10 Lessons I Learned This Week
Things I wrote down so that I wouldn’t forget
Quitting your worst habit will change your life faster than starting your best new habit. Meaning, stop the leak before you fill the bucket.
Speaking of buckets, if yours is leaking… painting it won’t help. Ask the hard question on what is on your to-do list.
In a world where AI is coming for our jobs and our lunch, your communication skills determine your compensation more than your technical skills ever will.
The fastest way to change your life: change what you do in the first hour after you wake up. If you do nothing else except engineer the “Perfect First Hour,” you will win.
Successful people love boring habits. They wake up the same time, work out consistently, and read daily. Excitement is overrated.
The fastest way to spot a successful person: watch how quickly they turn ideas into finished results. Speed plus completion is king.
Uncomfortable truth: Most of your friends won’t support you until strangers start to celebrate you.
Hot take: Every successful person is someone who got tired of their own bullshit before anyone else did. They became their own worst enemy first. Then their own best friend. Most people skip step one.
The older I get, the more I realize that poor people overthink small decisions and rush big ones. Rich people do the opposite.
The people who win long-term are the ones who can hold two truths at once: be proud of how far you’ve come and be honest about how far you still have to go.
If you had to add a #11 to this list, what would it be? Drop a comment or shoot me a reply to this email.
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One lesson I learned this week: my life is shaped not by what happens to me, but by the meaning I give to what happens. I have the power to decide how I respond, what story I tell myself, and who I become because of it. That choice is my ultimate power and I need to learn how to own it.