There’s a concept that many self-made men call “the dark years.” I think I’m getting the first-hand experience of what that means... It was a rough day yesterday. Started at 6 am and finished at midnight, I was literally giving email-direction till 11.57pm. I felt drained, and frustrated, and pissed off. If that “son of a *****” client could have their ***** together, … [Read more...]
Crushing your reality and an early X-mas gift
I’ve recently returned from a reality-crushing week in Tenerife that made me realize a peculiar secret... Canary islands could indeed be a little piece of paradise. Where most of the world known to me is covered in snow and dark, I got to swim and sunbathe on 23 degrees. Instead of waking up to an alarm, I got to do my own schedule. I got to combine hanging out with an … [Read more...]
Inspirational People You Need to Stalk – Neil Patel
It’s the 58th minute of the 90 or so minute interview with Neil Patel, and I’ve paused it and started cursing for the 4th time in a row. “Fuck, how does that guy just find solutions to these complex questions so quickly? It’s insane!" Enter Neil Patel, a skinny nerd dating models and making it rain whenever he choses to. If things like having a private driver (and a car) for … [Read more...]
It’s Hard to be Honest
It’s hard to be honest. It’s probably the hardest thing that you can ever do. Brutally honest. Not to the people around you, well, that too, but to yourself. I watched the first 16min of Chase Jarvis interviewing Seth Godin. And minute after minute, Seth Godin blew my mind. And as I was being honest to myself, he blew my ego out as well. The understanding needed 15min to … [Read more...]
Farts, Blogging and Shit Sandwiches
Everybody wants to have their own business nowadays. And that’s good, it’s dope, I believe it’s a long-needed paradigm shift. But what not everybody is willing to do is to go through the shitty starting-out period. Or as Mark Manson puts it, you gotta eat shit sandwiches. The trick is to eat shit sandwiches that you like. Blogging is one of the easy solutions.The good … [Read more...]