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The Self-Serving Bias
You’re probably familiar with self-serving bias, even if you don’t know it by name. A self-serving bias is the common habit of a person taking credit for positive events or outcomes but blaming outside factors for negative events. Just from reading that, you can probably picture a friend who has this problem. Maybe you are the friend who blames everything bad that happens on someone else but loves to suck up the credit for all the good outcomes.
You Are Given $24 A Day
You are intrinsically given $24 a day to spend wherever you like, and depending on where you spend that $24 will determine the direction that your life goes in. You automatically spend $8 of it on sleep, which only leaves you with $16 leftover, so you have the choice to spend those $16 however you like.
You Have To Go 1 Step Back To Go 2 Steps Forward
This is a weird one; it sounds very contradictory, although there's an important lesson behind it. The most dangerous place to be in life isn't at rock bottom; it isn't reaping off success; it's slap bang in the middle. The most dangerous position to be in in life is average—not the best, but not uncomfortable enough to want to change.
Bring On Boredom
We naturally avoid boredom at all costs because the thought of doing something is better than the thought of doing nothing at all. People used to have to be creative to fight boredom, but now it’s almost too easy. To escape it, all we need to do is pick up a supercomputer in our pockets, and we can access anything.
How To Monetise The Skills You Already Have
Fundamentally, every skill that anyone has ever had is worthless, as the value of a skill is only what someone is willing to pay for it, and that very sentence will completely determine how much money you make in your lifetime. Skills and the quality of them are what make up a person; they make a career, a passion, a hobby, or a gift, and therefore, it is crucially important that you nail how to develop the right skills and sell them at market value because every skill holds a different value in a different sector.
Use Leverage To Propel You Forward
Leverage is the idea of using something that already exists to your advantage to further your own cause. A common case of leverage in business is with a marketing agency. Someone may have the skills of social media marketing but no product or service to sell in order to utilise their skills, which means they have two options. Either they build their own product or service, or they find an already existing one and use their skills to market it.
The Path To Your First $10k
You will end up making $10k a month quicker if you stop trying to make $10k a month so quickly. I know what you’re thinking; get me off this email as quickly as possible. But wait, the reason is because you don’t have the skills to make $10k a month when starting off, how would you? However, you probably have the ones needed to make your first $100 a month, so start by focusing on how you can make your first $100, and from there, you can creep your way up the ranks.
Get Rid Of Your Plan B
We are all told the same thing along the lines of, Don’t put all your eggs in one basket; make sure you have options and backup plans on backup plans. INCASE things go wrong! But what if you were told that having all of your eggs in different baskets, having multiple backup plans, and having options A,B,C,D,E,F... was actually a negative thing that was holding you back from achieving your original option A?
Do This For The Next 107 Days
2024 is now a matter of 107 days away, which equates to 3 and a half months, and if you feel like you’ve wasted the time so far, you probably have, but that doesn’t mean you should give up. You can do a lot in the next 107 days that could change the trajectory of your life. Here are a few things that will help you make a start on that.
3 Mindset Shifts To Unlock 2.0 You
The first one is the unwavering belief in your own success. You need to believe in yourself and your potential so much that it almost becomes like a mental illness because that’s what being an ambitious person is all about: having such a belief in your own abilities when no one else does and with no real proof to back up your thoughts. No outside noise or comment should faze you, because if it does and you’re easily tilted by the thoughts of others, then you’re not in control of your decisions; someone else is, and at the end of the day, it should only be you vs. you.