Personal Top Priority
dennyzhang
URL: https://quantcodedenny.com/posts/personal-top-priority/
🌟 Vision
Live a healthy, confident, and wealthy life — balanced across family, personal growth, and financial freedom. Focus on high-leverage actions and eliminate noise.
🎯 Key Objectives (FCM)
1. Family — Build a Healthy and Happy Family
- Stay emotionally connected with kids and spouse
- Maintain routines for health and stress management
Daily / Weekly Goals
- 15–30 min 1:1 focused play with kids (3x/week)
- Evening family meal without devices (2x/week)
- Weekly 30-min sync with spouse to review week and connect
- Exercise 2–3x per week, sleep 7h/night
- Plan 1 weekend activity per month with family
- Avoid overthinking or struggling too long in dead ends
2. Confidence — Strengthen Personal and Professional Growth
- Increase professional market value
- Improve appearance and communication skills
- Build meaningful, positive connections
Daily / Weekly Goals
- Attend design reviews weekly
- Practice 5–10 min daily communication exercise (storytelling, presentation, or elevator pitch)
- Weekly self-reflection on appearance or communication improvement
- Publish or present 1 idea per quarter
- Avoid overthinking or setting too many small, fragmented goals
3. Money — Grow Wealth with Leverage
- Earn through smart, sustainable investing
- Focus energy on high-return opportunities
Daily / Weekly Goals
- Track key financial metrics weekly and lessons learned
- Delegate or outsource low-value tasks
- Avoid over-optimizing trivial details
⚙️ Guiding Principles
1. Prioritize What Truly Matters
- Focus on high-impact tasks
- Say no to low-value work or non-essential goals
2. Evolve Mindset Continuously (E6 → E7 Upgrade)
- Think in systems and first principles — solve root causes, not symptoms
- Apply growth mindset — treat mistakes as learning opportunities and embrace ambiguity
- Create leverage — empower others, clarify processes, and automate repeat work
- Lead through influence — align people and decisions without authority
- Default to reflection > reaction
3. Spend Smartly to Earn More
- Buy time and energy via good services
4. Build systems and habits that compound over years, not weeks
local notes
make informed decision - identify the better way
skills: identify the key challenges, historical context and incentives behind
skills: drive executions with conflicts
skills: have deep conversations
skills: identify and sell the business values of your work
skills: know when to say no
skills: talk in a way people want to engage and help
habits: don’t set small goals
habits: don’t talk without clear goals or actions, as nothing will change
habits: focus on key challenges and bottlenecks
habits: stay curious - engage in learning new context and knowledge
habits: talk and learn from others
mindset: dare to challenge the status-quo
mindset: focus on busines wins; focus on feedback of stakeholders of performance review.
mindset: mostly you need to make trade-off; you can’t have them all
mindset: focus on the progress for key problems
mindset: everyone has their own situations and desires
habits: avoid vague yes - either yes or no
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If A is not working in this area for 2025, call it out