21 years ago, we saw something in @realblackcoffee when few were paying attention. Today, look at what God has done with his journey. 🙏🏽❤️
This weekend, he took care of me in Ibiza, then said, “Bhuda, let’s go to Greece 🇬🇷 Mykonos Next thing, I am on a private jet for the first time in my life. 😂🙏🏽
Life has a beautiful way of coming full circle. Give from the heart. Don’t keep score. God can multiply it in ways you could never imagine.
Proud of you, Bhuda. I Believe. ❤️🙏🏽
these types of properties are gonna look insanely underpriced in a few years when everything is all about drone delivery, EVTOLs, autonomous airport pickup and dropoff, starlink, robotic/AI farm equipment and civil unrest keeps rising in cities
The single most important thing you can do in today's world is to stop operating from the old paradigm. If you need to be told what to do next (go to school, get a job, retire at 65) the outcome of your life will always be in someone else's hands. You must learn how to direct your own work. You must learn how to tolerate and mitigate risk and uncertainty. You must figure out what you want and teach yourself everything necessary to get it. It's extremely difficult, but not as difficult as the silent suffering people learn to accept as "normal."
It doesn't matter if it takes years.
What the fuck else are you going to do?
You aren't going to learn, create, experiment, grow, and everything that makes life enjoyable because you have something better to be doing?
Your mind is playing tricks on you.
KOBE BRYANT’S 10 RULES:
Get better every single day
Prove them wrong
Work on your weaknesses
Execute what you practiced
Learn from greatness
Learn from both wins and losses
Practice mindfulness
Be ambitious
Believe in your team/yourself
Learn storytelling
Kompany on those who doubted he had enough personality to manage Bayern Munich:
"I'll tell you something quickly just to prove a point: I was born in Brussels, my father was a refugee from Congo. What are my chances of even playing in the Premier League, winning something as a player, playing for the national team? The odds were like 0.000 something. Now I'm a coach.
The question is: Are you going to stop believing in yourself and what you can achieve because of what others say? The mentality is to keep going, and in the end, if you fail, you fail, if you succeed, you succeed, but you’ll always get better each time. The point is it's an interesting topic, in terms of what are people supposed to do? Give up? Stop because of what others say? In the world we live in, I don’t think so. Let’s encourage people to succeed, to break barriers, to do something."
🗣️🇵🇹 José Mourinho: "I was 10 years old when my father was fired on Christmas Day. He was a football coach, and his team's results weren't good. They had lost a match one or two days before Christmas.
On Christmas Day, as we were sitting at the table for lunch, the phone rang. A brief call from a club executive: you're fired. The news hit us like a ton of bricks. No one finished eating, we left the table, and sadness filled the house. Even the Christmas presents remained unopened that day.
From that moment on, I made my decision: I would be a coach. I would fight until the day when my father's name would be known worldwide.
I even wear clothes similar to his, which I have custom-made to match his style. My father is my only role model in the world."
Steve Jobs on his strategy for saving Apple from bankruptcy
Apple was on the verge of bankruptcy when Steve Jobs returned to the company in July of 1997. The clip below is from a CNBC interview three months later.
When asked about his strategy for turning the company around, Jobs shared the following advice:
“Somebody taught me a long time ago a very valuable lesson which is if you do the right things on the top line, the bottom line will follow. And what they meant by that was: if you get the right strategy, if you have the right people, and if you have the right culture at your company, you’ll do the right products. You’ll do the right marketing. You’ll do the right things logistically and in manufacturing and distribution. And if you do all those things right, the bottom line will follow.”
Video source: @CNBC (1997)
José Mourinho: "I was ten years old when my father was fired on Christmas Day.
He was a soccer coach, and his team’s results weren’t good. They had lost a match one or two days before Christmas.
On Christmas Day, while we were sitting at the table for lunch, the phone rang.
A brief call from a club executive: you’re fired.
The news hit like a blow. No one finished eating, we left the table, and sadness filled the house.
Even the Christmas presents went unopened that day.
From that moment, I made my decision: I would be a coach.
I would fight until the day my father’s name was known all over the world.
To this day, I wear clothes similar to his, and I have them specially made so they resemble his style.
My father is my only role model in this world."
Grab a notebook.
Write out exactly what you want in your future, don't miss a detail. Then, break it down into goals. Decades, years, months, weeks, and days.
Every day, write down the 3 levers you can pull to make actual progress.
Then, forget about the goals and execute.
To become elite, your emotional bandwidth must shrink. No time for validation, guilt, or fragile ego trips. Every thought is evaluated for utility. Every reaction is tested for impact. Every decision is binary: does it advance my goal, or not?