Archive for the year 2021
Show up.Ship your work, under your own name. This equals taking responsibility.Reach out and connect with peers, potential partners, with those you can help and those who can help you.Show your work, by talking about it, before doing it, while…
It takes courage to show up on bad days.
It takes drive and purpose to show up on good days.
You need drive and purpose to show up on good days because your life is running smoothly, even if you…
Most people feel they need to reach millions of people to build a successful business.
If you are someone who wants to build a world-changing business, for sure pursue that path. Focus on a higher value activity. Charge higher prices…
Don’t take shortcuts, goes the popular advice.
This is a dumb idea.
True there are some things where it is not possible to take a shortcut.
Like, building a healthy body.
Accumulating wealth.
Creating lasting bonds.
Everywhere else take shortcuts.…
Life is uncertain.
That is the struggle and beauty of life.
Struggle because before trying we won’t know if something will succeed.
Beauty because the uncertainty makes life interesting and if everything is predictable, life will be dull and boring.…
Returns are huge.
In scenarios where giving away your work is not possible, give away your insights and ideas.
Share what you’re working on.
Document how you solved a hard problem.
Take people behind the scenes.
Show them your processes.…
By shipping often
By helping others
By building in public
By doing what you say
By making more attempts
By embracing uncertainty
By doing deliberate practice
By taking action on your idea
By playing positive-sum games
By consuming to create…
Capture every thought.
Put these thoughts in an easily accessible database, like in Evernote.
Every day at a set time, come back to this database of thoughts, notes, and observations and work to improve an idea or two by writing…
Remote work is great.
It is efficient,
It saves people time on the commute, and also the stress that comes with it.
It saves money that people would have spent on getting dressed and looking pretty.
It gives us a…
There are many ways to be visible.
Run ads.
Create exemplary content that goes viral.
Do something audacious.
Be featured in the media.
You just have to master one space.
And build an audience that is eager to tune…
We can wait for opportunities to come to us or create a pathway of connections, skills, planning to get to them faster and more efficiently than others.
Works for getting the best jobs, best deals, and best clients.
To create…
If we are procrastinating on something it means that what we are procrastinating on, does not excite us.
Brian Tracy said it the best when he said the following:
“Everyone procrastinates.The difference between high performers and low performers is largely…
Remember this when building and growing a business.
Who are these good people?
They are people who,
Do what they say.
Do what they are supposed to do but also lift others.
Are smart but do the right thing over…
It’s important, especially where you are trading time for an outcome.
You don’t have to seek permission to stop.
Whether it is running a soul-sucking business.
Working in a dead-end job.
Or reading a book you don’t like.
How do…
Once we have lived a life with a goal and achieved some of those goals, it is worth living a life without a goal.
When you live such a life, just do what you have to do.
The rest of…