The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
When your idea muscle is developed along with the other legs of the Daily Practice—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—you’ll have a better idea when you should shut things down. And you’ll know that you are shutting them down for the right reasons. At this point, you are “failing quickly” as opposed to self-sabotaging or fearing success or
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How do I Start Exercising the Idea Muscle? Take a waiter’s pad. Go to a local café. Maybe read an inspirational book for ten to twenty minutes. Then start writing down ideas. What ideas? Hold on a second. The key here is, write ten ideas.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Sell The Dream People can see what your product is right now. What they want to know is… the future. Will your product make them more money? Will it get them a promotion? Maybe even, will you hire them if they buy your product? When you get in the door, do not sell your product. People make a decision on your product in five seconds. Sell the dream
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We spend years building a garden. We plant the seeds. We tend the soil. We water the plants. But we are also the sun. The sun shines no matter what. It doesn’t care which flower blossoms. The sun is always there providing value every second of the day. Be the sun and you will create abundance.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
When you are in the Idea Machine, nothing can stop you. This is where abundance is. This is where seeds are planted. This is where you dip into other dimensions not yet created.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
PowerPoint will only distract from the main attraction: you.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of humankind.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Remember this phrase: “Get Paid, Get Laid, Lose Weight”—because those are the three things people will pay for.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
I think we’re meant to often feel lonely and scared. It allows us to recalibrate where we are and ask the important question, is this what I’m supposed to be doing right now? When I am filled with fear is exactly the time when I want my idea muscle humming, when I must write those ten ideas a day down and become an Idea Machine.
James Altucher • The Choose Yourself Guide To Wealth
Try the following exercise: Come up with ten ideas you can write newsletters about. They don’t have to be in the above three categories.