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December 2022
Looking for answers...
People are often asking questions because they're looking for confirmation and not for answers. Keep that in mind...
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In the long run...
Security and stability will cost you opportunities, freedom, flexibility and independence. Keep that in mind...
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Imbalanced balance...
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...
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The best advice is this...
The best advice is often the one you don't want to hear and don't (want to) agree with...
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Plenty of them...
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...
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Impatient patience
Impatience when it comes to taking action and patience when it comes to results...
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What can you do?
Today it's not so much anymore about what you're able to do. But about what you're willing to do and willing to sacrifice to get it...
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Freedom and skills
Education gets you a job
Experience gets you skills.
And skills get you freedom.
But a job rarely gets you skills that will get you freedom...
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Good ideas will follow
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...
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The fastest way to learn
The fastest way to learn is to play with (and lose) your own money. And the slowest way to learn is to play with (and lose) someone else's money...
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Something new...
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...
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Why they did what they did...
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...
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New vs status quo
Getting there requires a totally different skillset than staying there. It's rare to have/enjoy/find both. Keep that in mind...
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The ones you took...
In the long run, it's the shots you never took that will bring you down...
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Doesn't matter...
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...
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Hang in there...
You just need to get it right once. But to get it right just once, it usually takes a few dozen tries. Hang in there...
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It doesn't matter how much or how little you know
We're still taught that the key is to know stuff. And not how to understand stuff. But once you really understand stuff, it doesn't really matter how much or how little you know...
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The right questions...
Once you get all the answers, it's about asking the right questions. The only problem: being able to ask all the right questions requires us to be able to connect the dots. Something we haven't really been focused on over the past few decades of hyper-specialization...
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Where no one else is...
Don't even bother catching up. Because by the time you get there, everybody else is already somewhere else. So instead, go where no one else is...
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Not necessarily...
We're faster and more productive than we've ever been. But not necessarily smarter...
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Sooner or later?
We usually expect good stuff to happen long before it actually does. Just like we expect bad stuff to happen much later than it actually does. Keep that in mind...
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Step by step...
Change usually seems unnecessary. More often than not it's inconvenient. And uncomfortable. But at one point it's usually inevitable. Until one day it's too late...
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Today or tomorrow?
If you focus too much on the things that work today, you might end up missing the things that work tomorrow...
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Above-average results...
Either you're among the best, have some of the best systems in place (for creation and distribution), have an unfair advantage or you have a combination of those. Everything else won't get you there...
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So easy...
It's so easy to see the things you want to see. And so difficult to see the things you need to see...
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Changing everything
That one thing you're waiting for that's supposed to change everything rarely changes anything. Because the only thing that will ever change anything (and everything) is when you change...
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Best days...
Don't compare your worst days to everybody else's best days. The tricky part: we mostly get to see, read about or listen to everybody else's best days...
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Winning and losing
Your biggest wins often follow your biggest losses. And vice versa. Keep that in mind...
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Easier or harder?
The harder the stuff you do on a regular basis, the easier everything else gets. And the easier the stuff you do on a regular basis, the harder everything else gets...
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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."