John

“PRO TIP: Selling is helping. If you believe your product or service improves the lives of your customers, sales is just education. You’re helping people out. Reframing selling/asking as helping makes it exciting to offer your consulting or window-washing services or provide someone with delicious cookies. Once you accept that truth, asking becomes loads easier and feels much more like a communal gift than a selfish desire.”
― Noah Kagan, Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

“PRO TIP: Don’t base your happiness or your self-worth on being the smartest, the most successful, the richest. Being so focused on the end results sets you up for a major fall because there’s ALWAYS going to be someone who’s smarter, more successful, or richer—and every time you see that you’ve fallen short, it will eat away at your motivation. Defining yourself by the things you do each day (the process) will get you to where you want to be quicker and more joyfully than measuring yourself against others.”
― Noah Kagan, Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

“One reason we resist change is that keeping things the way they are requires almost no effort. This helps explain why we get complacent. It takes a lot of effort to build momentum but far less to maintain it. Once something becomes “good enough,” we can stop the effort and still get decent results. The inertia default leverages our desire to stay in our comfort zone, relying on old techniques or standards even when they’re no longer optimal.”
― Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results

“Children develop self-confidence when they learn simple skills like pulling up a zipper, tying their shoes, or riding a bike.”
― Shane Parrish, Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results