Excuses are permission slips for failure we ask other people to sign.

spend your whole life chasing everything, and you'll end up with nothing. you can't have it all. life is a game of trade-offs. sacrifices. you need to decide what matters. ruthlessly prioritise it. and get comfortable saying no to everything else.

Expect more from yourself:

This always gets me: What are you so afraid of losing when nothing in this world belongs to you? -Marcus Aurelius

THIS:

the FIRST gold rush was from 1847 to 1855, and i think we’re LIVING in a new AI gold rush now. this time: – picks + shovels = prompts + AI agents – railroads = openai, aws, v0, X, stripe etc – gold = attention, data, distribution – land grabs = ai-first domains + keywords –

In the beginning, you’re fighting a wolf with a stick. Then you’re fighting a bear with a crew. By the end, you’re fighting a dragon with an army. As we progress, our problems don’t get easier, we just have more resources to solve them.

I think most rituals are a waste of time but having a locking in ritual I see as high return. Here’s mine: 1) Turn off everything. 2)?Get into the work as fast as possible and spend as little time as possible doing anything but that. Complete focus = doing nothing but the

Realest shit I ever heard: "People pray for the cake. Then God gives them the batter, eggs, oil, icing, a pan, an oven... but they get overwhelmed and leave the kitchen". Sometimes you'll have everything right in front of you, but you still don't take action. Let that sink in.

Keep showing up.

Your time -> your goals [🎞️ mindset.therapy]

"Passion" comes from the Latin “passio” which means "suffering" and "endurance." So people think that following your passion means doing something you love, when it really means finding something that you are willing to suffer for.

what consistency actually is:

The secret to getting what you want: Doing lots of things you don’t want first.

Everyone needs to hear this… The Donkey Principle: (a visual thread)

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Everything is hard. Nothing comes easy. It will take longer than you want it to. And you will give up more than you expected to get there. And in the end, you will have finished what you came here to do. And that will be enough.