In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.
Almost every person in your life will try to convince you to be less ambitious when you are young.
They will tell you to be realistic. They will tell you not to take too much risk.
This will come from family, friends, and mentors alike.
Don't listen to them. They are wrong.
Ambition is the gasoline needed to live an extraordinary life.
What makes entrepreneurship hard isn’t the work, it’s not knowing whether it’ll work.
We’re afraid of wasted work.
But if it makes you better, no work is wasted.
When you picture something in your mind, where is it? Is it real? Tangible? An orchestra of signals? You're holding it, aren't you? Is it another dimension created only by our minds? #StayUp#StayPositive#StayHungry
Ways to not feel stressed when ‘bad’ stuff happens:
1) Decide it isn’t bad. It just is. Remind yourself that you’re the one calling it bad. Most ‘bad’ things in the micro becomes ‘good’ things in the macro.
2) See if you can remember something of equal importance from 20 years ago. If not, it probably won’t matter in the future. And it won’t matter then, it doesn’t matter now.
3) Imagine this bad thing happened every hour of everyday for the next two years. How would you feel on the 1,000th time of this happening? Probably like it’s just ‘part of life’. If it can feel that way then, it can feel that way now.
4) Remind yourself that if you zoom far enough out in space. Right now. That you can’t even see the earth. Reminds us that big problems are only big when compared to small things. Change what you compare your problems to, and they become small problems (or stop being one all together).
5) Remind yourself that right now. We remember entire civilizations as the ancient “X-ans”. Romans. Sumerians. Babylonians. And we may be the Ancient Americans to a future gen. Barely even remembering names of leaders. If we can’t remember their names, their problems certainly didn’t matter.
6) Jail. Bankruptcy. Ridicule. Whatever “terrible” thing it is. Be grateful that you get to have this unique human experience. Most people may not ever experience it. But you can. Which gives you deeper insight no one can take from you. And that’s something to be grateful for.
7) Remind yourself that the output of hard circumstances is strong character. After all, hard people don’t come from easy times. So we can’t wish for one without the other. In many cases, we’re getting our wish - to become the best version of ourselves. And this is just the way we become it.
These frames have helped me more than I can say. Hope they helps you.