Tough pill to swallow: Your unhappiness is of your own making. Achieving some desired future state won't make you happy. That's an illusion. You need to simply choose happiness. Right NOW.

"You're always going against the grain." Yep. Because the first step to standing out is to stop doing what everyone else is doing.

It's literally insane that degrees cost tens of thousands of dollars per year. I've learned more from a year of watching YouTube (free) than I did getting both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Shit is so backwards.

Truth is asymptotic. You can get close to it, but you never quite reach it. The key is to get as close as you can. And this is best done by exposing yourself to different perspectives. As many as you can.

Sales tactics work until you get punched in the face. You can't plan out the whole interaction in advance and apply a tactic to each part of it. At a certain point, it comes back to how you are as a person. This is why doing inner work is so essential to succeeding in sales.

Random fitness hack: Do abs at the beginning of your workout. That way you don't skip them at the end when you're tired. After doing abs at the end for years, this completely changed the game for me.

Observe people Observe animals Observe plants Observe your body Observe your breath Observe your mind Just observe. To observe is to be in the eternal NOW.

The best way to get better at sales? Get better as a person. The personal development work you do directly translates to how you show up for your prospects and clients.

Trust is the ultimate currency in sales. Your success is just a matter of where prospects put you on their trust spectrum.

Outreach isn't that hard. Propose a problem. Offer a solution to the problem. Provide social proof. End with a call to action. We make it more complex than it needs to be.

Be a human in your outreach. Humans connect with other humans. Not robots.

The greatest sellers I know? They help other sellers. Giving back is the most powerful form of of fulfillment.

Stop viewing everything as win/lose. Life is an infinite game. The goal is to keep playing.

The only thing standing between you and everything you want? Your development as a person.

It's better to lose sales ethically than win them unethically. And here's a hard truth: Those who don't think the same way shouldn't be selling.

“Sales success comes after you stretch yourself past your limits on a daily basis.” – Omar Periu

Hot take: If you're high status and make lots of money but you neglect your relationships and your health, you are NOT successful. You are terribly misguided.

The best way to build meaningful relationships? GIVE to the other person. Not because you'll get anything back. But because the giving IS the getting.

Prospecting is hard. Booking meetings is hard. But do you know what makes it even harder? Trying to be someone you're not. You will ALWAYS have more success the more authentic you are.