Safety & Security, Self-Mastery, UnconditionalRelationship, Worldly, Financial Freedom, Holistic Fitness
Joshua Tiong
Our Six Pillars for Purposeful Living

This has been frequently requested of me ever since my earlier post about ‘The Six Month Conversation’ resonated with so many people. This follow up is about the framework Alexis and I devised with hopes of guiding our life journey together independently and as a couple. I know this post is arriving several years late, after tons of requests, so thanks everybody for your patience!

Our Six Pillars for Purposeful Living
,

Shitty First Drafts

,
Shitty First Drafts

I (somewhat) recently attended Traction Conf 2016. The second day of this event opened with a fireside chat between Justin Kan of Y Combinator and Kristina Shen of Bessemer Ventures. The conversation was generally interesting and useful, but there was one specific idea that stood out to me the most: 

The Shitty First Draft

The idea that one should put something out when it's reached a basically useful state (a.k.a. MVP), become motivated that it's in the public (ish) sphere, and continue to iterate upon this first draft to make progressive improvements. 

Characteristics of People Admired

Characteristics of People Admired

In an effort to develop a playbook of effective patterns, my fiancee and I came up with a list of people that we admire and respect at our current point in life. We wanted to see what they had in common as baseline characteristics and how this manifested in their behaviours. These are mostly people we've worked or volunteered with to have been witness to them “in action”. We did a general assessment of each of their qualities to determine which they had in common and we could strive to develop in ourselves.