Before I quit trading, I framed the decision: I'm 43 yrs old. I can stay, make more $$, racing for 10 more years. Or I can leave now, while I have energy, reasonable health and less ageism against me to work towards something that I'm not in a race to get over. cont...

If you feel demotivated, do something smaller. Our subconscious usually knows more than we do.

🎨 The best way to see Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is to stare at the center of the spiral for 20 seconds and then look at the painting. RT when it works for you.

"Keep ignoring feedback and life will keep teaching you the same lesson." –James Clear

Side projects for income, day job for impact.

"Do I need to spend more time searching for better information or do I need to spend more time acting on the information I already have? Is the bottleneck strategy or execution?" – James Clear

i trained an ai chatbot on my childhood journal entries - so that i could engage in real-time dialogue with my "inner child" some reflections below:

"Start now. Optimize later. An imperfect start can always be improved, but obsessing over a perfect plan will never take you anywhere on its own." -James Clear

"10-year dreams. 5-minute actions. Where do I want to be in 10 years? What can I do in the next 5 minutes to contribute to that outcome?" – James Clear

"Just start. Start slow if you have to. Start small if you have to. Start privately if you have to. Just start."– James Clear

If your next move feels overwhelming, it's too big. Go smaller.

"Talent is rarely enough to assure victory and bad luck is rarely enough to guarantee defeat. Do they influence the outcome? Of course. But your response will always sway the final tally." – James Clear

The only way to get where you want to go is to start from where you are. Not where you want to be. Not where you think you should be. Not where you wish you were. Not where others think you should be. But where you are. It’s amazing how much we mess this up. We don’t have to.

"Life rewards action, not intelligence. Many brilliant people talk themselves out of getting started, and being smart doesn't help very much without the courage to act. You can't win if you're not in the game." - James Clear

Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. There’s your recipe.

"The imperfect project you actually complete is worth more than the perfect project you never finish." -James Clear

Calling all founders, freelancers, creators, and entrepreneurs in Edinburgh! I'm excited to announce that I'll be relaunching Rebel Meetups Edinburgh in partnership with dffrnt and Ash 🚀 at our first event on 14 August, a little under 3 weeks from now! Rebel Meetups

Solopreneurship 101: Don't quit your job and then start building your own business. Find 60 minutes daily to work on your business and use your job as investment capital. Almost always a smarter choice.

Naval Ravikant's latest podcast with Chris Williamson is mind-blowing. He revealed: • Why he deleted his calendar • Three decisions that determine 90% of your life's outcome • Why most anxiety comes from a problem few understand 10 insights that'll transform your life:

Every successful solopreneur I know spent their first few years doing things that didn't scale. You can't automate when you don't even know what works yet.