Just a reminder:
- we have all done unforgivable things
- we have all wanted to punch holes in a wall
- we have all made someone cry
- we have all let someone down
- we have all had a broken heart
- we have all told a lie
- we have all wanted to throw our life away
- we have all stayed up late overthinking
- we are all humans and we are trying to do better today than we did yesterday
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Be the change you want to see.
In my work experience, I've come to the conclusion there are two types of entrepreneurs:
- those who focus on money, hiring cheap labor to just do what they say
- those who invest in great ideas, surrounding themselves with smarter people who share the same goals & values
The average American spends $15 a day eating out. $450 a month. $600-$750 including drinks. In 2 months you can buy a ticket to travel anywhere in the world. You can afford to travel, you're just too lazy to cook.
The Four Agreements
1. Be Impeccable with Your Word
- Speak with integrity.
- Say only what you mean.
- Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others.
- Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.
2. Don't Take Anything Personally
- Nothing others do is because of you.
- What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dreams.
- When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
3. Don't Make Assumptions
- Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want.
- Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama.
- With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.
4. Always Do Your Best
- Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.
- Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse, and regret.
Maybe the journey isn't so much about becoming anything. Maybe it's about unbecoming everything that isn't really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.
—Unknown
We all have slow days, off days, days we feel tired or uninspired, but they are nothing to concern yourself with. Like an ocean the stillness is just another of our natural states. Soon, the winds will pick up, the waves will rise, and your imagination will flow again.
—Beau Taplin, Creative Block
Two things define you: your patience when you have nothing, and your attitude when you have everything.
—Unknown
It's about the follow-through, not the idea →
We are a culture that glorifies ideas. In tech circles, everyone wants to discuss the latest tech trends (live-streaming! Drones!) In the movie or publishing industry, thousands of e-mails are exchanged about which genres are hot (fantasy!) and which are not (vampires!) Do a Google search for “The Next Big Idea” and you’ll get 300 million results, many of them blog posts purporting to contain the secret to success. In interviews, candidates are often assessed on the strength of their ideas. At dinner parties, we all love sitting next to the “Idea Person”.
And yet, the people who are most likely to be called “Idea People” from the outside know exactly how little an idea in of itself is worth. [...]
Ideas are like candy—colorful, fun, easy to indulge in.
The hard part—the part that really matters—is the follow-through.
Why don’t we glorify that instead?
What is a Follow-Through Person?
Someone who knows that good execution is 90% of what makes anything succeed.
Someone who values getting shit done.
Someone who honors the craft of getting shit done well.
Someone who recognizes that in order to make the idea live, she must inspire others to also want to make the idea live, through a combination of planning, research, critical thinking, and effort.
Someone who fights the devil in the details every single day.
Someone who does not pat herself on the back when the idea is good, but only when the incarnation of the idea is good.
Someone who does not flinch at the possibility that her idea may not be good enough.
Someone who soldiers on through the hard, the repetitive, the frustrating, the boring, all for the sake of making something real.
Let’s celebrate that person.
Let’s fantasize about being that person.