Starting a business, pitching a customer, raising money. All hard. If you’re going to take the plunge, don’t be half-assed. Do it properly, prepare, put in the effort. If you’re going to swing, swing hard.

If you want a winning company, you need winners. That generally means hiring people better than you. How do you know if the other person is better than you? They intimidate you, they scare you a little, they are just better than you. You know. If you’re not sure, they’re not better than you. Put…

Lots of people in business are sneaky. Devious. Cunning. It can be tempting to mirror them. Fight fire with fire. Don’t. Sneaky people are considered dishonest. You don’t want that perception. Don’t be sneaky.

If you’re unhappy it’s because you’ve chosen to stay in a place of misery. No one else is making you miserable. The reason you want to blame someone else is you want an excuse to be miserable. You want to be miserable. It’s your choice. Nobody is holding you down.

You realise you had a gem, and you lost it. You realise you should have behaved differently, treated it differently.  Not taken it for granted. It upsets you. All that time, wasted. What’s the point of mending your ways now? Because one day is as good as a hundred. It doesn’t matter how many days…

Then do it on purpose. The alternative is to not know who you are, and do it by accident. That way lies a wasted life. Rather a life of living on purpose. First, find out who you are.

The ground floor. If you want a 100x return on an investment, you need to get in early. Which means you need to take enormous risk. If you’re not willing to take the risk, you can’t get the return. If you want the return, there’s no avoiding the risk.

It’s natural. When you have something, you take it for granted. It’s only when you have the opportunity to lose it that you appreciate what you have. So keep taking risks, keep moving. You’ll quickly learn how lucky you are.

If you carry your own opinion, you don’t need the crowd to support you. It’s yours, you made it, you own it. Ignore the crowd. Ignore their opinions. Find your own way.

When you are kind, generous, honest, and respectful with people, you water the grass. If you’re anything less, the grass quickly dries and the smallest spark can light it on fire. Better to avoid the risk of unnecessary fires. Go with wet grass.

Don’t react if someone contradicts you or argues with you Be cool, listen. The way they are behaving will teach you more than your reaction will teach you. If you’re busy reacting, you’re not learning. And it’s telling the other guy how you’re thinking. Don’t react.

When you’re not busy, you can’t handle lots of tasks. Multi-tasking makes you flustered, you can’t get through your workload. When you’re busy, really busy, then you can handle anything. Productivity is like a muscle. The more you’re using it, the stronger you get. So don’t stress about the mountain of work you can see…