The Nos don’t matter. You can hear a hundred no’s but one yes is all you need to change your life.
Month: December 2020
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Tools, Not Answers
My purpose in life is not to give you the answers, but to give you the tools.
You will make dozens of important decisions each week of your life, especially in your 20s and 30s. If you need someone else to make those decisions for you, you’ll be bottlenecked without the ability to move forward. What you need are the TOOLS to be able to make decisions yourself.
What I do, as your father, is to train you on the tools and how to make decisions independently.
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Brains AND Brawn
There’s a dangerous mentality that if you just put in the work and sacrifice enough then you will be successful. That’s absolutely necessary, but almost never sufficient.
If the willing to do the hard work and sacrifice is the “brawn,” then you also need “brains.” You have to be VERY smart about the moves make, why you make them, and how it sets you up for future success.
Brawn is not enough — you have to be really smart and make the right decisions along the way.
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Heartbreak
Heartbreak is a fact of life. There’s no way around it, and there’s no way to avoid it. Later in life, when you look back, it might actually be a good thing. You get to know yourself better, you learn from any mistakes you may have made, and you better learn/understand what you are looking for in a life partner.
You are going to live a long, LONG time. And the person you choose as your partner will either pull you down or push you higher than you ever thought possible. So the best move is to wait for the right person and never rush the process.