"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
— Oprah Winfrey

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Victim or survivor mindset

“I think that there are two ways of looking at things that have happened to you. You can be a victim or you can be a survivor. Those are two very different cognitive positions. You can’t control what happens to you in either circumstance, but one is very powerful. You have overcome. One is you have had something happen to you and you are under that thing for quite some period of time. For me, if I hear someone and I hear that helplessness, one is that I want to reframe that experience. I want to tell a different story. I want them to tell a different narrative to themselves. I want them to rewrite that. In some ways, you want them to rewrite that narrative to survivorship and overcoming and what it took. You ask the right questions to get them to see that their own throughway in that case is based on their strength and ability. You want them to see those things rather than seeing the helplessness and powerlessness.”

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Moving forward

“When people are telling me that ‘I’m doing this because of my childhood’ or ‘I’m doing this because of this,’ I think you’re giving up some amount of power. You’re giving up a lot of power to something outside of yourself, and also, how you’re interpreting that event is not useful to you. There may be a lot of truth to the terrible things that have happened, but those terrible things—you have to shut the door at some point and say, “I am my own man or woman, and I move forward. … if you are somebody who uses other events as a reason to self-destruct, you’re ceding power… We see that even in companies—’I’m doing this because so-and-so made me angry. I’m doing this because…’—and you end up making some poor decisions and ceding power because of someone else. You’re willing to make a poor decision. You’re willing to give up. Sometimes people are willing to give up their entire future dreams because of X, Y, and Z, and it’s a tragedy. You want people to really understand the power they have to create their own lives at some point and that creation is not given to anyone else but you.”


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“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.”
– Ray Kroc

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There is a world of difference between owning a billion dollars, and having a parent who wons a billion dollars,

Just as there is a world of difference between owning a billion dollars and having an employer who owns a billion dollars.

Few Understand This...

Proximity to Wealth deludes many into thinking they own it.

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Try not to resist the change that come your way. Instead, let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
— Rumi

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So what if you started right now? Not tomorrow, not next week, not when you "feel ready." What if you picked up your phone right now and made that difficult call? What if you opened your laptop and wrote the first paragraph of that book? What if you put on your running shoes and stepped outside? What if you finally registered that business name you've been thinking about for months?

You don't need perfect conditions. You don't need to feel motivated. You don't need to have it all figured out. You just need to start. Take that first, imperfect step. Make that first, awkward attempt. Have that first, uncomfortable conversation.

Because here's the truth about change – it doesn't happen in your head. It happens in the real world, through real actions, with real consequences. All the mental preparation in the world can't replace five minutes of actual doing.


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I just wrote a new article.

Please read and share the feedback in the comments

Read it here: 🔗 What you really need to do

Stick to the basics

Do your job.
Sweat the details.
Put the team first.
Be attentive.
Ignore the noise.
Speak for yourself.

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Be the person who surprises others with your genuine interest in them, the respect you extend, and your disregard for unnecessary formalities or status symbols.

You’ll be astonished at how this approach earns you lasting respect and admiration. True greatness, as Cato demonstrated, lies in using one’s position not to elevate oneself but to uplift others.

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When you start caring more about credit than truth, your judgment decays.

The scientist racing to publish first overlooks crucial evidence that doesn't fit their story. The writer chasing popularity loses what made their voice worth hearing.

The strange thing is that recognition comes most reliably to those who forget about it and focus simply on seeing clearly.

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Your professional growth is your responsibility. It's not your employer's job to make you marketable; it's your responsibility.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive

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Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours of beating on your craft.
— Will Smith

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"You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you."

— Mehmet Oz

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To all the gladiators in the arena, we're all in the middle of writing our own stories. The worse the monsters, the more epic the story.

You either get an epic outcome or an epic story. Both mean you win.

Keep crushing. May your desires be greater than your obstacles.

Never quit

Happy New Year ✨❤️

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Whether you use it well or you don't use it well, the time will pass anyway. Maybe you should use it well.

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The key to productivity is doing more of what matters and less of what doesn’t. When you concentrate your mental and physical energy in one direction, you have the most impact.

One way to reduce the surface area of your attention is to ask yourself the difficult question of whether what you are doing really matters to the outcome you want. If you are ruthless, you can eliminate 20-40% of what you are doing today without impacting the most important things.

All the time you spend on the least important things comes at the expense of the most important things.

Asking the question is easier than answering it honestly. Admitting you’re doing something that doesn’t matter means you’ve been wasting your time. It’s much easier to keep doing what we’ve been doing and tell ourselves that if we just had one more productivity hack, we’d make more progress.

Being busy and being productive are not the same thing. Running around in circles is busy. Going toward your destination is productive. It’s easy to be busy. It’s hard to be productive.

The real “work” of productivity is less about improving efficiency and more about improving effectiveness.

Being productive is not about doing more; it’s about concentrating all your energy on the few things that matter.

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“Show me a person who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a person you can beat every time.”

— Lou Brock


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