Heroes use pain. Villains are used by it. Be the hero of your own story.

The ultimate form of self expression is business

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it... Life is long if you know how to use it.” — Seneca

How to not worry about money: 1 - Define a big goal. 3+ years. Dissect it. 2 - Allocate time so you spend energy on what moves the needle. 3 - Connect work to milestones of the goal + earning more p/h. 4 - Form a dopamine loop. Love the journey. 5 - Spend less than you earn.

If you don’t decide exactly what you’re going to do with your time in advance it will be decided for you. Live deliberately. You are the hero of your own story. Don’t be an NPC.

We evolved to control our own body weight. Climbing, squatting, crawling. The human body adapts to its environment. When we don’t do what we’ve evolved to do, we adapt in a way that goes against our evolution. Functioning as we’ve supposed to has become extra ordinary.

Personal excellence is the ultimate rebellion. The best step to fixing everything you don’t like about the world starts with self.

Creating value doesn’t have to come in the form of something physical. Knowledge is the currency of the 21st century. Instead of building another clothing brand, why not seek to solve a life problem? Our world needs its problems solved, not more ‘stuff’.

Truth is relative. Humans don’t possess the sensory organs to perceive everything in the universe. We’ll never be able to know everything. When frustration creeps in from someone else’s truth it can pay to keep fundamental science in mind. Smile. Don’t be too serious :)

Work life balance is more useful when conceptualised over a longer timeframe. Daily = living for 5pm. Weekly = living for the weekend. Monthly = living what matters. Quarterly = living to celebrate achievement. Annually = living a new identity. Longer term = bigger goal.

Anxiety is the best sign that your energy is being used in the wrong way. We’ve all got a purpose inside of us. When we’re moving towards that purpose, anxiety goes away.

Chase your thing. The thing you’ve been sitting on for years. The thing that screams out at you when you’re on a run. The thing you know you could bring to the world. The thing that will turn dream to reality. It might not work out. But it will send you where you need to go.

To read well is to live 1000 lives

To write well is to savour life

“Business is not about money, it’s about making dreams come true for others and for yourself” - Derek Sivers

No matter how successful we become, we can’t participate if we don’t show up.

Playing a well defined game is the meaning of life. We get the pick the game, along with how to win it. Everything that happens to us is how we learn to play it. Most seem to be playing a game written by someone else and they have no idea how to win.

“The only true measure of intelligence is that you get what you want out of life” - Naval

A guaranteed way to be unhappy is to be anything less than we can be. We all have a fire inside of us showing what is possible. Burning to show how we can leave the world better than we found it. Self actualisation is the only goal we need. Course correct along the way.

If you can’t be happy with a coffee, you won’t be happy with a Lambo.