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...
You can try to be cheaper than everybody else, better than everybody else or you can try to be different. In the long run, only one of those strategies is sustainable...
The easy stuff has plenty of competition. Because most people want to do the easy stuff. The hard stuff on the other hand has barely any competition at all. Because nobody wants to do the hard stuff. Keep that in mind...
Most people know what to do. Some people know how to do it. But just a few people know what to do, how to do it and are actually really doing it. That's the sweet spot...
Don't focus on "the best". The best way to get started. The best tools. The best processes. The best partners. The best customers. The best ideas... And instead, just focus on getting started. Otherwise, you'll never get started...
Knowing how to do something can help you get started. But in the long run, it won't help you to keep going. The one thing that will help you to keep going, especially during tough times is the why. The reason why you've even started it...
Education gets you a certificate. Doing stuff and getting your hands dirty gets you experience. And experience gets you real-world skills. And real-world skills get you freedom...
You'll either get paid for the hours you put in or the size of the problem you're solving. The bigger the problem, the better. P.S. At the end of the day, the market decides how big the problem really is...
The qualities that help you get started, such as passion, ambition, motivation, imagination and a desire for change, are very different from the qualities you need to keep going, such as discipline, focus, patience and perseverance. Keep that in mind...
What we're taught: There's only one correct answer and everything else is wrong. What the reality looks like: there are a million different answers and all of them can be right...
Whenever you feel like you still have a lot of time, you probably don't. And whenever you feel like you don't have enough time, you probably do. Because urgency creates action. And action creates results...
Doing the work isn't the hard part. Everybody can do the work. Figuring out how people can find out about you and your work is the hard part. You either have to become one of the best in your field so that over time people will find out about you and/or you figure out the distribution part...
There's a big difference between doing something because you really care about it and doing something because you only care about the results. In the long run, only one of them will lead to sustainable results...
Just because everybody else is doing it doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best way of doing it. As a matter of fact, the more people that are doing it, the higher the chances that it isn't...
Don't focus on big ideas. Instead, focus on small ideas and start working on them. Because big ideas are the result of many small ideas that add up to one big idea over time...
There will never be a shortage of opportunities. Because there'll always be an abundance of people that are too comfortable to seize them. Make it count...
Life's too short to be doing the same things over and over again. It's too short to keep doing new things over and over again. It's too short to not be taking any risks. It's too short to keep taking risks...
Don't start looking for that new thing only once you're running out of time, energy or resources. And instead, start looking when you still got plenty of them...
You don't start once you've got good ideas. You just start and the ideas will follow. Good ones and bad ones. Mostly bad ones. But over time, some good ones will follow...
The challenge is that the things that got you started, are likely also going to be the things that will push you to just give up and start something new...
The first step is to understand what people said or did. And the second step (sometimes even more important than the first step) is to understand why they said what they said and did what they did...
The best and probably only way to convince anyone: Results. Everything else doesn't really matter. Plans don't matter. Ideas don't matter. What you say doesn't matter. What you do doesn't matter. And sometimes even results don't matter...