This is for the people who look at the world from a different perspective. The ones who are restless. The ones who strive for change. The ones who see things differently. The ones who don’t accept the status quo. The ones who challenge current thinking patterns. The ones who break down existing barriers. The ones who make the impossible possible. The ones who build new things. The ones most people call crazy, but we call them passionate. This is for the people just like you and me...
If it doesn't take a lot of time, effort, patience and perseverance, it's probably not worth it and it's going to end up costing you a lot more time, energy and resources to fix it...
The harder you had to fight to get it, the harder you'll fight to keep it. Just like the easier it was to get it, the easier it'll be to lose it again...
Doing the work is difficult. But getting people to find out about you and your work is even more difficult. So before you're putting your stuff out there, think about how people are going to find out about you and your stuff...
Don't focus on acquiring information. Focus on figuring out what to do with all that information and how you can use it to turn nothing into something. That's what matters...
The more you're trying to create safety, stability and predictability in your life, the more you're going to end up exposing yourself to the exact opposite...
One of the most important skills to learn is how to make good decisions. And the way you learn how to make good decisions is by having made many bad decisions...
It's not about how much or how little you have: You can do a lot with a little. And you can do little with a lot. In the end, it's all about figuring out how to best leverage the stuff you already have. No matter how much or how little that is...
You can wait your whole life for that one big hit. Which will probably never come. And if it comes, you're probably going to miss it. Because you don't really know what to do or how to hit it. So you'd better get used to hitting all that small stuff, so you're ready when that big thing hits...
When things aren't going so well, we often believe that we'll have more time for the really important stuff once things start getting better. And once things do indeed start getting better, we realize that we don't really have time for the really important stuff either, because we're too busy making sure that things keep going so well...
The problem with change is that things usually get a lot worse (and stay like that) for quite some time before they'll start to get better. That's why it's so pretty damn hard..
It's hard to convince people who've already made up their minds. What we tend to forget is that we ourselves are way too often the hardest to convince of them all...
Every seed needs water and sunlight. Water and sunlight is the problem and the solution. If a plant doesn't have enough water and sunlight, it dies. If it has enough water and sunlight, it grows into a beautiful flower. Most of the things in life are like that. They can either kill you or help you to grow into a beautiful flower...
To succeed at the hard stuff is just as difficult as it is to succeed at the easy stuff. Because the easy stuff has plenty of competition. While the hard stuff barely has any competition at all...
No one else is going to do it for you and as good as you could...
We're living in a world that's constantly trying to make things easier for us. Starting a business. Meeting new people. New relationships. New friendships. New jobs. New everything... And while all of this stuff gets easier, there's one thing that gets harder and harder: Commitment. A vicious circle that's amplified by the exact same people trying to make things easier for us...
Everything you've done, seen, learned and achieved so far, will ultimately hold you back from doing, seeing, learning and achieving things you could never even have dreamed of. Unless, you're willing to risk it all, once again...
If you find that one person, then that one person is enough. For that job. That project. Or that relationship. But if you don't find that one person, then even an unlimited amount of people won't be enough. So just keep looking...
There have never been more tools, platforms, books and content that help us to get our ideas out there. The one thing that's still scarce, probably the most important thing, is the ability to come up with ideas worth creating. Worth sharing. And worth spreading..
Writing a book won't make you successful. It just so happens that a lot of successful people also write books. Just like investing in stocks won't make you successful. It just so happens that a lot of successful people also invest in stocks. And that's one of the trickiest things to understand: More often than not, correlation doesn't equal causation...
The secret sauce is to create more (or give more) value than you take. That's why it's so difficult to start building momentum when you're just getting started. Because you need to take value to get you (and to keep you) going, while at the same time you can't really create that much value for others, yet..
The bad news: problems will never go away. The good news: the more problems you've dealt with, the bigger the problems you'll be able to solve. And the bigger the problems you're able to solve, the bigger your impact is going to be. So you better get used to it...
Don't just show up when you have to show up. And instead, start showing up way before you have to show up. So you have enough time to build up trust, an audience and enough credibility so that people are going to pay attention when you need them to...
The stuff that's going well is always hiding the stuff that isn't. But once the good stuff disappears, then all the bad stuff becomes visible. It's always been there. It just wasn't visible. Keep that in mind...
The earlier you understand that the only way to really change the game is to know the game and its rules (inside out), the higher your chances of ever being able to change that game...
These days it's not so much anymore about "Can I do this?" but about "Will I have the courage to do this? The patience? And the perseverance?" Will you..?
Quantity leads to quality. Doing something over and over again leads to quality. Deliberate practice leads to quality. A very straightforward concept. A concept that we tend to forget, the older we get...
Most of the important skills in life can be learned for free: Marketing, sales, public speaking, writing, leadership, empathy, etc. None of these skills require money. But balls...
The problem with other people is that they are other people. With different experiences. Expectations. Backgrounds. Goals. Thoughts. Hopes. And dreams. We sometimes tend to forget that...
If you do stuff that anybody else could have done, you'll get the same results that everybody else gets. If you want (or expect) better results, you gotta do stuff that the majority of the people would never do. If you want (or expect) exceptional results, you gotta do exceptional stuff. Try to keep that in mind...
As an entrepreneur, you're not getting paid for the hours you put in. You're getting paid for how big of a problem you're solving, in a way that people understand it, care for it and end up buying it. If they don't, you'll get paid exactly nothing for the hours you've put in. And that's a big difference...
You don't have to appeal to the majority of the people. Just a few people are enough. Because you can now reach those few people on a global scale. Which will turn them into a lot of people...
You don't need more time. More data. More experience. Or more money. What you're really saying is that you need a guarantee that it's going to work out. Unfortunately, you're never going to get it. So you might as well start today...