Project Greatness

I wasted my last 3 years. I tried to do so many things and ended up doing nothing.

I tried dropshipping, e-commerce, freelancing, AI Automation Agencies, YouTube channels. I tried every technique to just make something work because I wanted to earn money online.

I failed, not because of the wrong business model, but because I just couldn’t focus on anything.

Here’s how my day went:

• wakeup & go to school

• come back and pretend to work and watch tons of YouTube videos

• at the end, do some actual work for like half an hour

• sleep

This routine was the main problem. If I just sticked to One Thing, I would’ve become the best in that field by now.

But now instead of regretting, I’ve made a decision to completely change my life. I’ve started a project which I call Project Greatness. In this project, I have a simple but hard protocol which I’ll follow every day without any excuse for straight 365 days.

The goals I aim to achieve in this period are:

• Earn my first $10K online

• Learn Arabic & Islam

• Be fit & improve my looks

The Plan

$10K

To earn my first $10K online, I’ll do my One Task everyday non-stop.

My One Task is simply to produce content.

• Write articles on medium & deepstash

• Write newsletter every week

• Create a video a week

• Put content on social media 5 days a week e.g. instagram and twitter

Everyday I’ll do this One Task in the beginning of the day.

The reason to do it in the morning comes from the book, Eat The Frog.

If I were to ask you that you have to eat a frog. You can eat it at breakfast or at dinner. If you eat it at the dinner, you would be continuously thinking about that frog and how disgusting it would be. But if you just close your eyes and eat it in the breakfast, you will have no worries.

Similarly, if you do your most hard task in the beginning of the day, you will enjoy the rest of the day without the feeling of guilt.

By just focusing for 2 hours a day, you can achieve more than 6 hours of unfocused work.

That’s why you can enter the focus state easily in the morning.

Learn Arabic & Islam

Islam is not just salah, fasting, hajj and dhikr. It’s a complete lifestyle. I was unaware of my identity until I started listening to Sahil Adeem.

He completely changed my life. I recommend all of you to listen to his ideas, even if you are not muslim.

Inspired by him, I have taken this upon myself to learn Arabic and understand the holy Quran. It’s not just a book of morals, it’s a book of discipline.

I have previously tried to learn Arabic multiple times and quit every time because it got hard.

Now I’m going to join a paid class to learn it. Because I’m serious about it and I actually want to make progress.

I’m going to join Sahil Adeem’s online school. Here they teach everything related to Islam, like physics, math, arabic and critical thinking.

Be fit & improve my looks

This is the only place where I have improved and have some experience.

After researching for quite a bit, I’ve come to the conclusion that I need to do less but the most effective exercise to not quit.

And that exercise is sprint training. Intense training for 20 - 30 seconds followed by 2 minutes of rest. It’ll help loose me fat and help gain a running skill.

Currently my weight is 76kgs and my target is 65kgs.

Diet also has a very huge impact on fitness. That’s why I’ll

• Eat 2 meals a day

• Eat a lot of protein

• Try intermittent water fasting

• Drink a lot of water in my breakfast window

• Eat less but healthy

These are my main goals that I want to achieve.

More Goals

I have so many interests so I have managed to split them into important and not important. Here are some side quests:

• Learn Physics & Math — half an hour everyday

• Programming — freelance with web development to earn side income with a friend

• Learn Copywriting

• Reduce daily screen time to less than an hour

I’m not a huge fan of working for money, like doing side hustles to earn extra income. Those are just a waste of time.

That’s not my purpose of life, and not yours too. You have a purpose to help humanity in a way that you like. Not to earn money with a business model, you don’t even like but is making everyone millions.

I use google calendar and todoist to manage my daily tasks and schedule. If I don’t schedule a day, it always goes to waste.

So why don’t you create a Project Greatness for yourself and set a goal to improve yourself in a year? It’s not hard. It just requires consistency and dedication.

The newsletter was inspired by a video script I wrote which is going to uploaded on my YouTube Channel very soon. So if you understand Urdu/Hindi, then make sure to watch that video to learn more about Project Greatness.

TIP: starting now is better than starting 5 mins later, because there is no later.