Your 1st try will be messy. Your 10th try will be rough. Your 50th try will be decent. Your 100th try will be great. Trust the process.

Every day, you have 2 choices: 1. To be someone's audience. 2. To be someone's thought leader. The time cost is identical. The life reward is not.

Social platforms are like attention vaults. You'll never win by only storing them. You need to start stealing attention. How? By creating value content. Become an attention heister.

Perfection is the enemy of growth. Action is the ultimate ally of growth. Why? Life rewards the imperfect doer. Not the perfect planner.

Day 1: Invincible growth Day 30: Noticeable growth Day 90: Visible growth Day 180: Remarkable growth The only variable: Do you keep going?

2 types of stories to choose: • Working on your own dreams • Working on someone else's dreams The same amount of pages. The same amount of hours. Completely different endings.

Reflecting is an undervalued supertool. Without it, you never know if you're on track. You can waste years pursuing wrong things. Cuz you don't spend 30 mins/week reflecting. Have time to reflect instead of always doing.

Your calendar is a mirror. Not of who you are. But of who you'll become. Fill it with random activities—you'll suffer. Fill it with growth activities—you'll prosper.

While you scroll through their success. Someone scrolls through yours. Oh wait. that's not true yet. Cuz you haven't started. Start doing. Today.

Time flows on one direction. Attention scatters in all directions. Successful people force both to flow toward what matters most.

2 types of tired: Tired from watching others win. Tired from working on your wins. Both take all day. Only one builds your future.

Every time you switch tasks. Your brain needs 23 mins to refocus. Yet mfs check their phone every 4 mins. Never focused on getting things done. Go phone-free for 3 hours and do the work.

2 accounts in life: Problems and Possibilities. Most dwell all day on their problems. Then wonder why possibilities don't exist. You get what you focus your energy on.

Watch others succeed: 24 hours. Build your own success: 24 hours. Same price in time, different rewards.

You can't create more time. But you can waste less time. You can't expand attention. But you can focus your attention. Choose wisely.

Netflix won't remember you. Instagram won't care for you. TikTok won't bat their eyes on you. But your dreams? They're waiting for you. Ditch distractions. Start building your legacy.

In the game of value creation: Victory = you win Defeat = you learn Either victory or defeat, you're better off. You only lose in 1 condition: Doing nothing.

2022: Afraid to write online + dunno how 2023: Try writing online, 2 months in, quit 2024: Still dunno how, restarted, and say "f*ck this I'll figure things out" 9 months in, wish I could start sooner. Moral of the story? Start doing TODAY.

You don't need fancy tecg to be productive. You don't need fancy setup to be productive. You need focus and solitude to be productive.