Lead engineer. Distilling 100+ personal development books and years of leading projects into one simple system for engineering your life.
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An emotion has a lifespan of about 90 seconds.
After that, it only survives because you keep feeding it.
Replaying the conversation.
Building the case.
Writing the story.
The feeling is a wave.
The story is the ocean.
Let the wave pass.
Overthinking is not free.
Every hour spent deciding is an hour you didn't spend finding out.
And the plan you're polishing isn't getting better. It's getting safer.
So aim for 1% worse and go.
You'll be three versions ahead by Friday.
I believe that results are a reflection on the actions you take on the things that actually matter - 80/20 rule and theory of constraints.
I explain all of it here:
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You feel uncerainty when you confront what you're afraid of.
And what you afraid of is often your bottleneck holding your progress.
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One of the good rules is to find your bottleneck and work on it. Slain your dragon.
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It's better to confront the challenges head-on.
And the main challenge is your bottleneck.
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Getting better at everything is how you get better at nothing.
The bottleneck is the one thing making everything else slow.
A non-bottleneck done well is still a non-bottleneck.
Find the one thing. Ignore the rest on purpose.
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Write down what you believe.
All of it. The quiet ones too.
"I'm bad with money."
"Success requires suffering."
"People leave."
Now ask the only question that matters:
Is this true, or is this a habit?
Most of your limits were never yours.
Delete them.
Write down what you believe.
All of it. The quiet ones too.
"I'm bad with money."
"Success requires suffering."
"People leave."
Now ask the only question that matters:
Is this true, or is this a habit?
Most of your limits were never yours.
Delete them.
Michael G. retweeted
Stop trying to destroy your emotions.
They're not your enemy.
They're reporting on something real.
Anger tells you a boundary got crossed.
Fear tells you this matters.
Envy tells you what you actually want.
Read the signal.
You don't have to obey it.
Stop trying to destroy your emotions.
They're not your enemy.
They're reporting on something real.
Anger tells you a boundary got crossed.
Fear tells you this matters.
Envy tells you what you actually want.
Read the signal.
You don't have to obey it.
Go get after your biggest goals!
And whenever you’re blocked when you’re thinking about it, there’s a fear that can be conquered through thinking techniques.
You don't find yourself.
You decide, then act, then become.
Every action is a vote for the person you want to be.
Skip the workout? A vote.
Send the pitch? A vote.
Stay quiet in the meeting? A vote.
There's no neutral vote.
So you're always electing someone.
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Learned helplessness is broken by action, not by insight.
You can't think your way out of it.
You have to do one thing you fully control.
Make the call. Clean the desk. Send the message. Finish the small thing.
Effort in your own hands is medicine.
Learned helplessness is broken by action, not by insight.
You can't think your way out of it.
You have to do one thing you fully control.
Make the call. Clean the desk. Send the message. Finish the small thing.
Effort in your own hands is medicine.
Discipline fails when the reason is borrowed.
Someone else's plan needs pushing.
Your own reason pulls.
So stop pushing yourself.
Find the part of this you'd do without being paid, praised, or noticed.
That's not a passion speech.
That's leverage.