How do you get yourself charged if you’ve run out of energy? We never forget to charge our mobile phones, we’re always online on Facebook and social media but… What specific steps do you take to make sure your battery is always charged?
Because, your creativity, your resourcefulness, your relationships, your family, your sexual life, the ability to think outside the box, the ability to take right decisions, and the perception of you from all the outside world depends on your battery.
So, what is your charger? How do you get charged back?
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This guy’s net worth would be $660 bn in today’s money (yes, richer than Bezos).
I’m wondering then how “Keep Hustling” has got to become the new motto for success?
Anyone got an idea???
P.S. I’m not assessing this man’s ethics, how he made his fortune, etc. I’m only assessing his words per se.
P.P.S I don’t personally pair success with net worth but I mentioned net worth for those of you who do. I’m OK with that and I believe people use their money for different purposes.
How many times do you have this internal conversation with yourself?
It’s not gonna work…
Let’s try this for the beginning…
They will not answer…
They will not even look at my application…
I should start small, then target those…
I’m not there yet…
WHAT IF it works?
WHAT IF they answer?
WHAT IF you start big?
WHAT IF you’re there already???
Don’t land yourself down! Let life land you instead if that’s your destiny!
You just keep whatif-ing!
One by Tim Ferriss: It’s lonely at the top. Ninety-nine per cent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for ‘realistic’ goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming.
Everybody is after the small fish and the big fish are feeling lonely because no one is ready yet to catch them!! #lonelybigfish #poorbigfish 🙂
A magic recipe with particular steps x, y, z which will take us from 0 to 6 figures, from unhappy to happy, from 9-5 to successful entrepreneurs, from lonely to loved.
We are convinced that the formula is hidden in a New York Times bestseller, or in ONE course and if we follow the steps explained there in a holy manner we’ll get where we want to get.
We’re all looking for the secret formula.
A magic recipe with particular steps x, y, z which will take us from 0 to 6 figures, from unhappy to happy, from 9-5 to successful entrepreneurs, from lonely to loved.
We are convinced that the formula is hidden in a New York Times bestseller, or in ONE course and if we follow the steps explained there in a holy manner we’ll get where we want to get.
It doesn’t work like that and, thanks to God, it doesn’t, because otherwise, life would be so boring!
What separates those who succeed from those who fail is the ability to do things differently.
If there was ONE formula that everybody could follow to get success, the 9-5 problem or unhappiness would have been solved. We wouldn’t be having chats here on LinkedIn, bestsellers wouldn’t being written every single day, I wouldn’t be filming the video below, and no one would be talking about success stories because everybody would be a success!
Remember, you’re not the same person as the author who wrote that bestselling book on how to get success. You have different values, personality, interests, passions.
The author of the bestseller is a genius, that formula worked for him, he did it and helped others to do it but, still, that doesn’t mean that his formula will work for you.
Be OK with that and I promise you that when you stop looking for the secret recipe, you will get more curious, more open and you’ll see your secret formula surface from deep inside you. Because this is where it’s hidden.
I’m not saying “Don’t listen to the author of the book”! Get insights, try stuff but do also your own experiments, go crazy!
You’re a genius yourself and every genius in life will have to find his own way to his own truth.
When I coach people, million secret formulas are coming to my head. I want to help my clients and shout “Hey, try this, try that, that’s what you have to do!”. Still, I keep silent. I shut my mouth.
My role is to ask the right questions, the deep questions so the genius I’m coaching finds the answers themselves, the answers that nobody else has given before…
A friend asked me the following question on FB the other day. I thought the answer might be useful to others and decided to share it here on LD.
Question: What’s the key to making progress?
I’m not a guru. I don’t have all the answers. I’m just getting better every day, facing my fears, and aligning my course a tiny bit of an angle with my definition of meaning and purpose. Because that’s not easy. It takes courage.
So, my Answer:
I’d say this: there is a path of the least resistance for each one of us. That’s the path where we find meaning. You’ve got to choose that path at all costs and go all the way. You’re gonna face a ton of challenges but what will keep you there is that meaning.
The other thing is to find pleasure in helping others. All around say give, give value, but you have to find pleasure in giving value to others and solving their problems, spending your precious time for solving the problems of others without expecting anything back. That goes against our genes. We’re inherently selfish, we care about our own survival and existence and that’s OK of course to a certain extent. Giving value without expecting anything back takes practice. Lots of practice. And then it becomes addictive. You want it badly. And all of a sudden, just because you’ve provided value genuinely this time people give value back to you. And this is contagious. These people will do the same when interacting with other people. PS: I’m just learning and getting better. I’ve got a lot of work to do myself. This was just some realisations from my experience especially in the last 5 years since I quit my job in investment banking and went on to set up my business. The way towards mastery takes a whole life. 🙂
The power of this short poem by Constantine Cavafy is just unbelievable. This poem guides me.
The Satrapy – Constantine Cavafy
Too bad that, cut out as you are for grand and noble acts,
this unfair fate of yours never helps you out,
always prevents your success; that cheap habits
get in your way, pettiness, or indifference.
And how terrible the day you give in
(the day you let go and give in)
and take the road for Susa to find King Artaxerxes,
who, propitiously, gives you a place at his court
and offers you satrapies and things like that —
things you don’t want at all, though, in despair,
you accept them just the same.
You’re longing for something else, aching for other things:
praise from the Demos and the Sophists,
that hard-won, that priceless acclaim —
the Agora, the Theatre, the Crowns of Laurel.
You can’t get any of these from Artaxerxes,
you’ll never find any of these in
the satrapy, and without them,
what kind of life will you live?
My comments (talking to myself basically)
Dear Friend,
Don’t waste the gift of life that’s been given to you running after the ephemeral, superficial and flashy things.
You know what your heart is longing for and if you’re chasing other things because it’s easier or everybody else is doing so, that’s too bad.
Too bad for you, too bad for me, too bad for everyone. Because if you’re giving up on your purpose, you lose, I lose, we all lose!
And if you say that your purpose might take years or forever, let me tell you this. Life is much longer than you think and you will live to see your hard word give fruits, plenty of fruits, fruits which you will taste, I will taste, we will all taste.
Guys, please read this beautiful short poem, the Satrapy, by Constantine Cavafy, one of the most important figures of the Greek and Western poetry.
This poem is talking exactly about that, about being honest to one’s value, purpose and those hard-won noble things that your heart is longing for.
Listen to your suffering for it’s trying to teach you something.
You’re probably suffering because there is no meaning and purpose in the way you’ve chosen.
Viktor Frankl spent three years in Auschwitz and other concentration camps during WWII. In his book, Man’s Search for Meaning, he writes:
Even though conditions such as lack of sleep, insufficient food and various mental stresses may suggest that the inmates were bound to react in certain ways, in the final analysis, it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner-decision and not the result of camp influences alone. Fundamentally then, any man can, under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him – mentally and spiritually.
If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an eradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity – even under the most difficult circumstances – to add a deeper meaning to his life.
There is also purpose in life which is almost barren of both creation and enjoyment and which
admits of but one possibility of high moral behavior: namely, in man’s attitude to his existence, an
existence restricted by external forces.
“Don’t aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one’s surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it”
Excuse my exaggeration but these are the wisest words a human being has ever said in this world when it comes to habits:
“We often expect progress to be linear. At the very least, we hope it will come quickly. In reality, the results of our efforts are often delayed. It is not until months or years later that we realize the true value of the previous work we have done. This can result in a ‘valley of disappointment’ where people feel discouraged after putting in weeks or months of hard work without experiencing any results. However, this work was not wasted. It was simply being stored. It is not until much later that the full value of previous efforts is revealed.”
