Personal MBA
I have a rule called the "Rule of 100" for getting your first customers, and it really works…You need to do 100 outreach attempts every day, spend $100 on ads daily, or work on content for 100 minutes each day and post it… You stick to this plan for 100 days. I promise if you do this, you'll get a customer.
Aim to make 100 genuine outreach attempts
... See moreMany of the most valuable skills aren’t cutting-edge; instead, they involve being highly skilled with a commonly used tool.
scotthyoung.com • Learning as investing: 7 skills that pay off in any job
“Most people, especially highly gifted people, do not really know where they belong until they are well past their mid-twenties. By that time, however, they should know the answers to the three questions: What are my strengths? How do I perform? and, What are my values? And then they can and should decide where they belong.
Successful careers are no
... See morePeter Drucker, Managing Oneself
Simplicity is velocity.
• 1 Specific Problem
• 1 Specific Person
• 1 Specific Way
The way you maximize Units in your 1-person business is by reducing the number of “different” things you have for sale, and the different types of people you help.
... See moreIn other words, today’s cloud and mobile companies — Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Google — may very well be the GM, Ford, and Chrysler of the 21st century. The beginning era of technology, where new challengers were started every year, has come to an end; however, that does not mean the impact of technology is somehow diminished: it in fact means
... See morePretend The-All-Knowing-Writer-Gods said, “If you reach 10,000 hours of ‘getting good’ at writing and 10,000 hours of ‘getting good at monetizing your writing,’ you will make millions of dollars. Guaranteed.” Pretend the outcome is fixed, objective, and measurable. Then, it’s just hours. Things like talent and creativity are irrelevant. (You can de
If you want to improve something, invest 20% of your time identifying the bottleneck, then redirect all of your attention to removing it
On top of that, these are the only two metrics that you can “improve” in your business → either making customers worth more or reducing the cost to acquire them. You should be able to tie every project on your list directly to the improvement of one of these metrics.
Figure out what is your core required achievement at this point in time — writing, building a data set, whatever — and do it first thing in the day no matter what.