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January 2016
Expect the best. Get ready for the rest..
With so much stuff happening these days, with economies struggling, with people losing their jobs, with a crisis here and a crisis there, people tend to expect the worst to happen.
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Pack your stuff and leave
We live in a world where success is measured by the amount of hours we're able to bill our clients.
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One person a day
If you're able to get just one person a day to like your product, to read your book, to support your idea or to share your blog post, you'll have 365 people who support your work at the end of the year.
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Reinventing yourself
Reinventing yourself or your business is probably the hardest thing out there.
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A lot of people say a lot of stuff..
A lot of people out there want to tell you what you should do to get more readers. To sell more books. Or to sell more of your products.
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Until you get caught
The best way out of anything you don't want anymore is to be mediocre at it.
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10 Things I Learned After I Quit My Job (and wish I knew before)
I wasted a lot of time and money during the first year after I quit my job.
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While you were busy..
While you were busy reading about habits of successful people, they were busy working on their successes.
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Most of the time..
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What a surprise!
When was the last time you read something, saw something or heard something and went something like this:
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What I've Learned in 2015
I've learned many things in the past year. Too many to remember them all.
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Leave that map at home
What happens when you have a map, a map to a place or to a certain destination is that you'll end up missing all the fun along the way. Like the children playing. Or that stranger smiling at you.
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The optimization trap
When you constantly read the same life hack posts everybody else is reading, you'll be doing the same stuff everybody else is doing and you'll become like everybody else. Sooner or later.
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Sometimes..
Sometimes when I see a plane on the horizon I wonder where its going to and what people are currently doing on that plane.
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Think. Again!
New Year’s resolutions never work. Trying to get rid of bad habits never works. Trying to change who you are never works.
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The reading myth
A lot of writers tell you that you need to read every day to become a better writer. And it makes a lot of sense. At least for them.
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- "97% of the people out there won't care about what you do. Act accordingly."
- "Money is not for buying things. Things don’t make us happy. Money is for buying ourselves some freedom to do the things that make us happy."
- "Being unrealistic is the most realistic thing you could do."
- "You just need one person who cares about what you do. And that person is you. And no one else. It all starts with you."
- "We always think we have enough time. Until we realize there's no more time left."
- "The only way to stay ahead of the curve is to create your own curve."
- "Be the dealer. Don't be the junkie. The dealer always wins. And the junkie always dies."
- "The only person you should try to please is your 80 year old self."
- "It's hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you keep your eyes closed.."
- "Most advice doesn’t work. Because most advice comes from people who’ve never even done the things they're taking about. And that's dangerous."
- "Being able to build something out of nothing is the most important skill. For what? For everything!"
- "Why are people who write about millionaire habits not millionaires?"
- "No one will magically find out about you."
- "The things you don't want to do are usually the things you should be doing. They're almost always the things that will get you where you want to be."
- "Don't let other people's reality be your reality.."
- "Today it's easier to get started than ever before. That's why most people give up so easily. Because it was so easy to begin with."
- "When you hate your job you'll never be able to do more than just mediocre work."
- "Don't listen too all the life advice out there. It's all B.S. Just like this right here."
- "No one starts as an expert. We all start from the bottom. And have to work our way to the top."
- "The only thing that will ever lead to quality is quantity. To do it over and over again. That’s the only way."
- "Be a Warrior, not a Worrier!"
- "New ways of doing things never work. Until they do. Just like old ways of doing things always work. Until they dont."
- "Constantly thinking about things won’t get you anywhere. You'll never find a solution just by thinking about it. You've gotta start doing."
- "Not getting it right is part of the process of getting it right."
- "How long does it take to change the world? As long as it takes to change yourself. So probably your whole life."
- "Focusing on results won't get you results. Focusing on the actions that produce results will get you results."
- "It's easy to forget all the things you have when all you do is to focus on the things you don't have."
- "Perfection will only hold you back"
- "Never listen to anyone who has never done what you're doing or want to do. Ignore your parents, your friends and pretty much everybody else."
- "Trading time for money is not freedom. It’s a prison. The only way you’ll ever be able to make more money is to trade more of your time."
- "The only way to beat the system is to know the system. Inside out."
- "It's not what you do on your good days that will make you. It's almost always what you do on your bad days that will either make you or break you."