Choose Yourself

by James Altucher

We can no longer afford to rely on others

When you put yourself out there on a daily basis, that’s going to happen (whether you deserve it or not): you get hate mail, you get rejected for opportunities (even if accepted for others), you get

Interesting.....I tried this more than once.

What you need to do is build the house you will live in. You build that house by laying a solid foundation: by building physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

You need to build a positive base: physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. Once

You use the corporate job as a rest stop on the way toward being healthy, on the way toward figuring out how to innovate and take advantage of the mythical safety net to move onto bigger and better things.

I never thought about it like that

inspiration. Inspiration doesn’t really exist.

This is an interesting thing to say.

Often, the successful mediocre entrepreneur should strive for excellence in ZERO-tasking. Do nothing. We always feel like we have to be “doing something” or we (or, I should say “I”) feel ashamed. Sometimes it’s better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all.

I can imaginemyself at the computer

Ultimately, life is a sentence of failures, punctuated only

Honesty is the only way to make money in today’s world.

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.” — Gandhi