A mentor told me this: Learn the difference between peace and avoidance. Peace is choosing not to fight battles that don’t matter. Avoidance is refusing to face the battles that do. Real wisdom is having awareness of which one you’re doing in the moment. I’ll never forget that.
This is to the more advanced entrepreneurs out there:
One of the hardest lessons I have to keep relearning is that to continue advancing, you have to reset your minimum standard for bet size.
Meaning, if you want to win bigger, you got to bet bigger.
And big is 100% relative.
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.
"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass, anyway." - Earl Nightingale
Chasing "get rich quick" schemes actually puts people behind.
Just started building something meaningful...today.
Time is passing anyway.
"Rebellion is when you look society in the face and say, I understand who you want me to be....but I'm going to show you who I actually am."
Anthony Anaxagorou nails it.
Cut the crap. Literally, cut the unnecessary distractions out of your life—delete apps, unfriend and unfollow toxic people, stop committing to activities you don't care about. Life is too short.
For f*ck sake. Be optimistic. Be extreme. Be relentless. The world is waiting for you to raise the bar and finally go all in. Execute. Inspire. Show us what’s possible.
Being busy is not the same as being productive.
The 80/20 principle, also known as Pareto’s Law, dictates that 80% of your desired outcomes are the result of 20% of your activities or inputs.
Once per week, stop putting out fires for an afternoon and run the numbers to ensure you’re placing effort in high-yield areas:
What 20% of customers/products/regions are producing 80% of the profit?
What are the factors that could account for this?
Invest in duplicating your few strong areas instead of fixing all of your weaknesses.