Choosing your priorities
There is a million things you could work on every day. How do you choose your priorities? How do you determine what is the right thing to make progress on?
Effort is not optional
Putting in the effort means that we need to try a lot. And trying looks ugly. Trying is not glorious. There is years of wanting and hoping and working when reward is uncertain.
Getting Started Changes Everything
Most of your plans are right out the window the second you are taking your plans into the real world. Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember: Getting started changes everything.
What can you eliminate from your life?
There is way more time and effort wasted on doing things that don't matter than on doing the things that matter inefficiently.
Consistency is the Gatekeeper
The art of patience and consistency really is about learning to stop obsessing over the end results. All we can ever do in the present moment is giving it our best.
On Finishing Things: Why the last 20% are the hardest
For me finishing important projects is hard. Most of us really only have 2-3 big projects per year that move the needle and actually make a difference. And those are the ones for me that are the hardest to finish.
The Benefits of Constraints
Constraints are frustrating. Why should we constrain ourselves?
Ask Who Not How
The only way to escape the time-for-money trap that many agencies and freelancers face, is to look for levers that maximize the impact of every hour that we put into the business.
Stealing from Comfort
It takes many hours to make what you want to make. The hours don’t suddenly appear. You have to steal them from comfort.
We Lack Clarity, Not Motivation
Sometimes in life we lose the motivation to follow through with our projects. Paralysis sets in. We question if we are on the right path and ponder on the pointlessness of it all.
