A driven, smart, businessman I have been working with is doing exceptionally well. He’s increased revenue by over 60% in the last year largely due to one marketing stream. It’s awesome. I have been encouraging him to create a recurring revenue stream for over a year, but it hasn’t happened.
The law recently changed and he had some compliance work to do to stay operating, so he got it done.
One is a ‘should’, the other is a ‘must’.
We achieve our ‘musts’ and think about achieving our ‘shoulds.’
If his business wasn’t cranking, then the recurring revenue stream would have become a must.
But ‘should’ and ‘must’ are both in the mind, neither are actually real.
We turn a ‘should’ into a ‘must’ by upping the pain associated with something to make it intolerable.
And intolerable is all in the mind too.
It’s a choice.
One of the greatest lies we tell ourselves is that we’re falling behind. That someone else is ahead.
As a young man I associated strength with force; louder voices, sharper opinions, firm lines in the sand.
There’s a strange kind of pride we’ve developed in being exhausted. But even lions, the king of the jungle, rest.
I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't have ambition.
We sometimes believe strength means self-sufficiency — that being independent means being isolated.
We often try to outrun the storm, emotionally, physically, spiritually.
We’re entering an age where machines do our thinking before we’ve even had a chance to try.
In church the other day, the pastor gave a sermon that really stuck with me. He talked about two people.