3 Guiding Principles for the NEW Year (Style, Business and Life)
About this video
McGoff shares three guiding principles he’s adopting for the new year: prioritizing quality over quantity in clothing and content creation, maintaining a producer-over-consumer mindset with how he spends his time, and valuing relationships and time with people over work and income growth.
Key takeaways
- McGoff argues that quality over quantity applies to both wardrobes and content—he recommends removing unworn items and upgrading frequently-worn staples to higher-quality versions that feel and last better.
- McGoff advocates for a producer-versus-consumer framework for time management, arguing that most goals require producing more than consuming, and that consuming activities like podcasts or videos feel productive but often distract from actual work.
- McGoff emphasizes prioritizing relationships and time with family and friends over work grind, stating that reflecting on life at the end rarely involves wishing you worked more.
Episode details: published January 12, 2018 · 7K views · 7:16 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. The style advice summarized here is Brock McGoff’s own teaching and opinion, presented for education; product recommendations are his, not ours. Summaries are written by Self Growth Videos from each video itself.
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