If you want to lead, you need to learn how to communicate (in writing). Here are five simple rules: A person’s writing is a window to his brain. Endless rambling interspersed with exclamation marks, no punctuation and no paragraphs are signs of a muddled mind. If you want to succeed you need to think clearly. If you can’t write…
It’s easy to fib. To tell a white lie. To not hurt someone’s feelings. To say the politically correct thing. As the DPJ says, “No easy day.” No one said life would be easy. Being happy is not easy. If you want to be happy, tell the truth. You will attract the right kind of…
No thorns, no throne. No gall, no glory. No cross, no crown. So don’t get upset when you hit a rough patch. You’re on the right path.
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.
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.
That’s the first question. If the answer is maybe, stop. There are no guarantees of winning. But you are guaranteed to not win if you don’t want it.
Who generates your revenue? Who uses your product? Answer that question before you take a single step. Otherwise, you’ll be backtracking.
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…
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…
A new job, a new opportunity, a new country, a new challenge. A knock on the door. Why do you hesitate to take it? Why do you hesitate to open the door? What are you afraid of? Open it.
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.