| Nov 13 |
Everyone gets what they want. https://t.co/CXg6o1ZLWG
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| Nov 12 |
Failure is to be expected, not avoided. Failure is feedback, not judgment.
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| Nov 12 |
We seek the freedom to choose what we do rather than freedom from doing things at all.
Not having anything to do is just as miserable as doing things you don't want to do.
Retirement starts when you do what you want, not when you stop doing. That's what death is.
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| Nov 12 |
Just because something hurts you, doesn't make it evil.
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46k |
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| Nov 12 |
Whenever you sell something, you want to decrease the number of things you need someone to believe and increase the number of reasons to believe it.
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| Nov 12 |
I didnât send emails to my list or have a real website until we crossed $30,000,000 per year.
Gasp.
(Mostly because I didnât have the bandwidth and what I was doing was working.)
Thereâs no one way to win.
But spreading yourself too thin is a sure way to lose.
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| Nov 11 |
People stop rooting when you start winning because they only love an underdog as long as it stays an underdog.
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| Nov 11 |
What will separate you from your peers is not the size of your goals but the size of your commitment to them. What you're willing to give up - that they aren't - to see it through.
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| Nov 11 |
If you're afraid, write down what happens as a result of the bad thing occurring. Actually, play it out. 99% of the time, it's smaller than you think and probably worth the risk of going for it.
Worst case is disappointment, not death.
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| Nov 11 |
Fear only exists in the vague, not the specific.
Our brains imagine the vague and make it mean death.
But that's not reality. You probably won't go homeless, starve and die.
Someone might just say something you wouldn't prefer. You'll survive.
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| Nov 11 |
Read this if you're afraid of disappointing your parents.
Worst case: They speak to you less for a little, they speak to you a lot more for a little, or nothing changes.
All 3 are better than waiting for them to die to start living your life.
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| Nov 10 |
You get through the lonely chapter of life where youâre more ambitious than your old friend group but donât have enough proof for your desired friend group by focusing on the work, not the scoreboard.
The scoreboard matters, but you canât score without first being good. And you canât get good without first being bad.
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| Nov 10 |
Suffering is a fixed cost of life.
Itâs guaranteed.
Which makes learning to enjoy life while suffering one of the most valuable skills you can learn.
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| Nov 10 |
The reason itâs taking so long is because youâre in a rush.
People radically underestimate how many repetitions it takes to get good at something.
You keep hopping opportunities and killing your progress instead of sticking with one thing long enough to actually get good.
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| Nov 09 |
There are no perfect businesses. And waiting longer to start just delays how long it takes you to figure that out.
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114 |
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| Nov 09 |
The fastest way to get richer is to stop pursuing opportunities with low ceilings.
The hard part about this is most people donât know their opportunity has a ceiling until they see one with a higher ceiling.
This ignorance debt is what we lose in years to pay down.
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145 |
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| Nov 09 |
If youâre in your 20s and have no experience, you have the greatest advantage - which is you have nothing to lose.
Use what you do have (time & energy) to get what you donât have (skills & leverage).
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| Nov 09 |
Sales is a lot like poker. You don't play your hand, you play the man in front of you. You don't sell the product, you sell the prospect. If you can learn someone's why, you can sell them almost any how.
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| Nov 08 |
The person who speaks the most in the sale, loses.
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222 |
182 |
88.3k |
50 |
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| Nov 08 |
If you're at rock bottom and have nothing, you have the greatest advantage - which is you have nothing left to lose. Use it.
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352 |
210 |
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124 |
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| Nov 08 |
You'd be amazed how effective these 4 words can be to keep everyone focused.
Memorize this:
âGreat idea. Not now.â
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61k |
116 |
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| Nov 08 |
Solutions are like paintings...
You need to apply coats of paint. Let it dry. Come back and look at it again. Then apply the next coat.
Most business owners have the intellectual capacity to solve their problems, they just donât have the time to let the paint dry. So they only think one layer deep. But all the alpha comes from the 2nd-nth coats. That's where the masterpieces come from.
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123 |
57.6k |
390 |
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| Nov 07 |
The biggest risk to your business are your 2nd and 3rd best ideas you keep working on but shouldn't.
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125 |
156 |
59.2k |
100 |
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| Nov 07 |
The fastest way to make more money is to sell the same thing you already are for more money.
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| Nov 06 |
When things are going bad, try a lot of stuff. Because you have a high chance of making it better.
When things are going well, don't try a lot of stuff. Because you have a high chance of making it worse.
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203 |
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| Nov 05 |
The single greatest decision you can make for your business is who you choose to work with.
The single greatest decision you can make for your life is who you choose to marry.
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176 |
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| Nov 05 |
There are two types of people in this world:
1) Those who talk shit
2) Those who do shit
You won't receive the first from the second.
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| Nov 05 |
You cannot make yourself exceptional and live a normal life. To make yourself exceptional, you must live an exceptional life.
You must become the exception.
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| Nov 05 |
Friendly reminder that it's normal for normal people to not understand why you do what you do when you have different goals than them.
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268 |
209 |
65k |
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| Nov 04 |
When you want to be the .01%, thereâs no greater waste of time than explaining yourself to people who actively donât support you.
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238 |
170 |
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129 |
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| Nov 04 |
Many people say they want to be in the top 1% or top 0.1%, or even top 0.01% - but saying that has zero bearing on whether it happens.
Most business owners wildly underestimate the amount of volume that is required to win.
Achievement comes from actions, not aspirations.
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273 |
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| Nov 04 |
The most important success principle is consistency. Being able to keep doing the same thing day after day without immediate satisfaction.
The problem is, to witness consistency, you need to be consistent.
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73k |
206 |
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| Nov 04 |
What success is for you when youâre 20 will be different when youâre 30 and it will be different when youâre 40.
And thatâs okay.
Changing your mind with new information is a sign of maturity, not inconsistency.
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| Nov 03 |
The only thing more contagious than a virus is belief.
Belief that you can - and - belief that you can't.
Surround yourself with people who help you catch the right kind.
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269 |
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173 |
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| Nov 03 |
Difficult problems are rarely solved with more money and almost always solved with more effort.
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241 |
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95 |
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| Nov 03 |
Poor people are impressed by stuff.
Rich people are impressed by results.
Don't outspend. Outwork.
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446 |
243 |
92.6k |
99 |
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| Nov 02 |
You don't get burnt our from working too much. You get burnt out when the things you work on no longer give you the same joy they once did, or that joy comes at too long of a delay.
You're not working too much. You're getting too little.
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238 |
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| Nov 02 |
Most hate is other people feeling bad seeing you do something good and wanting you to feel bad as punishment.
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152 |
49.9k |
109 |
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| Nov 01 |
You feel stuck because you figured out what you want costs way more than you expected - and you're not sure if you want it as much anymore.
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141 |
75.3k |
139 |
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| Nov 01 |
You can beat 99% of people if you just always try one more time.
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266 |
95.1k |
64 |
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| Nov 01 |
The only people who are unhated are unknown.
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65.7k |
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| Oct 31 |
General comparison makes you bitter. Specific comparison makes you better.
There is nothing more useless than "they have more than me" without asking "what did they do that I am not doing?"
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117 |
51.4k |
190 |
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| Oct 31 |
The paradox of readiness is you want to feel ready before you start, but you become ready by starting.
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356 |
165 |
62.4k |
102 |
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| Oct 31 |
If you can do it when itâs hard, you can keep doing it under any conditions.
If you only wait to start when itâs easy, youâll either never start, or, youâll quit the moment it gets hard again (which it always does).
So you might as well start when itâs hard.
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240 |
171 |
51.1k |
261 |
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| Oct 31 |
If you attempt anything great, you will get hate. Period.
But if the hatred comes from someone who represents the opposite of your values - then youâre doing it right.
Zero. And I mean zero - great people had zero enemies.
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257 |
67k |
224 |
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| Oct 30 |
The best content to consume to learn entrepreneurship is reality.
Youâll learn more from your first 100 cold calls than you will from reading every sales book in the world.
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| Oct 30 |
On discipline: If you want to get to where you want to go, your frustration tolerance has to get stronger. And the good news, is that's a skill, which means you can get better at it.
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182 |
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| Oct 30 |
More only works if you have feedback loops to get better.
More for the sake of more doesn't move the needle.
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145 |
244 |
44.3k |
109 |
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| Oct 30 |
The higher you go. The better you are, the better the opportunities you have to say no to.
You feel regret because youâre imagining the upside of the path you didn't take but not the downside you didn't get.
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194 |
38.6k |
208 |
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| Oct 30 |
You can lose more than you win as long as when you win, you win big.
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152 |
224 |
54.9k |
68 |
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| Oct 29 |
I have yet to meet a successful person who says that it was faster and easier than they expected.
Even when you expect it to take a long time and be hard, you're still undershooting.
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191 |
191 |
55.9k |
184 |
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| Oct 29 |
Short deadlines. Long time horizons.
This is the way.
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185 |
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52.1k |
55 |
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| Oct 29 |
It always costs more, takes longer and is harder than you think it will be.
Even when you know it always costs more, takes longer and is harder than you think it will be.
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263 |
204 |
62.7k |
172 |
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| Oct 28 |
Poor people are impressed by stuff.
Rich people are impressed by results.
Don't outspend. Outwork.
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520 |
222 |
89.7k |
99 |
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| Oct 28 |
Don't buy the lambo to promote yourself. You'll only impress poor people. Which is most people. But not the ones with money. They're the ones you want. And they only wanna see you outwork everyone, not outspend everyone.
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337 |
194 |
90.6k |
220 |
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| Oct 28 |
You canât have main character energy with side character goals.
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402 |
267 |
93.9k |
63 |
. |
| Oct 28 |
What success is for you when youâre 20 will be different when youâre 30 and when youâre 40. Youâre just pursuing something else now⌠and thatâs okay.
Itâs okay to change your mind.
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160 |
45.1k |
181 |
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| Oct 27 |
Brutal truth: Youâre living too much in the future, and thatâs limiting your growth.
There is nothing more indicative of future success than the ability to ignore what could happen tomorrow and focus on what needs to happen today.
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449 |
199 |
95.7k |
231 |
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| Oct 27 |
Strategy is not eliminating problems, it's deciding which ones to focus on - which means some shit will always be fucked.
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170 |
164 |
54.1k |
121 |
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| Oct 27 |
Most small businesses, don't need more ideas, they need more execution.
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270 |
281 |
88.4k |
71 |
. |
| Oct 27 |
Most people get more rewarded for talking about their goals than going after them.
Which is why most people stay stuck and never start.
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232 |
65.1k |
137 |
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| Oct 26 |
The specificity of the request is inversely correlated with the skill of the recipient.
If someone sucks, you gotta tell them exactly what to do. If they're good, you can just tell them what you want to have happen, and they'll make it happen.
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93 |
101 |
47.8k |
244 |
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| Oct 26 |
Figuring things out is a wandering behavior. But people do really terribly with uncertainty.
That's why entrepreneurs get compensated so highly - because they take on more risk.
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102 |
166 |
60.8k |
178 |
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| Oct 26 |
Focusing on many things is a great way to fill your calendar and empty your bank account.
|
3k |
253 |
219 |
92k |
89 |
. |
| Oct 25 |
People get stuck when they realize what they want costs way more than they expected - but they don't stop wanting it.
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1.6k |
125 |
130 |
55.2k |
117 |
. |
| Oct 25 |
'Obsessed' is just a word people use to describe the price winners pay to win.
|
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211 |
176 |
65.8k |
78 |
. |
| Oct 25 |
You feel stuck because you think you deserve balance.
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150 |
189 |
73.4k |
53 |
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| Oct 24 |
No matter what self help gurus say: if you need applause to do your work, youâre never going to win. You'll always lose to someone who sees the work as the reward.
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179 |
178 |
49.1k |
163 |
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| Oct 24 |
The average American is overweight, divorced, and in debt.
It's okay to feel like you don't fit in when that's what fitting in means.
Some clubs aren't worth the cost of admission.
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175 |
58k |
182 |
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| Oct 24 |
Our fantasies are just reality without the downside.
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84 |
108 |
37.9k |
52 |
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| Oct 24 |
Just because you feel like shit doesn't mean you need to act like shit, treat other people like shit, or treat yourself like shit.
I think separating our feelings from how we behave is a sign of maturity, which has almost nothing to do with how old you are, only how skilled.
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201 |
81.5k |
277 |
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| Oct 23 |
You must first become misunderstood before you can become great.
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470 |
217 |
81k |
64 |
. |
| Oct 23 |
Most people die with 90% of their potential unused because they're unwilling to sacrifice their current self rather than their potential self.
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2k |
211 |
199 |
48.2k |
142 |
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| Oct 23 |
The only thing worse than breaking up with a bad business partner is not breaking up with a bad business partner.
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101 |
33.1k |
114 |
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| Oct 23 |
When your world is crumbling around you, the only thing you can do is the work.
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253 |
212 |
55.7k |
79 |
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| Oct 23 |
The older I get, the more I realize how few things you can do exceptionally well.
Which makes focusing, saying no, and ruthlessly prioritizing not a luxury but a requirement.
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213 |
54.3k |
176 |
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| Oct 23 |
Friendly reminder that you can feel terrible, have terrible circumstances, and still make the right decision.
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297 |
213 |
64.5k |
109 |
. |
| Oct 22 |
In the early days...
Mind-numbing boredom.
Physical exhaustion.
Social discomfort.
All expected prices of admission.
Onwards.
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| Oct 22 |
If we lose the details, we lose it all.
- Walt Disney
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124 |
55.1k |
54 |
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| Oct 22 |
You're right. You had it harder. You started with less. Bad things happened to you.
But believing those things limit you prevents you from becoming an example to everyone else like you.
Be the one who had it worse but still did better.
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263 |
76.3k |
237 |
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| Oct 21 |
Friendly reminder that feeling lost, anxious, and uncertain are good signs.
It means youâre pushing past what you know.
Theyâre called âgrowing painsâ for a reason.
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420 |
202 |
87.3k |
166 |
. |
| Oct 20 |
Feeling stressed, angry, and frustrated isnât the problem.
Letting stress, anger, and frustration stop you from doing the things you know you should be doing is the problem.
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205 |
152 |
56.5k |
174 |
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| Oct 20 |
In the infinite game of business, there are no winners or losers, only players and quitters.
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62k |
92 |
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| Oct 20 |
It takes every child a different amount of time to grow up and learn how to separate how they feel from how they act.
And some children never grow up. They just get older.
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171 |
157 |
61.8k |
172 |
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| Oct 20 |
Most people die with 90% of their potential unused because they're afraid of sacrificing their current life rather than their potential life.
When youâre 85 years old and on your deathbed - youâre not gonna wish you played it âsafeâ.
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320 |
227 |
90.9k |
235 |
. |
| Oct 20 |
You canât say you want to be in the top .1% and not be willing to do things 999 out of 1000 arenât.
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270 |
210 |
97.2k |
99 |
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| Oct 19 |
The best way to get new customers to do a really really really good job with your existing customers.
And if that doesnât work, you didnât put enough âreallyâs in front of âgood jobâ.
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104 |
125 |
47.7k |
184 |
. |
| Oct 19 |
The difference between your business and one 10x your size is: whatever big marketing push youâd make to launch something, they just do it all the time.
Volume negates luck.
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97 |
135 |
63.3k |
174 |
. |
| Oct 19 |
The difference between who you say you are and who you really are is the work you do when people are looking compared to the work that no one sees.
|
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253 |
135 |
96.1k |
147 |
. |
| Oct 18 |
The whole point of marketing is one thing: to gain trust. Because once someone trusts you, you donât need to do anything else besides keep it.
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294 |
171 |
87.2k |
142 |
. |
| Oct 18 |
One of the most painful parts of entrepreneurship - that breaks most people - is when you have to suffer today for mistakes you would never make today but you made years ago, but come due with interest.
|
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145 |
171 |
74.9k |
202 |
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| Oct 18 |
I know itâs hard for you to believe, but someone really can put in 10,000 times more work than you, but they can.
and thatâs how than can achieve 10,000x the outcome.
output = volume x leverage
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208 |
157 |
60.1k |
195 |
. |
| Oct 17 |
Switching strategies every month guarantees you'll always be a beginner.
Mastery comes from better, not new.
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311 |
204 |
88.7k |
109 |
. |
| Oct 17 |
You already know what to do. You just havenât done it enough times yet.
Success isn't some magic list nobody knows. It's an obvious list nobody does.
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487 |
259 |
85.2k |
150 |
. |
| Oct 17 |
The difference between who you are and who you could be is the important and not urgent work you can't do on a meeting and can only do alone.
|
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118 |
117 |
56.8k |
141 |
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| Oct 16 |
Whenever Iâm going through something hard, I try to ask myself:
âWhat story do I want to tell at the end of this?â
And then try to act accordingly.
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3.5k |
437 |
178 |
86.5k |
149 |
. |
| Oct 15 |
The easiest way to spot a novice is they optimize for optionality. They hop from opportunity to opportunity, always chasing the shiniest thing. But all the money is in going all in, not hedging your bets.
|
1.5k |
146 |
141 |
55k |
204 |
. |
| Oct 15 |
The size of your potential is determined by how many good opportunities you're willing to pass up while pursuing something great.
|
2.6k |
282 |
167 |
76.6k |
129 |
. |
| Oct 14 |
You underestimate the amount of times you need to say ânoâ to build something great.
|
2.2k |
242 |
165 |
66k |
84 |
. |
| Oct 14 |
Someone can have your best interests at heart and also give you terrible advice.
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287 |
218 |
87.6k |
80 |
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