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26 Nov
There's this idea in the startup world that you can build a business by scratching your own itch.

That's just survivorship bias.

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It's true that a lot of successful products are like that. But many many more personal itches are not marketable, or are extremely expensive to market.

I paid with blood and tears for my pivot away from @wujuapp. Not literal blood, but lots of literal tears.
It's hard to realize you can't get people to use, let alone pay, for your baby project.
Read 7 tweets
26 Nov
There's a secret society.

People who are paid well to work from home, and yet they do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

They binge TV shows, mindlessly scroll through Twitter, go to bed at 4am and wake up at 12pm.

And they feel ABSOLUTELY AWEFUL.

Are you one of them?

Read on.

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Every day you show up at the stand-up and report some vague progress you haven't achieved, you die inside a little more.

You've been thinking for weeks about coming clean to your boss, but you just can't. How can you face her? How can you admit to doing nothing for months?
You've drafted and deleted your resignation email several times already. Maybe you can still get it together?

You commit to get things done tomorrow.

But tomorrow comes and the enormity of what you need to do to catch up ... well ... it catches up.
Read 4 tweets
25 Nov
🔥 Build any consistent habit in just 7 days 🔥

Want to wake up early?
Write consistently?
Exercise daily?

The @softdiscipline method can help you do that and more.

We'll start small, adjust daily, stay accountable and treat ourselves with kindness.

Let's begin.

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1. Choose a habit

You may think you absolutely have to fix everything: your sleep, your study habits, your diet, your exercise regime.

You may want to start doing all those things tomorrow, but -
However behind, overweight, or sleep deprived you may be, tackling everything all at once will only cause you to burn out. Again.
Read 21 tweets
25 Nov
My wife @yaelfiner and I, we have a vision.

A vision of a life that doesn't depend on someone else's handouts or a daily 9-5 grind.

Here's how it's going so far.

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We want to build a life where our work is the best expression of who we are, where family, parenting, work and a loving relationship are intertwined into a whole greater than it's parts. A life of freedom, joy and passion, and yes - affluence.
I'm 41 years old and @yaelfiner is 40.

We've got a 7 y/o son and an 18 months old daughter, and about CAD $4600 monthly expenses on an average month with no income.
Read 18 tweets
23 Nov
Every habit you build should be a daily habit.

Why?

1) Daily habits improve faster
2) Daily habits compound better
3) Daily habits require less discipline

Let's break this down.

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1) Daily habits improve faster

To make a habit truly sustainable over a long period of time, you need to refine it over a few iterations.

It needs to match your energy levels, your circumstances and your unique style.
Your first attempt (e.g. wake up a 6am, go for a 5km run and do a 30 minute strength workout for an exercise habit) will likely fail spectacularly.
Read 10 tweets
20 Jan
May I be blunt for a moment here?

We treat depression like this horrible disease that's very difficult to treat, requiring a combination of therapy, medication, meditation and God knows what else.

It's not. It's actually pretty simple.
You start with an emotion, say anger. And you realize (usually as a kid) that's it's not OK to feel it. Everyone tells you so. So you shove it out of the way, where it festers all the while leaving you convinced you don't ever actually feel anger.
Then you grow up and that festering ball of anger grows inside you, consuming ever more bits of your soul to feed itself. At some point you realize you don't feel anything anymore. You're a dead man (or woman) walking.
Read 16 tweets

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