Don't mistake insights for progress. The insight that you need to exercise is not exercise. The insight that you should write more is not writing. The insight that your strategy is wrong is not fixing the strategy. Insights are free. They cost nothing and produce nothing by themselves.
Im going to leave you with this tonight.
Underrated life skill: asking for exactly what you want. Most people hint, hope, and wait for others to read their mind. Instead, state your request directly, explain why it matters to you, propose how it benefits them too, and give them an easy out. You'll be shocked how often the answer is yes. The worst they can say is no, which is exactly where you started. People actually respect clarity. Fortune favors the bold, but it adores the specific.
once you learn how the sausage is made in your industry, some of the glamour falls away
once you've worked in three or five industries, you realize it's all sausage, humans have never produced anything that wasn't sausage, and if you think you see non-sausage— nope, sausage
Two is twice as good as one, but one is infinitely better than zero.
-One minute of making sales calls is infinitely better than zero minutes.
-One minute of meditation is infinitely better than zero minutes.
-One minute of writing is infinitely better than zero minutes.
Sure, it might be ideal to spend an hour doing these things, but one minute gets you in the game. Now you're learning. Now you're improving. Now results are possible. One doesn't seem like much, but it's something real. At zero, you're still dreaming.
Courage is in shorter supply than genius. But integrity is in shorter supply than either. Without integrity all your courage and genius will merely serve the ends of whoever can gaslight you best.
40 things I wish I knew when I was 20
1. For whatever action scares you (and isn’t life-threatening), remember this surefire way to eliminate the fear: do it 100 times.