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@paraschopra I read somewhere that when you stop saying "I have to do this" vs just believing that I am the kind of who likes to (have a good sleep schedule, for instance), it gives you a sense of choice and not forced choice. Then making it easier to follow and reform ourselves.
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Create an environment where you can afford to ignore the whole world for a few hours every day, use that time to unapologetically invest in yourself and in what you do best, you will naturally attract more “luck” into your life.
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"Beside death, all failure is psychological" - Jocko
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8. "If you only think about the long term, you probably won’t get out of the short term because you’re going to miss the situations of today."
Long term talk means nothing if you miss today’s work. But short term wins will fade without a horizon to look towards.
Tracy Britt Cool learned this the hard way turning around Pampered Chef as CEO. After two years of progress, year three stalled because the team focused too much on future bets and not enough on today’s fundamentals.
They reset, tightened blocking and tackling, and earned the right to think far out again.
In this new episode, Tracy shows how to pick a real horizon, align the incentives to support it, and still hit this week’s numbers.
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish
32 highlights and takeaways from my research and conversation with Tracy Britt Cool. 1. Everything takes longer and is harder than you think. 2. Problems need to be solved at the right level. 3. The source of all bad decisions is blind spots. 4. It's not work if you love it. 5. Find people with energy, intelligence, and integrity. 6. The best are always learning. 7. The CEO job is very lonely. 8. "If you only think about the long term, you probably won’t get out of the short term because you’re going to miss the situations of today." 9. Structure creates outcomes. 10. If you're trying to attract talent to a losing team, focus on the value proposition to the employee. 11. "You don’t usually get payback on things as quickly as you think." 12. Culture is the foundational aspect of every business. 13. Hiring someone for $100K is a million-dollar capital allocation decision. 14. Avoid the people who hand-wave and go all over when you ask a simple question. 15. Everyone needs to know the key drivers of the business. 16. The best people are curious. 17. People can't copy discipline. 18. "The more leverage you put on the business, the more everything has to go well for the business to be able to service that." 19. Long-term thinking requires structure, not just intent. 20. If you're on slide 112, something is wrong. 21. The best candidates don't apply; you have to find them. 22. Think about your business as if it's your family's only asset and you can't sell it for 50 years. 23. You can't buy good people wanting to work with you; you have to earn it. 24. If you're not having fun four days out of five, it's not the right fit. 25. When leaders grow up in businesses, they gain depth but lose outside perspective. 26. “I am a better investor because I am a businessman, and a better businessman because I am no investor.” — Warren Buffett 27. You save time today, but lose time later when you hire the wrong person. 28. Capital is commoditized now. You create value through operating, not financial engineering. 29. Where's your people calendar? You need the same discipline for talent as for budgets. 30. Don't fight the trend. Skate where the puck is going. 31. Make sure you pass the newspaper test: "If this decision were on the front page, written by a fair, critical reporter your family would read, how would you feel?" 32. Asking WHEN changes everything.
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I felt a moment of pride yesterday when I looked at my Substack. Not because it has thousands of followers (it doesn't), but because it exists and I have a few published pieces on it.
In the initial few posts, I intentionally didn't add a "subscribe to me" button. I didn't care for it. I only wanted to hit publish. I wanted to build a space for me to write.
For many years now, I have wanted to be 'someone who writes well'. In hindsight, I realised that that goal was too big and too intimidating. 'Writes well' added a lot of pressure and kept me from writing.
A smaller, more achievable goal would've been to be 'someone who writes.' When I looked at my Substack yesterday, I felt closer to that identity that I have always wanted to embrace - of 'someone who writes'.
The 'writing well' part will be taken care of by the process and my intent. But for now, I am who I have always wanted to be. The act in itself caused a certain re-alignment within myself. The next step is to do it well. Which is easier to take now that I am doing the thing in the first place.
I hope this helps you pick up a personal project you have been stalling too.
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Why spirituality is not for the weak?
As long as you keep on listening to people around you or online or follow any guru, you can't be truly spiritual.
Spirituality means to have one's own eyes wide open to perceive reality as it is. Like Lord Shiva...
t.me/spiritualityfr…
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