a writer.

Coming from a small town, that’s what a lot of people seemed to think. However, I refused to give up. It was like there was a little voice in my head saying that I needed to pursue my dream and prove everyone wrong.

So that’s what I did. Every day, I got home from high school and started writing for several hours on my laptop until it was time to sleep. And as a result, I realized my dream and created a full-time income doing something I genuinely love.

From personal experience, I’ve learned that you can accomplish almost anything if you’re willing to do whatever it takes. So if you want to achieve a lot more than you ever thought possible, here are several things you can do to create the life you desire.

Apply The 80/20 Rule To Your Life.

When you focus your time & energy on everything that’s going well, you spend much less time on the things that aren’t. In other words, you need to stop…

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Matt Lillywhite
Matt Lillywhite

Written by Matt Lillywhite

Storyteller and part-time procrastinator. Writing to inspire, entertain, and avoid doing laundry. Substack: https://mattlillywhite.substack.com/subscribe

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