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And if you want to climb the corporate ladder, you have to form alliances, be strategic, outperform your targets, and be great at what you do.
“Resistance is always lying and always full of shit.”
Back then I had no idea how to get things done. I always gave up quickly, felt stuck, unhappy, and frustrated.
this: If you keep saying yes, you’re living someone else’s life.
“We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
I’m a pretty skeptical person. But I’m also a pragmatist. I believe in what works. That’s why I never challenge religion or spirituality because it works for millions of people.
“Hard work. Dedication.”
“Perfectionists are their own devils.” —Jack Kirby
When you constantly worry about making mistakes, doubt creeps in your mind. And that causes indecision.
“The combination of concern over mistakes and procrastination may be a crucial factor in the maintenance of worry. On the one hand, it may prolong existing threats because no steps are taken to cope. On the other hand, it may increase existing threats or even produce additional threats because initially solvable problems will pile up, thus creating an overload of problems that may finally be insoluble.”
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
“When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.”
“The further I advance in age, the more I find work necessary. It becomes in the long run the greatest of pleasures, and takes the place of the illusions of life.”
Irvine, it showed that it takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the original task after an interruption.
it showed that it takes an average of 25 minutes to return to the original task after an interruption. That’s a waste of useful time.
Leonard Mlodinow, a physicist, who also co-authored two books with Stephen Hawking, recently shared scientific research in his book Elastic about taking time off. He demonstrates that taking time off work improves our well-being: “Though some may consider “doing nothing” unproductive, a lack of downtime is bad for our well-being, because idle time allows our default network to make sense of what we’ve recently experienced or learned.”
“So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.”
When things go wrong, we become our own worst enemy because we focus on things we don’t control.
Essentially, we only control our own actions and mindset.
What counts is that we do the right thing because that is all we can do. We don’t control outcomes. Do you see?
Similarly, when you’re struck with bad luck, don’t complain and say stuff like, “why me!?” Instead, accept it, and then focus your energy on finding a solution. Always keep a positive mindset.
Well, if you want to be productive, the most important thing is consistency.
“Belief will help create the fact.”
You will never become a respectable leader without putting in the work. Your life will never change unless you take action.
But that’s not the point. You know this. There’s no outcome without action.
Wallace D. Wattles, one of the first famed personal development authors, said it best: “You get rid of the thought of competition. You are to create, not to compete for what is already created. You do not have to take anything away from any one.”
So when you’re expecting that the world economy will not grow, you’re actually betting against mankind! I don’t believe that. Humans always find a way to survive and prosper. That’s simply what we do.
What is his key to success, according to himself? Focusing on the basics. He says: “You don’t get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.”
“Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn’t just skills like computer technology. It’s the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.”
Muhammad Ali once said that: “It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor, and author of How Will You Measure Your Life? writes: “The single most important factor in our long-term happiness is the relationships we have with our family and close friends.”
Christensen puts it well in How Will You Measure Your Life?: “In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder.”
“Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live properly.”
“Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.”
“Success is sequential, not simultaneous.”
You see, things take time. And when you combine patience with compounding, you achieve the biggest results.
