Here are a few short thoughts this week.
Money
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The paradox of success:
The more you achieve, the more you realize it was always about the people at home
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Focusing on humans and real relationships is both the key and the future of your business. You’d do well to double down on that. Less digital, more physical. Still work online, that’s fine. But maybe host in-person events. Or seminars. Or retreats. Send physical things as gifts to customers. Send physical things to lost leads or old customers.
Health
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Strength is a product of strength. The point of life isn’t to avoid problems. The reason we go to the gym is to become someone strong enough to handle them. You don’t build a sailboat for calm waters.
-An excerpt from The Greatest Personal Trainer in the Universe (join the early interest list here)
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Exercise gets easier. Every day it gets a little easier. But you gotta do it every day. That’s the hard part
-Quote adapted from Bojack Horseman
Relationships
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“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.”
-John Green from The Fault in Our Stars
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-Jon
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