Itzler: I schedule one major year-defining 'Misogi' challenge annually
Jesse Itzler · Jesse Itzler's Exact Playbook For Creating HIT AFTER HIT (#504) · Oct 5, 2023 · at 1:18:35
Entrepreneur Jesse Itzler explains his lifestyle design frameworks on My First Million with Shaan Puri and Sam Parr.
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“I try to have one big year defining thing on my calendar every year. Last year was my bike ride across America. 2015 was living with the seal, the book I wrote. 2017, I lived on a monastery. 20 16 or something. I started 29 or 29 this company with my partner. So there's an old Japanese ritual called the Misogi, and we took the liberty to kind of create our own version of what that means. But basically, it means that every year you do one, or the way I've interpreted it. Is you do one big year-defining thing, and you had, you should have something to show for it every year.”
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