The Critical Number: The Strategy that Facebook and Netflix Used to Stay Focused
When you’re running a business, it can feel as if there are a thousand tasks at any given moment.
You’re trying to grow revenue, but you’re stuck in the whirlwind of endless meetings and other people telling you what to do.
The problem is every team member has their own priorities. It can feel like you’re trying to row the boat forward, but everyone’s paddling in a different direction.
The 6 Best Tools to Discover Business Trends in 2020
“You know it’s time to sell when shoeshine boys give you stock tips”
This is a famous quote in the stock market. It means when everyone’s talking about a subject; then it becomes too popular for its own good.
I knew I should’ve sold Crypto when my uber drivers and barber started talking about their portfolio. Everything crashed a week later!
The Productivity Flywheel: a System For You to Exponentially Get More Done
Everyone has the same 24 hours in a day, but we all have different results in life.
This imbalance fascinated me growing up.
I remember everyone telling me that hard work was the secret to success. But my mom worked two jobs when I was growing up, and we didn’t grow up rich.
Want to Get Rich Quickly? Here are Your Frameworks
For the past several years, it seems like every week I get a question from someone asking “how to get rich quick.”
“How can I be a millionaire within the next two years.”
or
You’ll see these guys in affiliate forums declaring that they want to make $10,000 a day within a few months.
Measuring Vanity Metrics vs. True Progress in a Business
How do you tell if someone is wealthy or not?
When I was growing up, my framework was the same as everyone else’s. If a family lived in a nice home, drove fancy cars, and went on exotic vacations, then they were rich.
But then a few things happened that changed my perspective.
The 20-Minute Game Plan: How to Create an Affiliate Campaign Canvas
I remember taking a class once in university where we had to learn how to create a “business plan.”
The professor gave us a fictional business idea and we had to theorize what the next few years would look like.
5 Clever Ways to Come Up With a Name for a Company or Product
Here’s one of the most powerful things I’ve learned about marketing: people make most of their purchases based off of the identity that they want to achieve.
Your “identity” is the image of yourself – it’s not who you actually are.
We all have an “Identity” that we’re trying to achieve, and an “Identity” that we want other people to see us as.
Reality: John is a 20-year-old, broke college student
The Decision Matrix: a Tool To Make Smarter Decisions (And Avoid Bad Ones)
“How much money would you have in your bank account if you could reverse the three dumbest financial decisions of your life?”
My heart sank as I started doing the math.
“Now think about what was going through your mind to come up with those decisions.”
Ah fuck…I’m an idiot.
The Costs of Being a Homeowner (And Why I’m Choosing to Rent)
What are the major milestones according to your family and society?
It probably goes along the line of:
You graduate from university.
You get a career.
You get married.
Some Things I’ve Changed My Mind About in Business
I was listening to a podcast the other day, and the host asked the guest an interesting question:
“What business beliefs did you strongly hold before, but you have since changed your mind about?”
This is a powerful question because shows how someone can adapt and evolve.
I always think it’s dumb when people brag about how they’ve “never changed.”
My core value in life is progress.
