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If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.
‘I wish everyone could get rich and famous and everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that’s not the answer.’ – Jim Carrey
As you grow professionally, it is not what you know but how you deal with people that determines your success.
I told myself that relationships can wait. That call to my parents can wait. Saying ‘I love you’ to my wife and kids can wait. Spending time with them without my phone can wait. I told myself, ‘I don’t have the time.’
Time is the only thing that matters. Everything else can wait.
If there is anything that should not scale with size, it is leadership.
It should get harder for you to lead, as you grow. Because people are different. They are not you!
It is only when both parents contribute in raising their child that they keep their partnership alive.
The awards are never for us. They are for the positions we hold.
Never start up because you want to make money from it.
Treating our lifestyle standards as a measure of our success is a sign of failure.
Ninety-nine per cent of people want to be led. They want to be told what to do, and then they will go on to do their best. They want to be led. Not managed.
Hope is not a strategy.
The scars that you wear on your body. Don’t regret them. Don’t hate them. Don’t reject them. They are signs of a battle you fought.
And even if you lost, the scars were left behind as a reminder of who you were and who you can be.
The trick to waking up early is not waking up early. It is sleeping on time!
Waking up early fizzles out, sleeping on time is what flourishes.
Share your journey. Document your journey. Narrate your journey.
Curiosity has created more opportunities than hard work ever will.
Targets are the enemy of habits. Don’t set targets. Set habits!
The more we get the process right, the closer we get to the targets.
The more we run after targets, the more we sign up for feeling hollow once we achieve them.
Habits hire us forever and take us higher, whereas targets tame us and leave us cluel...
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Before you assume, try this crazy thing. ASK!
Asking is the best thing to do, before making assumptions. It either validates your assumption or you get to understand people better. Either way, you get to be a better communicator. Win-win :)
Three things that will tell you who/what you consider as important in your life. 1. Your first hour after you wake up 2. Your last hour before you sleep 3. Your calendar
1:1 catch-ups with my team,
The things that are easy to do are also the things that are easy to ignore. If you choose to do them with consistency instead of ignorance, they can change your life completely.
Daily progress isn’t about becoming an expert in your field. It is developing the mindset that progress is a way of life. It is like breathing. We rarely stop to acknowledge it. But we breathe every second. We would die without it.
Reading books will not make you smart. Watching motivational videos will not make you driven. Writing will not make your thoughts clearer. We are not shaped by these things. We are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves.
Reading books isn’t the answer. The answer is what we take away from them.
We know others through their actions. We know ourselves through our thoughts.
Thoughts are powerful, when they are converted into actions. Without action, they are simply broken promises.
We nod to show that we are listening. But we are not listening to the opposite person. Instead, we are listening to our mind telling us what to say.
Your attendance doesn’t define your discipline. Your attention does.
Your discipline is defined when you are fully present, for all the times you are present. That shows you are interested, enjoying the process, and in the flow!
Who you spend time with will define the stories you hear. The stories you hear will define the stories in your head. The stories in your head will define you.
Choose who you spend time with, wisely!
Optimize for learning, not salary. Optimize for progress, not stability. Optimize for facing fears, not for comfort.
Some of the smartest people in the world are competing for your sleep time. You know what that means? Your sleep is VERY IMPORTANT! to you AND to them. Don’t let them win!
Saying no to everything else and sleeping on time – is the greatest secret sauce of self-love.
Do not allow comfort to make you believe that you no longer need to try!
Happiness certainly never comes through staying cool in what seems comfortable. Happiness is simply a result of slaying your comfort, so you always stay comfortable staying out of your comfort zone.
No step is small, as long as it is headed in the direction of where we want to go.
Seeking boredom in the relentless daily habits makes you create success automatically.
You become like the people you spend your time with – online and offline.
mind’s energy should be spent in thinking. Not remembering!
Writing helps tell the brain that this is important.
I put everything on a calendar. My calendar is my lifeline. Everything is on my calendar. Bills to pay, birthdays to remember, threads to write, weekly routines.
And for me prioritization is about scheduling. Future emails serve that purpose.
