A Powerful Passage from Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

To rise above the current and coming deep change, the single best move you can make is to “increase you.” By this I mean: …upgrade your core skills so you become even better at what you do. As you add more value to your customers and the market, you will be repaid with higher loyalty and greater prosperity. And become indispensable. …advance your personal growth work so you release the fear that keeps you restricted and turn it into the faith that inspires you to see the opportunities that...

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The best influencers (and elite athletes, artists and inventors) are boring. They are all about Mundanity: repeating the same few habits every single day (whether they feel like performing them or not) until these consistent practices incrementally morph into a tsunami of victory. Success lies in a masterful consistency around the fundamentals (please read that thrice). Don’t complicate things. Just repeat a few routines staggeringly well. I recall learning from the excellent documentary Tyso...

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To become a billionaire help a billion people lead greater lives. Income always follows impact. It’s been absolutely fascinating mentoring so many ultra-high-net-worth clients for the past two decades. I must share: they are not of a different universe than you nor do they possess talents you don’t have. Not at all. Many are actually fairly ordinary. And have come from hard backgrounds (sometimes this factor actually serves them well as they have something to prove to the world; which mak...

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The true reward for masterwork isn’t public appreciation but who you became in the process of creating the output. Too often we spend our best days running hard to chase an imaginary pot of gold on a far away horizon when the wealth we really need is already in our lives, right in front of us. …like rich connections with family. …like work that serves and causes you to grow. …like friends that stand with you in adversity. …like good books, great films and top music. …like sunrises, sunsets ...

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Mastery is a process, not an event. It’s so easy to be hypnotized by society into thinking that the superstars among us woke up one day rejoicing in their newfound heightened state of greatness. Pure myth. Study Da Vinci and Buffet, Beethoven and Serena Williams, Kobe and Nikola Tesla and you’ll see that their unusually excellent performance was caused by their uncommon devotion to a journey. ...Their genius was not natural but constructed. ...Their luminosity wasn’t inborn. It was made. ......

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The highest impact leaders all have one trait in common: they are extreme contrarians. They were seen by the majority as radicals, misfits and eccentrics. They saw what most see and thought what few think. They rejected the mass hypnosis and schooled brainwashing of society. That says that geniuses are cut from a different cloth, that your ethical ambitions should be suppressed and that your life needs to be reasonable. Makes me think of the words of George Bernard Shaw who wrote: “The reas...

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The superstars I work with are wizards of making things happen. The reality is that the majority moves slowly. It takes ages for them to complete a project and week upon week to get important things done. Zero judgment here. Just reporting. And this way of being is because most people are exhausted. And bored [so they have no raging fire to execute, in their souls]. The A-Players are diametrically different. They rise early, move swiftly and deliver beautifully. I’ve handcrafted an absolu...

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The key to becoming masterful at rising early lives in discovering how the pros sleep deeply. Rejuvenating sleep isn’t a luxury—it’s an absolute necessity. Science says you should sleep 7-8 hours a night for excellent health, strong productivity, and a long life. Anything less significantly increases all-cause mortality. [That just means you’ll probably die earlier]. That roughly means sleep at 10pm and awaken at 5AM. To win the battle of the bed. To put mind over mattress. To own your ...

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