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My Best of April

  1. You want two things:
       a.  Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity. No wasted movement. No wasted effort.
       b.  Compounding. Every project should have a long runaway and feed the others.

  2.  If you think you’re running 10 minutes late, text to say you’ll be 15 minutes late. That way the other person gets one disappointment and one pleasant surprise. Most people do the opposite: they say they’re 5 minutes late when it’s 10 and end up annoying the other and looking like total fools.

  3. If a competent CEO got to run your life for a day, what is the first thing they would eliminate?

  4. The answers you seek are found in the questions you avoid. link to full article

  5. Your life will change when you realize that you have to sacrifice short term freedom in order to earn long term freedom. Sacrifice is the cost of entry. Delayed gratification is the key to the life you want.

  6. Don't let the hope of finding a better way prevent you from starting down the best path you know of right now. This day won't come again

  7. Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against. Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love.

  8. A reminder to appreciate the opportunity we have right now: If you're 37... Instead of regretting that you can't wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you're 90 and you've woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.

  9. "That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hard things don’t get easier, you get stronger. You grow. You change. You become different. And if you show up for long enough, somewhere along the way, you fall in love with the struggle. You find peace in chaos. True flow. That is the magic of life

  10. You can't make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action.

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