Archive for the month June 2021
It works.
Because it forces you to think out of the box.
It also saves the business from one of two big reasons businesses die, lack of money in the bank, and the founder trying to do everything and not…
Get up.
Stop working
And go take a walk,
Or lie down,
Or take a shower.
Brainstorming with someone can also help.
This helps because we need focus to come up with ideas but the ideas don’t come when we…
And not because of circumstances.
If we believe in the agency we have as human beings and commit not to let the situations control us, we can win.
Of course, there are situations when we can’t do much.
But they…
To make something out of nothing.
To provide for yourself and others even when starting from scratch.
Creating new opportunities for yourself.
The good news is that it is a skill one can develop.
If you’ve become wealthy once based…
Many constraints are mental and there are many ways to break through those constraints.
But it is not always easy.
Think of a constraint like a big wall. When faced with a wall like challenge, a big constraint of any…
If you are like me, someone who cannot do creative work for more than 3-4 hours in a day, you need a plan to put those hours to best use.
And make sure that a set back during the day…
Because when you make stuff for yourself, you won’t have to wait to find an audience for yourself.
You can iterate and improve it fast because there will be a real user from day one.
It is also smart because…
It allows you to choose.
And not be a slave to your circumstances.
Without it, you won’t be able to say no to what you don’t want to do – and if you do, you’ll suffer.
There are many ways…
For me, for a long time starting things was easy.
But I could not finish what I started.
So I ended up with lots of unfinished projects, no visible success and lots of time and energy wasted.
Thankfully I learned…
Blake Masters sat through a startup course that Peter Theil, venture capitalist and the first outside investor in Facebook, was teaching at Stanford.
He just didn’t sit there, he took copious notes.
He posted those notes on his website, and…
Because it forces you to be more attentive to ideas around you.
When you share what you write with others you can’t just share what comes to your mind.
You think through and make what you write clear enough for…
According to a
Harvard Business Review article based on 10 years of research, people who were described as “decisive” were 12 times more likely to be high-performing CEOs.
The article points out that – Decisive CEOs recognize that they can’t…
There are a lot of ways a business can grow, but for a founder hiring the right people is the most impactful one.
Your responsibility does not end with hiring though.
You need to make your employees successful in the…
Stop doing what you are doing.
Do nothing for a while.
Think of the reason why you can’t focus.
List all the things that are holding you back.
Is it because you are distracted, disturbed, hungry, thirsty, too full, need…
Kendra Scott, a self-taught jewelry designer, designed her first collection in 2002, with $500 in the spare bedroom of her home.
Not knowing that the business she started Kendra Scott LLC will become a brand valued at a billion dollars.…