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by
Lilly Singh
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June 24, 2018 - December 31, 2019
It’s a bit easier to bear a nine-to-five job that you hate because you know that at 5:00 P.M. you’re checking out, speeding away in your car while giving the middle finger in your rearview mirror. But if you have a career or goal that consumes your entire day, you need to like it to succeed.
Enjoying what you do is the only way you can commit so much time and energy to your work.
MEDITATE
DISCONNECT
It used to be that when people would accomplish something amazing, they would enjoy the moment and celebrate with friends and family.
Today when you accomplish something great, it’s a failure unless you ...
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When you are experiencing something exciting, beautiful, or rewarding, try to disconnect and just take the moment in.
Inspiration fuels the hustle, and what better inspiration than enjoying the results of your hard work?
Don’t cheat yourself by blazing through your life. Reflection is necessary and should be on your to-do list.
Life is like one giant YouTube video: it’s amazing to experience, but when too many things are happen...
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Being a Bawse requires you not only to make great decisions that will help you achieve your goals but also to commit to those decisions regardless of the obstacles you will face. The two most common obstacles are usually fear and distraction.
You’ll never truly know if you can accomplish something or be great at something if you don’t commit.
Being scared and nervous means you care, and not only is caring a beautiful thing, but it also means you value the outcome of a situation. However, fear and nervousness become problematic when they affect your performance.
“Fear and nervousness are nowhere on the path to success.”
The only way to overcome FOMO is to recognize that the joy of accomplishing goals is much greater than the disappointment of missing out on a little fun.
FOMO is like that annoying computer update that you ignore but it comes back the next night trying to get your attention all over again. It’s a constant test, and it’s one every Bawse needs to learn how to pass.
Train your brain to pay attention to the rewards you receive when hustle beats FOMO on the battlefield.
Focusing on your work moves you closer to reaching your goals.
hustler’s FOMO: the fear of missing out on accomplishment.
Inspiration is the fuel for your hustle. It runs through our inner engine and gives us the drive (see what I did there?) to get from our starting point to the accomplishment of our goals. Just like a car, when you’re running low on inspiration you need to refuel to get to your final destination.
When you’re sick, you get into bed and allow yourself to heal. When your hustle is not feeling well, you should prescribe it some inspiration and do the same.
want. A Bawse doesn’t just know what they want for Christmas; they know what they want from life. They have visions.
two types of visions: vision boards and visualization.
three reasons you should have a vision board:
Creating a vision board gives you clarity about what your goals are.
People know they have to work really hard, so they do, but sometimes they’re unsure of what they’re really working for.
Set clear goals and define them with clear images. You can’t hustle toward a blurry picture because you’ll never know if you’ve gotten there.
Creating a vision board helps you to be self-aware, which, it goes without saying, is a key Bawse quality. Success is subjective.
Your vision board will be filled with all the things you think are important—and what you think is important is very telling.
Taking a look at your vision board can often help you understand why you make the decisions you make.
picture of a stack of money. A vision board allows you to be constantly reminded of what you want in life. Now that you’ve gained clarity and self-awareness, you can motivate yourself by storing your goals in your subconscious.
A vision board can also help you make tough decisions. If you’re having a hard time making a decision about something—you have two choices and both are tempting—refer to the goals on your board and evaluate which of the two options align better with your vision.
Giving your vision board a glance can help you keep your eyes on the prize without being distracted by shiny objects.
If creating just one vision board will help you to become more self-aware, imagine how much you’ll learn about yourself with your second vision board! You can literally track how you’ve grown as a person when you compare your first and second boards.
Long-term visualization is when you imagine yourself in a scenario that you hope will become a reality one day. You’re not quite sure when or how it’ll happen; all you know is that you want it to happen.
The universe might respect the law of attraction, but it respects a good hustle even more.
Short-term visualization is helpful when you know you are going to be doing something specific and you want to imagine how the scenario will play out.
There is great power in knowing what you want and even greater power in pretending it’s already yours. Combine that with a strong work ethic, and Christmas can come more than once a year.
bartering, it’s that you need to start high. That’s because you’re never going to get exactly what you want, so you better ask for more than you need. When you go for something you want, there are three possible outcomes: ideal, workable, and horrible.
A Bawse isn’t scared to aim for ideal, because a Bawse knows that, at worst, they’ll likely end up arriving at a workable scenario. But if you sell yourself short and play it safe, you may end up disappointed.
Don’t give up before you even try.
It’s fine to push for what you want, as long as you’re charming and polite about it.
If you aim low, you’ll end up lower than you intended. That’s why you have to aim high. No one else is going to compensate for your lack of ambition.
The point is, don’t be afraid to ask for things. The worst that will happen is that you’ll be told no.
So what do you want to do? Who do you want to become? Where do you want to work? Whatever your answer is, make that your Plan A and don’t clutter your mind with three other plans that are backups. Your mind, energy, and time need to be united for your Plan A to work.
If you’re funny, you shouldn’t have to notify people that you’re funny.
If you’re nice, you don’t have to tell people you’re nice; they’ll be able to see that.
“A BAWSE KNOWS THAT IF YOU WANT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY, YOU NEED TO SHOW PEOPLE WHO YOU ARE, AND THEN KEEP SHOWING THEM.
If you’re going to talk the talk, then you have to walk the walk. In fact, if you can walk the walk, I really see no need for you to do any talking unless you’re specifically asked about the walk you are providing. LESS TALKING. MORE WALKING.
“Words lie; actions can lie too. Consistency speaks the truth.”
