
Choose Yourself!

He once said, “You must first be the change you want to see in this World.”
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
One way to think about it is with the image of the circle: I want you to take out a pen and a piece of paper and do something for me. Draw a little circle. Put what you do in that circle. If you’re a secretary, put “secretary.” If you’re an artist, put “artist.” If you are a mother, put “mother.” Put the thing that is central to your life. If you a
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backward thinking, thinking thinking THINKING until… burnout.
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what?
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
So you need to tame the wild horse or it will tame you until you are a slave. Nobody wants that. The way you tame it is through focused use. Set a goal: I’m going to come up with ten ways I can have more time for myself. Or I’m going to come up with ten ways I can make my job better. Or ten business ideas. Make sure the list you plan to do is a har
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To ask people for their seats went against everything they had ever been taught.
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
You don’t wake up and say, “I’m going to do whatever it takes to make a lot of money.” You wake up and you say, “I have a big problem. And a lot of people have the same problem. And nobody is going to solve this problem except for me.”
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
Rule #7: Customer Service.