success
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Confronting reality đź‘€
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2 min read
Goal setting is like game setting. You start at level 1 and graduate into unforeseen directions. If you’re lucky, you’ll ping-pong forward, making leaps and bounds. But more often than not, declaring your ambitions acts as a compass, guiding you with mere suggestions on how to proceed. Like a magnet, the lighthouse tugs you into its…
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Progress is a mindsetÂ
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1 min read
The fear of messing up (FOMU) is precisely what holds people back from getting what they want. But if you treat mistakes like an experiment, they become lessons in disguise and teach you how to tweak your approach. To err is human, they say. Maybe they should instead say that to err is to learn.…
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Success comes down to one word
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2 min read
LOVE. ❤️ Love yourself. Love others. Love thy neighbor. Love your job. Love to show love. In the biography The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Buffet offers this advice to students at Georgia Tech. “Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of…
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‘The most effective way to do it – is to do it’
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1 min read
The most effective way to do it – is to do it. — Amelia Earhart
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Aiming for the opposite
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1 min read
When we try to sink, we float. When we try to float, we sink. When we try too hard, we often meet burnout. When we take breaks, we re-energize and excel. When we get tired of hoping, we give up. When we accept what we have, we get what we want. Life is like trying…
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How to persist after hitting rock-bottom
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2 min read
We can toil in obscurity for years before we get a lucky break. We can also give up and accept that it isn’t meant to be. But something happens when we feel like a complete failure. We start to simplify everything — what we own, where what we do — and get back to basics.…