Ready to go

For how long will you sit on the bench, waiting for someone to pick you, to give you instructions, to confirm your worth?

Life’s not a game with a clearly delimited field, written rules, and a given amount of players.

You are already warmed up and ready to go.

Just take the first step.

Give and build

Do you give trust or do you build trust?

The answer is clearly yes.

Trust is something you have to give and that needs building and strengthening day after day.

And for both aspects of trust you need actions, not words.

It goes away

Most things last between a few seconds and a few minutes.

Then, we make them linger in the form of thoughts, feelings, desires, fears, preoccupations, so they become a central part of our life and drive our behavior.

Next time you feel angry, bored, worried, nervous, awkward, disappointed, try and sit with it without doing nothing. Nothing at all.

You’ll be surprised by how quickly that goes away.

Onto the next one.

Clouds and sun

When the sky is cloudy, is the sun still there?

That’s a powerful lesson by Daniel Sá Nogueira, coach and trainer.

That is to say, when you have problems and life seems grim, can you still be happy? Problems are problems, and happiness is happiness. They are separate things, and we should try to not mix them. And when we succeed, we will find ourselves pondering our problems while being, at the same time, happy.

Your own thing

It is no longer enough to be able to do your own thing.

Writing a blog post, setting up a campaign, giving an inspirational presentation, writing sequences that sell, hosting an insightful podcast. 99% of us can no longer thrive off of only mastering one of those things.

The two things we need to add to the picture are:

  1. Doing your own thing at scale – e.g., coordinating the writing and distribution of 100 blog post in one year.
  2. Doing your own thing in a way that serves other people that work with you – e.g., coordinating the writing and distribution of a series of blog posts that present the product uniquely and faithfully, while at the same time increases the win rate of prospects in a customer segment.

Art is for the 1%.

For the rest of us, it’s business.