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Not a single way

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The world is full with people that define success in a single way.

Nothing bad with that, but the reminder is that success has different shapes, it comes at different times, and it is your responsibility (not theirs) to define how success looks like for you.

Getting far

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If you’re a marketer and can only talk to marketers, you are not going to get far.

If you’re a salesman and can only talk to sales folks, you are not going to get far.

If you’re a developer and can only talk to developers, you will still have job security, but you are not going to get far.

If you’re a strategist and can only talk to business people, you are not going to get far.

Build networks instead, inside and outside of your turf. Learn to speak different languages and to talk to different people. Be a mediator and an initiator.

That’s when you are going to get far.

Your turn

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It’s your turn.

There’s no need for someone to tell you it is, no need to wait for the perfect situation, no need to take that training or listen to that podcast before you get to it.

It’s your turn, your turn is now.

You own this.

Train your consistency muscles

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Consistency is difficult.

Because consistency requires three difficult choices.

  1. Old over new. Consistency is about doing more of what you have already done instead of going out and pursue whatever is shining.
  2. Long-term over short-term. Consistency delivers results in the end and you can’t be expecting easy and temporary wins.
  3. Rigour over laziness. Consistency means that you will not take the easy way out, no matter how fascinating that could look.

The good thing is, you can train your consistency muscles starting from the small things, the daily habits that might seem insignificant at first.

Pay attention as you get to implement those.

How does it feel?

The greatest invention

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Ask a historian, “What was mankind’s greatest invention?” Fire? The wheel? The sword? I would argue it’s history itself. History isn’t fact. It’s narrative, one carefully curated and shaped. Under the pen strokes of the right scribe, a villain becomes a hero. A lie becomes the truth.

Foundation, season 1 episode 9

You probably have no interest in writing or controlling history, but you should be invested in managing your own narrative. Who you are, what you stand for, what version of you is in your future, what goals will take you there, what people will you have closeby, what decisions you are making every day.

It’s easy to delegate all of this to others.

Be the right scribe to your very own history.