If you don't wake up excited and go to bed tired, drop everything and think of what your future will look like if you keep repeating the same day for the rest of your life. Sit with that discomfort until a new direction appears.
Underrated life advice: When you're feeling overwhelmed, there are only two things you should do... get organized and get to work. The rest is just noise. Peace is found in progress.
Your edge isn't your idea, everyone has ideas. It isn't your strategy, strategy is everywhere. Its not even your execution, plenty of people execute. Your edge is your unreasonable willingness to keep going when reasonable people quit.
If you can ruin your life in an instant, you can transform it in one too. The only difference is that the payoff takes longer when you change for the better.
Life is sales. Relationships are sales. Everything is sales.
If you know how to sell yourself and your ideas, you will win.
If you are uncomfortable, afraid, or not very good at articulating your message, you will lose.
It's as simple as that.
Major cheat code for life: Learn to delay your reaction. Anger, fear, and impulse will try to make you move fast. There's power in pausing. In the pause, you see clearly, you respond wisely, and you avoid decisions you'll regret. Slow down to speed up.