Upgrades
UP QUOTES
“Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.”
What can you upgrade? Everything.
The better question is, which areas of your life would upgrading yield you the greatest ROI given your unique values and circumstances? Is your to do list for today, this week, this month, this quarter, and this year focused on those areas in rank order of their ROI? If not, why not? Let’s change that…
Before you begin remember this: generally speaking, you read for fun and entertainment, but take strategic, practical action if you want to actually achieve goals. The guides below are explicitly designed to help you do that as efficiently and effectively as possible. They include the best 1,157 actions we’ve gleaned from reading literally hundreds of books and papers and working with 1,000+ people over 20+ years. Nothing else.
Please don’t merely read these guides–do them. If you don’t think you can on your own, we can do anything below with or for you. External accountability and extra sets of hands helps enormously. Please don’t wait to work on what matters most to you. Would your future self approve of your procrastination now?
Please take the Existential Safety Action Pledge and/or the Lifetime Impact Pledge before accessing the template plans below. They were designed to help altruists do more good in the world. If you’ve already done a DIY UP consult call, you may request the entire UP Archive here.
Self
Improve your awareness and alignment of your subagent, temporal, and shadow selves
Consciousness
Improve your sentience, peak and altered state experiences, and understanding of mind
Purpose
Improve your life purpose, life planning, life strategy, life design, and life clarity
Values
Improve your terminal values, value ranking, value-action alignment, and integrity
Spirituality
Improve your connection to the transcendent and your deepest sense of being
Impact
Improve the counterfactually-adjusted amount of net good you do for present and future species
Team
Improve your personal team’s versatility, coordination, speed, and cost-effectiveness
Time
Improve your time allocations to desired activities by day, week, month, year, and lifetime
Career
Improve your value-alignment, satisfaction, compensation, and career capital
Financial
Improve your net worth, future earnings potential, portfolio diversification, and security
Knowledge
Improve the quality and quantity of knowledge accessible in your mind and exocortex
Emotional
Improve your well-being, happiness, stress, anxiety, and emotional intelligence
Leisure
Improve the quality and quantity of your leisure, play, and recreational experiences
Family
Improve your family’s well-being, communication, quality time, and conflict resolution
Relationships
Improve the quality and quantity of your serious and casual romantic partners
Social
Improve the quality and quantity of your personal and professional social networks
Communities
Improve your connection to and support of the communities that which you belong to
Societal
Improve your connection to and support of the societies that which you belong to
Health
Improve your lifespan and energy and reduce diseases, injuries, and medical costs
Fitness
Improve your strength, endurance, physique, weight, mobility, flexibility, and speed
Nutrition
Improve your food’s nutritional value, quality, taste, convenience, and variety
Sleep
Improve your waking and sleeping rituals, duration, quality, efficiency, and dreams
Personality
Improve your character, adaptability, sociability, likability, confidence, and helpfulness
Appearance
Improve your face, teeth, hair, skin, nails, clothing, body language, posture, gait, and voice
Sex
Improve your sexual access, skill, quality, frequency, safety, variety, and novelty
Perception
Improve your sense of time, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, pain, and direction
Communication
Improve your communication strategy, channels, clarity, efficiency, and response time
Environmental
Improve the usability and aesthetics of your home, office, vehicle, and other favorite spaces
Transportation
Improve your transportation options, comfort, efficiency, routes, safety, and costs
Life Work
Improve your efficiency in managing purchases, doing chores, and handling “life”
Legal
Improve your compliance with applicable local, regional, national, and international laws
Safety
Improve your physical, emotional, epistemic, and digital security systems
End of Life
Improve your will, advance directive, assets transfer, and dead man’s switch protocols
Other
Identify and improve all the other areas of life not otherwise detailed that you value
