You’re more likely to stick to new year new me if you start now, rather than when society tells you to. It’s also best to go through the hardest part (holidays) up front, when you’re most motivated. If you can make it during the hard times, it means you can stick w it for good.

Record breaking outcomes take record breaking work. No one will understand and that’s okay. You’ll know. And you’re the only person whose respect you need to earn. You’re also the hardest person to earn respect from. You can’t bullshit you. So it counts double.

You can measure how successful someone will become by how quickly their personal records become their minimum standards.

Okay. Enough relax. No more fun. Dreams goals material success. Back to work. Blacked out for a second yesterday.

(This was actually about how it’s okay to not go home if you don’t want to. Not how going home is good or bad. It’s your time off. Do whatever you want. Including - not taking off.)

And never believe ANYTHING I say about holidays or family.

You can measure the strength of your love by what you're willing to give up to keep it.

The biggest risk to small businesses isn’t AI, the economy, or even running out of money, it’s that the founder just doesn’t wanna do it anymore. If you don’t like your life while you run your business, fix that before anything else because it’ll kill your business before

Better to have a friend for a season than no friends at all. Not everything has to be forever. Some things can be just for now, to get you through the winter.

Unplug. Relax. Savor. There will always be time to work. There’s not always time to be with family.

Everything you want is on the other side of difficulty, uncertainty and delay. Hard problems - that you don't know how to solve - on a timeline you aren't sure you're going to solve them in - all while being unsure if all this will have been for nothing.

No one can say anything meaner than you've already said to yourself.

If they don't have a bigger vision for your life than you do, haven't achieved what you want to accomplish, and don't have complete context over your life… you don't need to listen to their advice.

If you actually met everyone, you'd realize you don't want to be loved by them. "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer." - Rick Sanchez

Easiest way to get organized: decide to stop owning so much stuff.

Best $5000 you'll ever spend. Sound proof your entire office. Make it so quiet you can hear your heartbeat. If kids next to noise polution achieve consistently lower grades than those in quiet areas, no one is immune. Noise destroys.

Pro tip: If you're afraid to take the risk, write down in excruciating detail what you're actually afraid of having happen. Step by step what happens next when you fail. You'll often find it's not so bad when you spell it out. Fear exists in the vague, not the specific.

The worst trade you can make is one that you pick by default rather than decision. You don't have fun in your 20s, but you also don't build in your 20s. And so you end up with neither the memories nor the skills because you never committed to a path to achieve either.

The fastest way to make more money is to find a bigger problem to solve for someone with a bigger pocketbook to pay for it.

You should be willing to tolerate lack of experience not lack of intelligence.