yann girard - rethinking the now

Don't be your worried self...

Why not make 2018 the year where you try to be your normal self instead of your worried self..?

 

How to stand out...

Say the stuff that everybody else is afraid of saying.

Write about the stuff that everybody else is afraid of writing.

Sing about the stuff that everybody else is afraid of singing.

Do the stuff that everybody else is afraid of doing...

Two types of risk

There's the risk you never take.

And that risk won't lead to anything.

It won't change a thing.

It won't lead to misery, failure and regret.

But it also won't lead to happiness, success and satisfaction.

And then there's the risk you take.

And that risk can lead to misery, failure and regret.

But it can also lead to happiness, success and satisfaction.

Which one are you going to take?

Tricking the customer

A few weeks ago I helped a friend to sign up for a new internet connection in a new apartment.

I've never had a harder time to figure out what to order.

Every single step is basically setup to trick you.

To lure you into a contract that locks you in for two or more years.

Tons of terms and conditions to read. 

Tons of things to pay attention to.

And even though in the end I got what I wanted, I felt like I've been tricked.

I had to read all of the fine print, I had to call customer support and on and on and on.

When the only thing I really wanted was a quick and easy internet access.

I felt like I needed a university degree to be able to do something that should take less than 5 minutes.

And you know what?

No matter what kind of product or what kind of service or whatever this company is going to do in the future, even if they're going to help starving kids somewhere, I will never buy anything from that company ever again.

Unless I really have no other choice...

The same holds true for emails I never signed up for that keep hitting my inbox.

Or popup ads on websites that I can barely close on my phone so that I end up clicking on that damn popup ad almost every single time and end up somewhere I never wanted to go in the first place.

Or websites asking me to disable my popup blocker every ten seconds when all I want is to read that damn article.

And that's something a lot of companies don't understand...

Trying to trick your customers into buying a subscription they don't really want, showing them ads they can barely close and don't really want to see or forcing them to do something they don't want to do works in the short run.

But in the long run people will move to the company that doesn't try to trick them.

The company that locks them in by not trying to lock them in.

By making it easier instead of more complicated. By offering a better service instead of cutting corners. By caring more instead of caring less...

More for less

More for less sounds like a great deal.

It even sounds too good to be true.

It sounds like a slogan for some kind of crazy deal that's currently going on where you can get even more stuff for even less money.

The only problem is that the more you own, the more you have and the more you buy into the more for less hype, the more things you'd have to worry about.

That new car.

That fancy new jacket.

That new gadget.

That new apartment.

That stock you just bought that keeps going down.

Most of the time more for less equals more stuff for less freedom.

But what if we flip the whole thing?

More time for less worries...

More freedom for less stuff...

More for less...

 

 

Opening doors...

The more doors you open, the more doors you'll get access to that lead to even more doors that lead to even more doors.

Doors that you never even knew existed.

And when I'm saying "doors", I'm really talking about opportunities...

 

What's more important than...

Love?

Freedom?

Happiness?

Friends?

Success?

Family?

And fulfillment? 

Nothing...

And everything...

The only thing that's important is that you don't let anybody else tell you what's important to you.

That all you do is to focus on what's important to you.

Whatever that might be.

That you live it and breathe it with all of your heart.

To give it all you got.

As much and as often as you can.

No matter what everybody else says.

No matter what everybody else expects you to do...

No...

No time.

No money.

No skills.

No contacts.

No talent.

No time...

Are all excuses for not trying.

For not putting in the work.

For not doing the uncomfortable stuff.

For not doing the things that might not work out.

For not giving it all you got.

What's your excuse?

Creating the future

You can talk about the future. Think about the future. Or discuss the future.

But only one thing will ever create the future. And it's none of the above...

Life is a series of unlimited trades

And you can make as many or as few trades as you want to.

But here's the thing...

The less trades you make, the lower the probability that you're going to get lucky.

And the more trades you make, the higher the probability that you're going to get lucky.

Not only this, but the more trades you make, the better of a trader you'll get.

Sure, you can also be happy, get lucky or whatever by making just a very limited amount of trades.

It's possible. But not very likely. Because most of us, we just aren't Warren Buffett.

The truth is this...

The more trades you make, the more shots you take, the better of a trader, boyfriend, wife, employee, writer, singer, entrepreneur, artist, designer or whatever you'll become.

Unfortunately, most people give up after the first couple of trades that went wrong.

Either physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually...