The way to get unstuck is to start down the wrong path, right now.
Speak up. Not just tomorrow, but every day.
We don’t become mediocre all at once, and we rarely do it on purpose.
You’re competing against people in a state of flow, people who are truly committed, people who care deeply about the outcome.
Don’t wait to be picked. Pick yourself.
It’s far easier to put your future into someone else’s hands than it is to slog your way forward, owning the results as you go.
Embracing the fear of freedom, deciding to determine your own path, this is the work of a grownup.
Here’s conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
Saying ‘no’ or even ‘stop’ is the hallmark of the professional you want on your team.
It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that’s the moment between you and remarkable.
Content marketing is the only marketing left.
Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
If you’re different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
The rest of the world isn’t nearly as important as the few who are here.
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
It’s entirely possible that there won’t be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That’s okay. At least you lived.
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.