The Epic Year Approach: Control Your Life Event Density

The Epic Year approach is about speed­ing up per­son­al growth.

What do you remem­ber from a spe­cif­ic year in your life? When it comes down to what we remem­ber from past years, we tend to remem­ber … the epic stuff. 

What do I remem­ber from a spe­cif­ic year?
And why do life events matter?

Here we go:

Life Event Density

When think­ing back on a spe­cif­ic year, most of us will remem­ber highly spe­cif­ic life events like:

And so on.

Besides being pos­it­ive and mem­or­able, what these types of life events often have in com­mon is that they seem to pro­pel our lives forward.

Four is the Magic Number

In 2010, I mar­ried Lisah on a Caribbean beach, worked in New York, star­ted blog­ging in English, and got a stu­dio apart­ment in Manhattan’s Financial District. Those were four sig­ni­fic­ant leaps in my life — and a life-chan­ging year for me.

For me, 2010 was epic.

In 2013, I remem­ber quit­ting my job and start­ing a digit­al PR agency, Spin Factory. That’s two giant leaps, but hon­estly, I can­’t remem­ber any­thing else but hard work from that year. 

In ret­ro­spect, 2013 does­n’t stand out as an “Epic Year.”

The magic num­ber seemed to be four major mile­stones; if I had exper­i­enced four leap-type events in one year, that year would have felt monu­ment­al in hindsight. 

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The Epic Year Approach

We all exper­i­ence major life events. Sometimes, they occur one after anoth­er, some­times they’re far apart. It could be fin­ish­ing or start­ing an edu­ca­tion, relo­cat­ing, mar­ry­ing someone, mak­ing a cru­cial career move, start­ing a busi­ness, hav­ing a child, etc.

What such events typ­ic­ally have in com­mon is that they tend to pro­pel the pro­gres­sion of your life forward.

A few years stand out, push­ing my per­son­al devel­op­ment for­ward expo­nen­tially. What did those years have in com­mon? They con­tained four (or more) life events.

I call them Epic Years:

Epic Year = exper­i­en­cing four (or more) major life events with­in one year.

To accel­er­ate per­son­al growth, exam­ine the upcom­ing year. How many life events lie in your path? Fewer than four? Take action to get that num­ber to (at least) four!

Learn more: The Epic Year Approach: Control Your Life Event Density

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Keeping Track of Epic Years

I will, for sure, do my very best to have Epic Years mov­ing for­ward. The plan is to keep track of sig­ni­fic­ant life events by doing annu­al reviews:

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My Renaissance Projects

The Renaissance was a peri­od of sig­ni­fic­ant cul­tur­al, artist­ic, polit­ic­al, and sci­entif­ic rebirth in Europe, last­ing from the 14^th to the 17^th cen­tury, marked by a renewed interest in the clas­sic­al art and ideas of ancient Greece and Rome.

Inspired by lifelong artists and learners, I strive to always devel­op my cre­at­ive intel­li­gence, phys­ic­al strengths, and men­tal well-being. 

This is a list of my “Renaissance Projects”:

• My Chess Failure: 12 Months Is Not Nearly Enough
• 18 Months of Sudoku — Relaxing the Mind
• So, I Blogged for 10 Years to Improve My English
• My Mind Palace (and How It Helps Me To Think Better)
• The Ikigai Test
• The Big Five Aspects Scale Results (My Personality Test Results)
• My Photography Journey: A Descent Into Madness
• The Epic Year Approach: Control Your Life Event Density
• Image Streaming — Unleash Your Inner Genius

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Doctor Spin’s PR School: Productivity

• Pavlov’s Inbox
• The Ivy Lee Method (to be published)
• My Phone Policy
• Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast
• The Acceleration Theory: Use Momentum To Finish First
• The Every Day Rule
• The Epic Year Approach: Control Your Life Event Density
• Image Streaming — Unleash Your Inner Genius

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