Skill is the safest hedge.

Speculation is exhilarating, skill building is not.

Building a skill is time-intensive, with slow feedback loops that pay dividends months/years/decades in the future.
As platforms gamify absolutely everything, it's hard to not feel like you're getting left behind by unplugging and learning something useful.

Unintuitive as it feels, the unrealized gains you build "offline" become your edge when you return to the game.
Your advantage exists to the extent you can resist the distractions that are preventing everyone else from making progress.

Delayed gratification on steroids.

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3 Jan
Why promoting yourself/your business/your ideas feels uncomfortable:

You must repeat things that are obvious to you until they become obvious to others.
This is why most people hire marketers or outsource the amplification of their message.

The problem with that is no one is an invested as you are, and no one knows your message like you do.
And why those who break through their discomfort reach an escape velocity that eludes most.
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10 ideas that changed my life: (thread)

Illustrations by @visualizevalue
1/ Get more done by doing less.
2/ You can't get better unless you get started.
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$86,701

The amount you've donated to food banks, children's hospitals, clean water, emergency services, medical supplies, homeless shelters and many other worthy causes in the last 48 hours.

Inspired by your generosity.

Let's see if we can get to six figures by 2021.
$90,288
~$10k in six hours. It can be done.
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Hindsight in 2020: (10 thoughts)
Relationships > everything:

My relationship with @celiapreihs is the foundation of all the good things in my life, and has amplified the quality of hundreds of relationships with people I've got to know and learn from this year.
Shiny objects make us duller:

The grass is always greener until you're standing on it. "No" is still the highest ROI word in my vocabulary.
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End of year special:

Make a donation to the charity of your choice by Jan 1 in the dollar amount of any Visualize Value product and the product is yours:

$197 - How to VV
$297 - Build Once, Sell Twice
$397 - Training Bundle

Forward receipts to hello@visualizevalue.com

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$49 - Permissionless Apprentice
$19 - Daily Manifest
And we’re off:

$500 to a local food bank to kick off proceedings
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