Don’t worry about what other people are doing. You do you. If people want to judge you, let them. 

They have their path and you have your path. You’re going to want different things then they do. 

Maybe they want material items and you want to have great experiences instead. Maybe they care about money and you care about freedom. Maybe they want a billion dollar company and you want a small company. Whatever it may be our paths and end goals will be different so there’s no need to compare yourself with others.

It will waste your energy and time. Focus on what makes you happy. Focus on what makes you tick. Don’t worry about what your friend or neighbor or co-worker is doing. Your goals aren’t aligned. 

If you both have the same end goal it doesn’t matter. You’re still different. 

Worry about what you have control of and how to execute on your plans. Don’t worry what other people are doing. Go work your ass off and keep YOUR goal in mind. 

You shouldn’t care if your friend makes 200k if you’re end goal is freedom and living a quiet life. Money shouldn’t be your driving force. 

It might drive your friend and you should feel happy for them but don’t be jealous. Don’t be hateful. Don’t talk shit about her behind her back. Congratulate her and move on. 

Don’t get caught up in trying to impress other people. You’ll end up feeling empty at the end of the day. You’ll want more and you won’t know why. Don’t get sucked into this trap. 

Focus on how you can improve yourself and what necessary steps you need to take to accomplish your goals. 

Change is needed. Change is hard. The unknown is scary. 

Would you rather be unhappy and content or happy and challenged?

It’s the choice we all have to make. If you’re unhappy with what you’re doing change it. Work to make your life better. 

So many people go to their job day after day. Doing the same thing. Unhappy but unwilling to change. For fear of the unknown. 

Fear is paralyzing but it’s not the only factor. Looking dumb in front of others. Worrying about what your family and friends will think. Worrying what random people think. 

Failing sounds so permanent. It sounds like the end. That’s it. You’ve failed and lost. 

Look at small failures as lessons to live by. Don’t look at them as the end of the road. Look at your failures as necessary steps to get you where you want to be. 

If you don’t want to work at your job anymore make a plan to quit. Start something on the side. Work your ass off to achieve your goal. Make the deadline concrete. No matter what happens I, quitting my job on this day.

If you really hate what you do change should be easier. The unknown will be thought at first but worst comes to worst you get another job. 

Plan it out and execute. What’s stopping you?

Even if it doesn’t seem like something you’re remotely interested in, listen or read about it. Question your own assumptions.

Why don’t I enjoy this? Could I end up liking this topic? Will this topic help me in some way?

Look for different strategies or methods you can implement into your life from this information. 

Look for different perspectives on topics or issues you believe in. It’s good to see what people think and why they think like that.

If you hate history books read a history book. If you don’t enjoy model trains, try reading an article on model trains. 

You never know what you’ll find. You never know what topic you might be interested in. You’ll never know unless you try a bunch of different things. They don’t necessarily have to be reading or listening.

It could be a different sport or activity. It could be a new way of doing something. 

Especially if you’re trying to figure out what you want to do with your life. Try a bunch of different things. 

It will feel strange and be painful initially but you never know what you might end you liking. 


It’s an incredible experience to win. Your confidence is higher than ever before. You feel like you’re on the top of the world. Winning is important, but it’s not everything.

Losing can be more important. The lessons you learn from losing can help you prepare more for your next matchup. 

Losing helps you get better. Losing will help make the little things you do on a daily basis better. Losing helps engrain habits. 

Focus on what you can learn from losing, not the bad things. Focus on what you did well and on what you can continue to improve. 

Losing hurts in he moment. It may hurt a week from then. Don’t let losing get into your head. 

Move on from it. Focus on your next opportunity. 

Of course we all want to win. We have to be realistic. We’re not going to win every time. 

Learn from your mistakes. Make the proper improvements. Follow through with the strategies you’ve learned from losing. 

You have a million things going on at once. 

You want to start something but you feel like you have no time left in your day. You feel like you’re being pulled in a thousand directions. 

You have a few options. 

First off, we all have time in our day. It’s an excuse as to why you’ve not yet started working towards your goals. 

Secondly, if you have too much going on, eliminate something to make room for your goals. You don’t have to watch TV at night. You don’t have to go to dinner with friends. You don’t have to take a long lunch. Focus on activités that will pay off in the long term. 

You can use the time you have to work. It may be only 30 minutes here and there but it will pay off. You’re learning instead of wasting time on nothing. 

Evaluate your days. Figure out areas and times where you’re wasting precious time. 

Life is too short to waste it living someone else’s life. You can still have a job and work on your own side project at the same time. You just have to make time for it.

It may be hard. It may be different then what you’re used to doing. It will pay off. You’ll learn more and more each day. Keep with it.

Take off lunch and work on your business. Read instead of watch TV. Stay up late to work on a passion project.

You have time in your day, you just have to prioritize what’s important. 

We all go through them. Some more than others. They’re tough to get out of. 

You don’t want to do anything. It feels like what you’re doing will never work. It feels like it will never pay off. You feel like giving up. You have to push through these periods. 

Ruts usually only last a day or two. In the grand scheme of things a very short duration of your life. When you feel like you’re getting into a rut take a step back. 

Ask yourself why you feel like you’re in this position. Is it your mentality? Is it getting harder? Does it seem impossible to overcome? 

Most of the time it’s just a mental barrier. Maybe you’ve never done it before. Whatever the case may be try and wrk through it.

Remain consistent. Work hard. Stay focused on your goals. Remind yourself if you don’t do this you won’t accomplish what you’ve set out to do. Let that drive you out of the rut. 

Remain positive throughout ruts. 

Work through them. Don’t give up on your dreams because of a bad day or a bad week or bad month. It’s such a small period of time. 

Have faith in the process and continue your hard work.

Don’t think of it as work. Don’t feel like it’s something you have to do on a daily basis.

You’re doing what you do because you want to. You’re trying to accomplish some goal. You’re trying to better yourself. 

If you’re going to practice a new skill on a consistent basis you have to enjoy it.

Have fun when you’re practicing or studying. Come up with ways to spice up the way you study or practice. Don’t make it boring for yourself. You’ll eventually stop if it feels like you’re working. 

It’s fun to get better. It’s fun to learn. It’s fun to win. It’s fun to be good. Learning a new skill can be fun for the majority of the time. Your attitude towards your goals matters. 

If you go into each day appreciation what you have and being excited to have fun practing and learning, you’ll never stop getting better. You’ll consistently get better. 

Don’t take yourself so seriously. Laugh when you make a mistake and learn from it. It’s okay to have fun while you work. That’s not against the rules.

Create your own schedule for “working” on your project. Work at it consistently. When things become stale for you and it begins to feel like work, take a step back. 

Add fun to what you’re doing. Attack your goals with a positive attitude and can do anything approach. 

Incorporate fun into your practices. Don’t look at your goals as work. Look at them as improvements and learning experiences. 

Life’s too short to be taken seriously. Have fun. Enjoy the process.

It’s important to want to improve and get better. It’s important to push yourself.

Don’t negatively beat yourself for not accomplishing something though. Learn from it. Get better because of it. Don’t be so hard on yourself for little nit picky things.

Challenging yourself is so important to going to the next level. Get outside of your comfort zone to improve. It’s going to be intimidating and scary but very necessary. You’ll feel better after you’ve done it and you’ll realize it wasn’t as bad as you’d thought. 

Focus on improvement and pushing yourself but don’t get down on yourself. It does you no good. Push for improvement.

Negativity will kill your momentum. If you don’t believe that you’re capable of achieving your goals and reinforce that with negative self-talk you won’t accomplish much of anything.

Push yourself and always believe that what you’re doing now will pay off. You will accomplish what you’ve set out to do. 

Push yourself with positive lessons. Spin whatever happens in your life into a positive situation – for the most part. 

You can’t be the main person beating you up. As soon as someone says something negative about what you’re doing, you’ll give up. 

You’re capable of winning. Push yourself beyond your limits. Don’t settle for mediocrity. Push for greatness.

It’s not always going to be fun. It definitely won’t be easy all the time. Anything worth creating is hard.

Once it starts getting hard you’ll feel like quitting. 

Push past this feeling. It should be temporary. If it persists, ty a different approach towards your objective. Don’t keep banging your head against the wall. If you do that you’re sure to give up. 

Quitting is the easy way out. It doesn’t make all the hard work you’ve put in worth it. 

Persistance and mental toughness pay off. If you continue practicing you’ll get better. It may take a year or ten years but either way you’ll eventually succeed.

It also really matters what your definition of success is. If you just want to start a business. Once you’ve done it you may check out. You may stop trying. 

Alter your projects to fall in line with your goals. 

Feeling like quitting and giving up is normal. That’s when most people stop. If you push yourself past this point you’ll be rewarded. It may not be on this project but the lessons you will learn are important. 

You can achieve anything you set your mind to if you’re stubborn enough.

Right now you’re capable of accomplishing your goals. You can do whatever you want and you have the skills necessary to do it. You just need to believe in your abilities and knowledge.

It seems easy enough. Of course there’s much more to but that’s a huge first step. 

It can be a challenge starting something new by yourself. Social pressures will be all around you. People will tell you you’re wasting time. They’ll tell you it’s not worth it. They’ll judge you for what you’re trying to do. 

Don’t let that get to you. Don’t listen to  the people that don’t matter. No matter what you’re trying to do you’ll always have opposition. 

What you’re doing is different from the normal path. It’s something that not many people do.

In the end you have to think about what you truly want. Maybe it’s freedom. Maybe it’s time. Maybe you want to provide for your family or maybe you just want to do something different from anyone else. You want to go after huge goals. You want to challenge yourself. You want to push beyond your limits. Go do it.

You can start anything you want. It takes a ton of work and time and sacrifice but if it brings you your ultimate goal – time, freedom, or reward – that time you put in will be worth it.

You might as well try. Do something different. 


Don’t think you know everything. You don’t. You never will. That’s the best part about starting something. Even if you’ve been doing it for 10 years you can learn something new.

You can learn a different technique. Something small to change. At that point it becomes a lot of fine tuning. Making the small little techniques and processes better.

Always take advice from someone who’s been doing it longer than you. If someone you know is doing something that’s working ask for their advice.

Implement their strategies to see if they’ll work for you. They may not, but it’s worth trying.

The worst thing that happens is you find a process that doesn’t work for you. If it does work than you’ve just learned a new lesson and a new way to do things. 

Don’t ever think you can’t learn something for someone else. Don’t think you’re too good to learn. 

Learning is an endless journey. It’s exciting to try new techniques. It’s exciting to see improvement.

Look at advice and learning as necessary to getting better. It will help you get to your goals quicker. Take advice and tips and lessons constantly.

Make sure you’re getting the advice from a reliable source as well. 

At some point you’ll be on the other side giving advice to someone sitting in a familiar spot. Remember to always give back and help others get better.

Advice is crucial to improvement. 

When something didn’t go right. When we do poorly on an exam. When we played like crap. When we fail, we distress in different ways.

Most people will turn to some form of abuse. Sometimes it’s drugs. Sometimes it’s alcohol. Sometimes it’s just depression. It’s giving up. Don’t fall into these traps.

Do something differently. 

Instead of abusing your body and mind, try working out. Try meditation. Try going for a walk. 

Running is a full body workout. It’s great to go hammer a run after a rough day at work or an argument. You’ll feel so much better mentally and physically. 

It will also help give you clarity on the situation. If you go for a longer run you’ll be able to honk the situation fully through. Maybe you’ll realize it wasn’t that big of deal. Maybe you’ll realize the mistake and can avoid it next time.

Meditation will slow your mind down. It will help you clear your mind. It will help you have alone time to just sit and think. 

Walking will help cool you off. If possible get out into nature. Realize how incredible everything is around. Realize how great you have it. 

You don’t have to abuse your body after failing. Do something productive and learn from it. It’s not the end of the world. 

Move on and attack your next objective. When something goes wrong act in a way that will benefit your body and mind, not destroy them.

We have the ability to learn any skill we want. We have all the resources available to us. 

We have the internet. It gives us the ability to work from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. We have an opportunity unlike anyone before us in history. 

We have the ability to do whatever we want from wherever we want.

We can learn any skill we want online, for free. The cost of this information 30 or 40 years ago would be impossible to attain unless you were considerably wealthy. 

Now, your past truly doesn’t matter. Your upbringing means nothing. Where you came from isn’t important. What’s important is that we all have the same access to the same information.

Of course, there are exceptions to this rule but for most people living in the United States that’s true. 

Take advantage of the resources you have at your finger tips. Learn a new skill. Start a blog. Create an app. Learn a language. You have access to all the information you need. 

Don’t waste the opportunity you’ve been presented with. Go create something. 



It’s easy to see things at face value especially when our emotions are involved.

You’re in the moment. You’re upset. You’re instincts tell you to get upset. They tell you to fight back. Go against is feeling.

You have no idea what’s going on with the other person. 

For example, if you set up a meeting to go over your product and your potential client doesn’t show up it’s our tendency to get upset. ”

How could he not let me know he wasn’t going to able to meet me today?”, “What did I do to deserve this?”, “How could she be so unprofessional?”

All these thoughts will run through our head but you have no idea what happened. 

What if she had a family emergency? What if she was in some kind of accident? 

You never know what could have happened. It may be our initial feeling to get upset but we need to take a step back. 

Some people will forget about your meeting or decide to do something instead but that’s rare. In most cases they’ll at least say something to you. Let you know they have to reschedule. 

If they don’t, that usually means it was an emergency at the last minute. 

They respect you enough to schedule a meeting. If they don’t show up, don’t react. Remember they probably had something important come up and move on. 

If you’re starting to realize when you’ve gone off topic or you’ve been surfing the web instead of completing your work, pull yourself back to your main task.

Be aware when you’re distracted. Track it. Mark it down on a piece of paper. 

With the internet and technology at our fingertips, it’s incredibly easy to get distracted from the task at hand. 

If you really want to accomplish what you’ve set out for yourself you need to make sure you are dedicating focus to the task. There are several methods you can attempt. The method i hear the most is the pomodoro technique. 

The pomodoro technique is highly effective. You work on your project for only 25 minutes at a time. After the 25 minutes, you get a 5 minute break.  

During those 25 minutes you have no distractions. You put all your focus into that project. It’s effective for most people to get work done, especially if you’re easily distracted. It’s not a long time to focus. 

Try downloading an app like focus keeper to try your 25 minute intervals. It’s helpful for seeing how many 25 minute intervals you can accomplish in a day plus it’s free to use.

If you’re easily distracted make yourself aware when it happens most. Try to limit the activités that distract you the most.

Try the pomodoro technique when working. It won’t work for everyone, but you can always edit it to fit your style. It’s a great base to start with. 

You’ll still get distracted at first. You can avoid some major distractions by turning off your social media apps or completely deleting them from your phone. You get sucked into hours of scrolling through social networks. 

Try the pomodoro technique and if you’re still easily getting distracted you’ll have to figure out what your main distractions are. Once you’ve identified your main distractions, focus on eliminating those distractions.