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Cultivate the heart of a hustler.
The key to building up that trait in your own personality is accepting that you’re never hustling toward a certain goal. Hustlin’ is a motor that’s got to be running inside of you each and every day.
And its fuel is passion.
Some people try to portray me as a troll, or a bully, but that’s not accurate.
Why you lying, 50?
That was the case when I read Robert’s 48 Laws of Power. Ask me today what that book was about and all I can really tell you is, “As the student, never outshine the master.”
I’ve accepted that the punches are going to come in life, and some of them are going to land. But I’m always going to survive and keep fighting for the things I want. That has to be your attitude, too.
Don’t make the same mistake. If you’ve put in the work, and know your shit, raise your damn hand! Every single time. There’s nothing worse than being someone who’s spent hours—even when you’re off the clock at home—studying your company’s reports, but when your boss asks for that information, you always let someone else provide it first.
The truth is that I work much harder than I play. That’s because I enjoy the work more. My attitude toward my career is “whistle while you work.”
Someone with a strong passion stance, on the other hand, will really dig in. Get their feet planted and shoulders squared up. So no matter how hard the world pushes back, or how much negativity gets thrown their way, they ain’t budging an inch.
At the end of the day, I like betting on sure things. And the only sure thing you can always count on, 100 percent of the time, is yourself.
In order to get the best out of the people around you, sometimes you have to clearly and forcefully articulate the opportunities you see for them. Just because you see something for them, you can’t assume they see it, too.
Accept that everyone on your team is going to have their own hang-ups, issues, and insecurities, and then address them with the appropriate energy. You can’t have a one-size-fits-all mind-set when it comes to effective leadership. You need to tailor a specific approach to every single person on your team in order to get the most out of them.
You cannot, under any circumstances, compromise when it’s your vision on the line. You have to be prepared to go against popular opinion and turn down money—even if it jeopardizes your relationships—until you’re confident you’ve found the right opportunity.
Once we get the things we are striving for, we rarely remain satisfied with them. The things are just the bait. Chasing after them forces us to evolve, and it is the evolution and not the rewards themselves that matters to us and to those around us. This means that for most people success is struggling and evolving as effectively as possible.
As long as you’re comfortable walking your truth, no one will ever beat you at being you, either.
