have you ever questioned whether the path you're on is really leading you towards your dream life and even if it is is it the most effective way or are there other paths you should consider this is where the bottleneck approach comes in it's going to help you continuously identify the most direct path to achieving your dreams and it's going to cut through all the noise and distractions that may lead you astray you're going to find insights from start to finish in this video that could provide you with a piece you've been missing so make sure
to watch all the way through that's let's get into it before applying the bottleneck approach we need to identify two things your current situation and your desired situation where your desired situation is your dream life to do this you need to divide your life into different main areas it differs from person to person depending on their values and priorities but let's say we have the areas work relationship and health and you can divide it even further into finance that impact for work romantic family and friends for relationships physical health and mental health for health next
up is scoring yourself at your current situation how would you score yourself in each of these eras from 1 to 10 let's say you have 5 out of 10 for finance 6 out of 10 for impact 5 out of 10 for romantic 6 out of 10 for family and friends seven on physical and 7 out of 10 on Mental Health after scoring your current situation you need to do the exact same for your desired situation to score your descided situation you can think of it through this question what points would you need to have in
these areas to achieve and live your dream life let's say we have 8 out of 10 for finance 8 out of 10 for impact 9 out of 10 for romantic 9 out of 10 for family and friends 10 out of 10 for physical health and 8 out of 10 for mental health now we can finally move on to the bottleneck approach to understand the bottleneck approach you can first imagine a tube bottle or something where water can flow through and imagine that the amount of water that is able to flow through this point is the
same as the amount of progress you're able to make in life now imagine there's an object at this point preventing water from flowing through this object represents the bottleneck and unless you remove this bottleneck the water will never be able to flow through in other words unless you remove this bottleneck you're never going to be able to make progress in life to make this more concrete let's look back at our main erors again we see that for all our main erors we are lacking in points in other words they are all constraining us from our
dream life but at any moment in time there's only going to be one bottleneck let's say that Finance is the bottleneck if Finance is the bottleneck that means that all the other main areas are not the bottleneck now that sounds very obvious but it still needs to be said because it seems like a lot of people don't understand the implication of this and the implication is that when Finance is the bottleneck it doesn't matter that you're leveling up your physical health romantic relationships or mental health because they are not the bottleneck no matter how much
effort you put into all the other eras you're not going to effectively level up your life Finance is still the bottleneck it's going to keep preventing water from flowing through and you from progressing in life until you've solved it when you're able to solve the bottleneck water is finally going to come rushing through and this is the equivalent of you experience massive progress in your life enjoy this progress but remember what I've said earlier any moment in time there always going to be a bottleneck so after solving Finance as the bottleneck a new one is
going to appear it could be your family and friends it could be your mental health this is something you need to identify and figure out for yourself a tip I want to give for the process of solving a bottleneck is that after identifying the bottleneck you can start identifying the bottleneck for the bottleneck so if Finance was the bottleneck you can start to find the bottleneck for finance and you can drill it down like this all the way until you have an actional step you can take right now when you identify a bottleneck and start
drilling down to a more specific thing it's not always as simple as a skill you're lacking or information you're missing it might very well be a complex mindset issue like not believing you enough or fear of judgment from other people could even be a past traumatic experience that you need to heal from as it is affecting your current thoughts and [Music] actions that is all for this video and if you enjoy this make sure to hit the Subscribe button or check out the next video that is linked here and if you want to get even
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