When your team, systems & messaging aren’t aligned with who you are & why you do it, decisions stall & progress feels scattered.
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Are you creating the culture you expect from others? Are you holding yourself to the same standards you ask of your team? Leadership isn't demonstrated in what we post. It's demonstrated in what we practice. The mirror is a better leadership tool than the microphone.
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You shouldn't preach what you don't practice.
There is no shortage of posts about leadership, culture, accountability, trust, communication, and growth.
The harder question is: Are you living the advice you're giving? Are you the leader you wish you had? (1/2)
Underrated life advice: Have a place where you go to think. A porch. A trail. A coffee shop. A park bench. Somewhere your mind knows it's time to slow down. Most people spend their lives searching for answers. Few create the conditions for answers to appear.
Make it a rule to never suffer fools. Block, mute and go on with your day. This goes for real life and online. Attention is a resource and life is too short to give it to people who drain your time, test your patience, and add nothing to your life.
High cortisol is the real reason you wake up at 3-4 AM.
It also shaves 5 years off your life — tanks testosterone, locks belly fat, literally shrinks your brain.
If I wanted to fix it without medication, here are 8 things I'd do every day:
1. No food 3 hours before bed.
Underrated life advice: Become a purveyor of encouragement. Notice what's good in people. Tell them when they do something well. Celebrate their progress. Root for them to win. Be inspired by their success. The world already has enough critics. Be different.
Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.
A friend of mine used to say: “Show up on time, with a good attitude, and do what you said you’d do. That’s it. That’s 90% of winning in life." The older I get, the more I realize just how right he was.
instead of watching 2 hours of Netflix tonight, watch this Stanford lecture
it's the clearest explanation I've seen of how ChatGPT and Claude actually work
useful whether you've never touched AI in your life or have been using it every day for the past year
I took the key ideas and turned them into a practical guide on how to actually get 100% out of Claude
find it below
There is clear scientific evidence that the people you surround yourself with determine your outcomes.
The Pygmalion Effect is the name of the behavioral phenomenon where we rise to the level of expectations of those around us.
So, if you surround yourself with people who push you to think bigger, who believe you are capable of more, you will rise to the level of those expectations.
But conversely, if you surround yourself with people who tell you to be realistic, who belittle your ambitions, you will fall to the level of those expectations.
Be deliberate about the people to whom you gift your precious time, energy, and attention. Your environment determines your outcomes.
Choose wisely.
Easy mindset shift: Focus on what you want to happen, not the thing you *don’t* want to happen.
Make Internal talk --> "You're going to crush this," not "Be careful not to mess up."
An F1 driver doesn't look at the wall...they look at the track.
Focus where you want to go.