Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
RYAN HOLIDAYBad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
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Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
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We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
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What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
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The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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