Raise the bar high RUN 4 FFWPU from Pexels.com Think about how you define winning. Would you rather come first or be the best you can be? Yes, you might try to cheat and say both but isn’t reaching your potential what really matters? When you give up an obsession with ranking, you can be
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Are you proud of all your content? Photo by Eye for Ebony on Unsplash My stomach churned the day after a call with a writer I admire. He was diversifying and had a challenge. Advisors told him he needed to go through everything he had created and check that he was happy for it to represent him.
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Live a life of continuous improvement Photo by Klara Kulikova on Unsplash Huge personal goals can be inspiring but utterly terrifying. I’ve been through the same dreaded cycle as you. Set a target, crash, fail, and repeat. It’s exhausting, right? Luckily, it doesn’t have to be this way. We can focus on small, incremental gains and lead the
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It’s nothing to do with money Created by the author — original image from Reynardo Etenia Wongso on Unsplash Who wouldn’t want to live a life where they are rich, passionate, talented, and changing the world? It sounds perfect, doesn’t it? Yet it’s unrealistic and not the only way to live a life of meaning. The Japanese have
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Let’s tackle toxic advice Created by the author — Original image from pexels Not all advice was created equal and some could be terrible for you. Don’t let it hold you back from living the life right for you. Without wasting any time, I hope you’ll nod your head along as you read. #1
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Give up notifications and statistics Created by the author — original image from Austin Distel on Unsplash Medium is different. It doesn’t need to psychologically manipulate you to make money off you. Evan Williams, the founder, has said explicitly he counts the total reading time as his metric of success. Medium wants you to spend more time reading and
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Let Tagore change your perspective Created by the author — original image from Wikimedia Commons It’s a tragedy more of us do not know the name, Rabindranath Tagore. He is a titan of South Asian art and philosophy and the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. His words have inspired many and form
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A practical 4-step guide with examples Photo by Alexis Brown on Unsplash The dilemma for writers like me isn’t idea generation, it’s how to convert the formless bundle of energy in our minds to the written word. I struggled with this a lot until I brought my day job to my writing. Anything you write must have structure even
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Being destructive does not help change anything Created by the author — original image from Pexels I’ve been angry a lot. In my superiority, I’ve been frustrated at those who think differently than me, and maybe you feel the same. The world feels like it’s getting angrier in the last few years. I smugly believed
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