Those ingredients don’t look any special until a master chef uses them.
The bodybuilder will figure out how to use few weights and still get jacked.
The entrepreneur can bootstrap his company.
These people will find a way, no matter how many ingredients, weights, money, or resources are given.
For it was never about resources, but about being resourceful.
So next time we start complaining, let’s remember:
Someone took our exact same resources/situation and won with it.
Don’t play with matches
Be careful with knives
They can hurt you
Wound you
Stop you from living a full life
Often times, we are so worried about getting hurt/feeling pain
That we don’t:
Play with that skateboard
Move to that city
Take that job
Date that friend
We refuse these “risks” all in the name of pain.
We rather stay comfortable.
But we were not made for comfort, we were made for greatness.
We need to take those leaps, make the jump, and go for it.
For it’s better to die on the battlefield
Than in a closed room alone
What Will Other People Think?
This acronym is a killer.
We hear it all the time, particularly from likes of business CEOs like Gary Vaynerchuk.
We can’t let others dictate our life, our dreams, and our ambitions.
We can’t let others’ opinions drown out our own inner voice.
We can’t let them stop us from doing what we love.
But like everything, there are two sides to the coin.
Just as we can’t let others stop us from executing/going for it, so can we learn from asking the question:
WWOPT – What Will Other People Think?
What will they think about our product?
What will they think about our service?
What will our competitors think? How will they respond?
It’s also a good way to measure the ethics/morals of our decisions.
What will other people think if all our actions were on the front page of the newspaper/internet?
How would our actions change if this were the case?
How can we use WWOPT to our advantage in our business and personal life?
When we were looking down, they were looking up
When we turned left, they went right
When we stopped, they moved
When we ran, they walked
When we biked, they swam
When we took the train, they rode the bus
When we talked, they thought
When we thought, they were doing
We are the majority.
They are the exceptions.
These exceptions are those that do not heed “normal” advice.
They don’t break the rules.
They just don’t see any.
They do what others believe they can’t.
They swam towards the current
Ran towards the fire
Marched towards the field of battle
And it is because of this, that we (the majority) admire them.
Because they change things.
Not just for themselves.
But for everyone.
What’s the ROI?
This is one of the most common questions asked in business.
The answer?
It depends.
Typically, ROI (Return on Investment) is defined as the additional return/value received for a action/project after a specified period of time.
The last part is the catch.
How do you label the specified time period?
Often times, there is no definitive period.
No knowing, when, if at all, we will see a return.
We are all using measuring, calculating, pondering, strategizing, estimating, debating, predicting, wondering…
Hoping that the seed we planted will grow into a large and fruitful tree.
But we can’t force it.
We can continue to put in the work and water the ground around it.
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