Solve It For Someone Else First | 5/8/25

Where you’re at: 20something who’s tried willpower-ing their way to eating healthier, managing money more effectively, and reading more often.

How it’s turned out: starts great, fades away.

What you can do instead: find someone who has the same/similar thing you’re trying to figure out. Solve it for them. Then use what you just created for them, but now for yourself.

Struggling to build healthy habits?

Help one of your friends out who also has this issue. Tell them to make meal plans. Tell them to put workouts on the calendar ahead of time. Tell them to bring their gym clothes to work. Tell them to bring their book to read everywhere they go instead of scrolling their phone.

Now you have that list. Go do those things yourself.

I’ve experienced this for myself as I’ve built out / integrated CRMs for others, enabling them to communicate more effectively with their network. I just do the same things that I just advised for someone else. The result? More natural network and ecosystem building activities.

Once you zoom out and see that the problems you’re facing now, others around you are also probably facing, you’ll see that you’re not alone. Plus you get the added benefit of helping someone else with their problem, so you feel good. And it brings you closer together.

Helping someone with the same problem I have is how I turn my blind spots into strengths.