009: How much live and work

Be brave, not vague.

This is not about work-life balance. It is about how much you should engage into the actual things that happen in the world (apart from business and economics) and how much to focus on working on your things.

Maybe your business is about helping people with their actual problems? I do not mean luxury problems like food delivery because you are too lazy to get ouf of your house and walk a few minutes.

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008: No date no goal

A goal with no date is a headline

If you don’t put a date on your goal, what kind of goal is that? How do you make sure you don’t spend too long on accomplishing a goal? How do you make sure you are not unrealistic when you set a due date for a goal?

The only way you can find out is by setting an exact date of accomplishment for the goal in the first place. If you set a date you have an orientation, something you can alter during your execution towards the goal.

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007: Express gratitude

Express what you are grateful for, not how great you are

It is Saturday night. You are on a high. You are on top of the world. That is how you are feeling right now. A high is ecstatic and overwhelming. What to do with all those emotions and happiness?

You can contain the feeling to conserve it, or you can express it immediately and shout out loud what great person you are. The later might be true for you. I don’t doubt it. I’m convinced every person on the planet is great (in their inner core, only some like to show their ugly side too often too much).

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