Second Round on the Roll

My literature teacher in high school never believed I would ever do two written assignments back to back without failing at least one. If she could only see me now…

…She would probably still not care. 🥲

Quote 1:

“Champions behave like champions before they are champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.”

- Bill Walsh (legendary American football coach and executive)

We live in a society that glorifies triumph and hypes up the ultimate end game - success and wealth. However, the most important puzzle of one’s success often ends up being overlooked. That being the long and usually lonely way performers have to take and fight through.

Would you like to be a champion in your perspective area of work and expertise? Then, act like a champion. Think about what other champions in your field are doing and copy them. There is nothing wrong with copying and learning from people you admire. In the end, learning is the key to being alive. Why take the key to your happiness away?

Quote 2:

“Markets matter the most.” 

- David Senra (founder of Founders the podcast)

There are many people with amazing ideas, but they are just too early or just too late to show their full potential. In other words, don’t be Hiroshi Ueda, a Japanese inventor who created the selfie stick in 1983 before smartphones (or cell phones in general) were just a dream. To make the whole story even more tragic, he ended up not extending the patent and someone else took it right after. The market was finally ready for this invention in the 2010s, but Mr. Ueda was out of the picture by that point.

The moral of the story is to make sure to be aware of the times that you live in and the needs of the society you are a part of. Trends come and go. If you are not a part of them, you are swimming against the current. This is also completely ok to do, but be aware of it. So choose wisely.

Quote 3:

“Remember, there is no such possibility as something for nothing.“

- Napoleon Hill (American self-help author and motivational speaker)

If you are the reader of this newsletter, you probably want to achieve greatness or better your life in different ways. That being said when we ask ourselves what we are willing to give up and what we are ready to do to achieve what we want usually not enough comes up. We all know what we should do, but the doing part ends up usually missing.

Thinking about it as a simple math, to have something on the other side of the equation, you need to have an equal or greater amount of effort coming into it. It is just the math of life. Follow this simple equation above and you will achieve almost anything you have your eyes on.

Keep it going babes!

Love you, Igor