Life is a series of challenges, vicissitudes, situations, obstacles, problems and tribulations. Whatever would go wrong would eventually go wrong. The key is not to go wrong when things go wrong. You might have lost your way, a friend, sibling or family member to death, getting divorced, getting fired from your job, or trying to survive the harsh economic weather, everything might look gloomy, and you don’t see the end in sight. Don’t Give Up Yet. Novelist H. G. Wells asked, “What on earth would a man do with himself if something didn’t stand in his way?” French Writer Victor Hugo observed, “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” Austrian American Scientist Albert Einstein quipped, “Adversity introduces a man to himself.”
“Becoming rich does not guarantee happiness. In fact, it is almost certain to impose the opposite condition—if not from the stresses and strains of protecting wealth, then from the guilt that inevitably accompanies its arrival.” – Felix Dennis, How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares His Secrets
I used to want to be rich until I found out the real difference between being wealthy and rich. Wealthy people are able to do what they want, when and how they want it – Freedom but most rich people are tied into obligations and responsibilities of trying to amass more riches – they have the money but don’t have the freedom to live life on their terms. Freedom is what we are all looking for but we make choices every day that are either taking us closer or farther from becoming free. Most of us are so poor that the only thing we have is money. Actor and comedian Jim Carrey put it this way: “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.”
“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” – Jim Carrey
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. – Wayne Dyer
When asked How am I? I usually reply with “It is the best time to be alive” 9 out of 10 times. I respond with this statement not because I am Pollyanna or I don’t have issues am dealing with; there is always a situation to contend with. Life is a rollercoaster of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, trials and tribulations, but you still have to keep it moving despite all the challenges and vicissitudes of life. It is easy to be optimistic and upbeat when things are going right; the real test is how you would handle the trying times. One needs to stay optimistic despite the challenges of life.
The road to success is not straight. There is a curve called Failure, a loop called confusion, speed bumps called Friends, red light called Enemies, caution lights called Family, You will have flat tires called Jobs, but if you have a spare called Determination, an engine called Perseverance, a driver called willpower, you will make it to a place called Success.
Optimism is an inclination to put the most favourable construction upon actions and events or to anticipate the best possible outcome. Optimism is from French optimisme, from Latin optimum, which means ‘best thing’. It is the ability to see the best in every situation and make the best of the moment. An optimist sees the cup as half full, while a pessimist sees the cup as half empty.
“Optimistic people explain good events to themselves in terms of permanent causes: traits, abilities, always’s. Pessimists name transient causes: moods, effort, sometimes’s.”
American writer James Baldwin once said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” As the optimist creed states: “Promise yourself: Look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and to expect only the best. Wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile.”
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble
“Nobody deserves to be abused. The truth is, it is not your weaknesses that they target—it is your strengths.”
Abuse comes in different forms, such as physical, emotional, verbal, psychological etc. We stay in toxic relationships and affiliations because of the emotional blackmail of the abusers that has stronghold on the abused throughFear, Obligation and Guilt.Sometime abuse can be insidious and hard to spot especially when you are not aware of what it entails. Dr. George K. Simon Ph.D. wrote in his book, In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People 1:
“It may have short ears and it may have long ears; it may have a lot of hair and it may have no hair at all; it may be brown or it may be gray; but if it’s big and has tusks and a trunk, it’s always an elephant.”
Author Jim Rohn often said, ” The things that are easy to do are also easy not to do. That’s the difference between success and failure, between daydreams and ambitions. Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced daily, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated daily.” I believe Rohn is very right, as the seemingly boring and mundane things in our life that look simple are also the hardest to do. Reading a chapter of a book daily is easy, but it is hard to sit down and read it. Going to the gym for at least 30 minutes a day is easy, but it is hard because we don’t see the result immediately; hence, most of us give up on our fitness goals. It is easy to tell your family and friends you love them, but it is hard to do because you don’t want them to read the meaning of it.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
In The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness, authors Jeff Olson and John David Mann write about the simple daily disciplines required for success: They are usually simple but also hard to do.
The simple things that lead to success are all easy to do. But they’re also just as easy not to do.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain. – Vivian Greene
Life is a rollercoaster of ups and downs, failures and successes, trials and tribulations, peaks and valleys. No one has a problem-free life; it is not a matter of if but of when. Adversity introduces a man to himself, your true character shows up during trying times, and you also know who your true friends are during challenging moments. As American Baptist minister and activist Martin Luther King Jr once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Anyone can be calm when everything around them is going fine; the real test is when you must deal with life’s vicissitudes.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. – James Baldwin
In The Power of Your Potential: How to Break Through Your Limits, author John C. Maxwell identifies and examines the seventeen key capacities each of us possesses.
Energy Potential—Your Ability to Push On Physically
Emotional Potential—Your Ability to Manage Your Emotions
Thinking Potential—Your Ability to Think Effectively
People Potential—Your Ability to Build Relationships
Creative Potential—Your Ability to See Options and Find Answers
Production Potential—Your Ability to Accomplish Results
Leadership Potential—Your Ability to Lift and Lead Others
The ten choices
Responsibility Potential—Your Choice to Take Charge of Your Life
Character Potential—Your Choices Based on Good Values
Abundance Potential—Your Choice to Believe There Is More Than Enough
Discipline Potential—Your Choice to Focus Now and Follow Through
Intentionality Potential—Your Choice to Deliberately Pursue Significance
Attitude Potential—Your Choice to Be Positive Regardless of Circumstances
Risk Potential—Your Choice to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
Spiritual Potential—Your Choice to Strengthen Your Faith
Growth Potential—Your Choice to Focus on How Far You Can Go
Partnership Potential—Your Choice to Collaborate with Others
“AWARENESS + ABILITY + CHOICES = POTENTIAL”
If you are aware of yourself and your ability to improve, if you develop the abilities you already possess, and if you make the daily choices that help you improve, you will reach your full potential.
Caps You Can’t Remove
Birth caps: You had no control over where or when you were born, nor can you go back in time and change these things. You don’t get to choose your parents, birth order, siblings, or upbringing. Good or bad, you have to live with these circumstances and make the best of them. You cannot change your genetic makeup, your race, your bone structure, or your height.
Life caps: There are many things that happen to us in our lives that we cannot control. We suffer accidents or illnesses. We lose people we love. We discover that we don’t have the talent or ability to fulfill a dream. I call these “life caps.” We all have life-cap stories, some big, some small. We have our nicks and dents. Part of the process of fulfilling your purpose is becoming aware of the things you can’t change that limit you, so that you can direct your attention toward the things you can change to increase your capacity.
Caps You Can Remove
Caps That Others Put on Us
The first type of limitation comes from the caps that others put on us. People have put caps on you. You’re not even aware of some of them. But you don’t have to let others’ lack of belief define you. Be unwilling to surrender your potential to someone else. Be unwilling to allow others to put caps on you and define your potential. You’ve fought too hard to get where you are to let others control where you are going. Be open to the possibilities that are in you!
Caps We Put on Ourselves
LOOKING FOR APPROVAL FROM OTHERS
LIVING IN A LIMITING ENVIRONMENT
Too many people simply accept whatever environment they’re born into. They think it’s normal, and they start to believe they don’t have any other choices in life. When that happens, they’ve created a self-imposed cap on their life.”
HAVING FEW EXPANSIVE MODELS OF SUCCESS
If you wanted to, you could find plenty of reasons not to strive for your potential. Maintaining the status quo is easier. But that shouldn’t stop you. Trying to build your life without removing your limitations and increasing your potential is like building a car in a small shed and being unwilling to knock out the wall to get the car out on the road. Remove the limitations, and the world is open to you.
Energy Potential—Your Ability to Push On Physically
There are many capacities that we can increase, but there’s nothing we can do to expand time. The number of minutes in a day, days in a week, and weeks in a year are set. Even our time here on earth is fixed. Our days are numbered. That’s why we need to focus on our energy. That’s something we can influence. If we want to get more done and make a greater impact on the world, we need to increase our energy potential.
Focus your energy by using the three Rs to prioritize:
Requirement—what you have to do
Return—what you do well
Reward—what you love to do
Emotional Potential—Your Ability to Manage Your Emotions
Emotional potential is the ability to handle adversity, failure, criticism, change, and pressure in a positive way. All of these things create stress in our lives
• Most people do not see themselves as they really are.
• Many people don’t want to resolve their problems; they just want someone to listen to them talk.
• Some people are not emotionally strong, and as a result, they do not cope well with life’s difficulties.
Take responsibility for the things you can control:
• Attitude—you determine how you think or feel.
• Time—you determine how you spend time and who you spend it with.
• Priorities—you determine what is important in your life and how much time you give to these essentials.
• Passion—you identify what you love and what you were created to do.
• Potential—you determine where you commit yourself to grow.
3: Thinking Potential—Your Ability to Think Effectively
Become an Idea Digger
Becoming a better thinker means having the right mind-set. Two people can see the same things, go through the same experiences, have the same conversations, yet one walks away with a flurry of great thoughts and the other without a single new idea. To increase your thinking capacity, you need to become an idea digger. Always look for ideas and try to mine them.
“The difference between average thinkers and good thinkers is like the difference between ice cubes and icebergs. Ice cubes are small and short-lived. Icebergs are huge, and there is much more to them than meets the eye. Their potential is enormous.”
5: Creative Potential—Your Ability to See Options and Find Answers
WE BECOME MORE COMFORTABLE WITH OUR MISSES
If you throw a lot of ideas at the wall, some will stick and others won’t. And that’s good. You can’t succeed if you don’t try. And once you realize you’re no worse off for having tried and failed, it gives you confidence to keep trying.
Creative people fail, and the best fail often. They’re like children who try an idea before it’s formed, and if it doesn’t work, they move on to the next idea. And they keep moving on until they find one that works. If you want to be more creative, get used to missing the mark.
Responsibility Creates the Foundation for Your Success
The size of the opportunity determines the amount of responsibility required.
Opportunity is lost when responsibility is neglected.
Tomorrow’s opportunity is determined by yesterday’s responsibility
“The more responsibility people take, the more resilient they are likely to be. The less responsibility people take—for their actions, for their lives, for their happiness—the more likely it is that life will crush them. At the root of resilience is the willingness to take responsibility for results.”
The more you help other people, the more they usually want to help others. And that motivates you to help even more. That’s what I call the Abundance Paradox. The more you give, the more you have to give—and want to give.
Discipline Potential—Your Choice to Focus Now and Follow Through
Successful people are highly disciplined in doing their most important work. They are self-disciplined. They guide and encourage themselves to do the work they ought to do, not just the things they want to do. That’s what takes them from average to good, and from good to great. And that’s why the rewards in this world are usually reserved for those who are willing to do what the majority of people are unwilling to do.
Crowding Out Principle – Brian Tracy
If you spend all of your time on highly productive tasks, by the end of the day, you will have ‘crowded out’ all the unproductive activities that might have distracted you from your real work. On the other hand, if you spend your time on low value activities, those low value activities will crowd out the time that you need to complete the tasks that can make all the difference in your life. And the key to this attitude toward time and personal management is always self-discipline.
DON’T LOOK IN THE MIRROR
Take the focus off of yourself; you need to always keep in mind that life is not about you. You can’t worry about how you look to others. You can’t be afraid of looking bad.
DON’T COUNT LOSSES—INSTEAD, COUNT LESSONS
Instead of avoiding losses, learn from them. Ask, “What did I learn?” When you seek lessons more than you avoid losses, you become more comfortable with risk.
FOCUS LESS ON YOUR FEAR AND MORE ON YOUR DREAMS
When you focus on your dreams, your heart is 100 percent in.
All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
“Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day; while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day. It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. We do not fail overnight. Failure is the inevitable result of an accumulation of poor thinking and poor choices.” – Jim Rohn
“Good better best never let it rest until good is better and better is best” was my favourite nursery rhyme growing up. The rhyme is an ode to what it takes to be excellent in any endeavour: exercising, running a business or raising a family. Consistency is the key to achieving anything worthwhile, Success is never an accident, and failure is usually not a coincidence. As author, Jim Rohn often said, “Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day, while failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.” Greek philosopher Aristotle also echoed the same sentiment: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence then is not an act but a habit.
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”― Michelangelo Buonarroti
In his autobiography, Call Me Ted 1, Media Mogul Ted Turner, the founder of the Cable News Network (CNN), the first 24-hour cable news channel, writes about one of the most important lessons he learned from his father. His dad used to tell him: Son, you be sure to set your goals so high that you can’t possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. He writes:
Despite my father’s obvious ambition, it’s clear to me now that reaching new heights in business and material wealth actually could have undermined his mental state. He told me a memorable story on the subject. He was preparing to enter Duke University just as the Depression hit. His parents lost nearly everything and they struggled to tell him they could no longer afford his tuition.
At that young age he consoled his mother, saying, “Don’t worry, Mom. When I grow up, I’m going to work really hard and I’m going to be a success. I’m going to be a millionaire and I’m going to own a plantation and a yacht.
You can’t always be right, son, but you can always be on time
Given their circumstances at the time these were very lofty goals, but by the time he shared this story with me he had achieved all three. He said that having now checked off each of these goals, he was having a really tough time reevaluating things and coming up with a plan for the rest of his life.
“He then told me something I’ve never forgotten. He said,
“Son, you be sure to set your goals so high that you can’t possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way you’ll always have something ahead of you. I made the mistake of setting my goals too low and now I’m having a hard time coming up with new ones.”
HBOs documentary Weight of Gold2 explores the mental health challenges of Olympic athletes. The most successful and decorated Olympian of all time, Micheal Phelps, describes the struggle that most Olympians go through after achieving the goal they have pursued all their life. Phelps, who won 28 medals in his illustrious career with 23 of them gold, knows a lot about the roller coaster of post-winning depression. The documentary also features other Olympians such as Apolo Ohno, Steven Holcomb, Gracie Gold, Sasha Cohen, Katie Uhlaender, Lolo Jones, Jeremy Bloom, Bode Miller, David Boudia, and Jonathan Cheever.
According to Phelphs:
We’re lost. I think that’s where a lot of it really comes from is we’re just so lost because we spent four years grinding for that one moment. And now, we don’t know what the hell to do. I think it’s probably safe to say that a good 80% – maybe more – go through some kind of post-Olympic depression.
The Weight of Gold is an eye-opening documentary about what athletes must go through, the mental health issues and the need to seek help. These athletes spend a lot of time training to become Olympians; it eventually becomes their identity, and for most of them, without it they feel empty. As the documentary showed, some former Olympians committed suicide due to post-Olympic depression. They become obsessed, locked in and super-focused to get to their ultimate aim of becoming an Olympian. After achieving the goal, most of them don’t have a goal bigger to stretch for as they have dedicated a lot of time and energy to achieve their goal.
If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings, And never breathe a word about your loss:
Don’t limit yourself. Whether that’s in the area of pursuing equality, creative freedom, or whatever else that looks like for you, step into the roles that aren’t being filled. Oftentimes, our greatest creative challenges come from a place of inner change because we’re pushed, pulled, and stretched into shapes, corners, and directions we never thought we’d occupy. 3
It’s important to set lofty dreams in order to avoid outgrowing them because an ego is really just an overdressed insecurity.
Meditation
Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt – Guidance
When seeking answers in life, we often instinctively turn to others for guidance. We face a conundrum or a dilemma so we call on the advice of trusted allies. It is sensible to seek direction as we navigate questions of love, family or career. But ultimately it is our own experience, our own understanding that would show us the way. Each of us has innate wisdom, we just need to connect with it, when we sit in silence we quiet the chatter of our own thoughts and outside influences. And from the silence and stillness, wisdom has the opportunity to arise, we become more attuned to what is right for us.
Guidance can be helpful but remember that you are your own greatest teacher. As your practice deepens, learn to trust your internal source of wisdom.
So you have to be your own teacher and your own disciple, and there is no teacher outside, no saviour, no master; you yourself have to change, and therefore you have to learn to observe, to know yourself. This learning about yourself is a fascinating and joyous business. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Daily Jay with Jay Shetty – Dance Through Life
Man Plans GOD love: Besides our best effort to maintain control, our world is often messy and unpredictable. If you want to thrive, you need to learn to go with the flow.
Life is not a computer program with a predictable outcome every time you run it. Life is a dance that you got to stay open to hearing the beat, adjusting to the tempo of the universe and moving accordingly. Just like when you are dancing, you can’t linger on missteps; at some point, you may slip while trying to spin or accidentally bump into your partner which is merely a part of being alive.
Some of life’s greatest achievement requires a great deal of deliberate action.
Before the English rock band the Beatles broke up, they released their twelfth and final studio album titled Let It Be on 8 May 1970 and a documentary film of the same name was also released. One of the tracks on the album was named “Let It Be” which is about letting situations take their natural cause and moving on in life. The track is one of my favourite Beatles tracks of all time, as the message is very inspiring. Life is a roller coaster of ups and downs, frowns and smiles, peaks and valleys. When things go wrong, as they often do, having an attitude of radical acceptance to the impermanence of life is a great skill for building resilience and mental fortitude.
In our quest to please other people, we suppress our needs, feelings and desire in a bid to prioritize other people’s wants and desires. We people-please as a result of our early childhood programming by our parents, caregivers, teachers and early influencers. This early programming, conditioning and domestication makes most of us unable to say No, set healthy boundaries and stop performing for the people around us. We play different roles in different situations such as the role of being a family member, spouse, co-worker and neighbour. We people-please based on the individual we are dealing with or the authorities involved.
Boundaries define us. They define what is me and what is not me.
We tolerate and rationalize inappropriate and toxic behaviours from our closest family and friends, all in the name of avoiding conflict, pleasing people and an inability to set clear, healthy boundaries. Setting healthy boundaries can be extremely tough, especially when you have been raised to avoid conflict; people please and prioritize others over your needs. I am the first grandchild of both my paternal and maternal grandparents; this placed a lot of responsibility on my shoulders, especially if you were raised in a place like sub-Saharan Africa, where the extended family unit is highly regarded. It takes a village to raise a child is a proverb drummed into an African child’s ear from a very young age, and this worldview is part of the challenge. It is a great value system, but if one is not careful, one might be addicted to martyrdom or become pathologically altruistic.
We live in a world where what you say is more important than what you can do. A world that focuses on who, not what, telling but not showing, a world of influencers that do not influence, a world of business coaches without a business, a trainer who hardly goes to the gym, a writer that does not write and a runner that does not run.
Author John C. Maxwell shares a great analogy about the difference between a tour guide and a travel agent. The metaphor is great for showing that the leader is a practitioner, in the frontline, a doer, and ultimately shows and leads the way. In his book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You 1, John Maxwell observed:
Too many leaders are like bad travel agents. They send people places they have never been. Instead, they should be more like tour guides, taking people places they have gone and sharing the wisdom of their own experiences.
There are a lot of people in the world who are willing to give advice on things they’ve never experienced. They are like bad travel agents: they sell you an expensive ticket and say, “I hope you enjoy the trip.” Then you never see them again. In contrast, good leaders are like tour guides. They know the territory because they’ve made the trip before, and they do what they can to make the trip enjoyable and successful for everybody. 2
Leaders, by definition, are out front. They take new territory and others follow them. Great leaders don’t merely send others out. They lead the charge. They’re more like tour guides than travel agents. They see opportunities, prepare to move forward, and then say, “Follow me.” When you see someone who is able to see opportunities and is willing to take good risks, pay attention. You may be looking at a leader
Leaders are dealers in hope; they lead from the front, and they believe in showing, not telling.
Leadership builds up, not down. It is active, not passive, Leadership brings a smile, not a frown.
Leadership gives credit, not blame. It casts vision, not doubt, Leadership drives change, not same.
Leadership adds value, not clutter. It sees causes, not symptoms, Leadership ignites passion, not a sputter.
Leadership helps you swim, not drown. It is inspiring, not expiring, Leadership is a verb, not a noun.
Dreams are lovely. But they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.
In her 2014 Dartmouth Commencement Speech, American television producer and screenwriter Shonda Rhimes shared some great insights on becoming a doer.
So, Lesson One, I guess is: Ditch the dream and be a doer, not a dreamer. Maybe you know exactly what it is you dream of being, or maybe you’re paralyzed because you have no idea what your passion is. The truth is, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to know. You just have to keep moving forward. You just have to keep doing something, seizing the next opportunity, staying open to trying something new. It doesn’t have to fit your vision of the perfect job or the perfect life. Perfect is boring and dreams are not real. Just … do. So you think, “I wish I could travel.” Great. Sell your crappy car, buy a ticket to Bangkok, and go. Right now. I’m serious.
Lesson One: Ditch the Dream. Be a Do-er, Not a Dreamer.
You want to be a writer? A writer is someone who writes every day, so start writing. You don’t have a job? Get one. Any job. Don’t sit at home waiting for the magical opportunity. Who are you? Prince William? No. Get a job. Go to work. Do something until you can do something else.
I did not dream of being a TV writer. Never, not once when I was here in the hallowed halls of the Ivy League, did I say to myself, “Self, I want to write TV.”
You know what I wanted to be? I wanted to be Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. That was my dream. I blue sky’ed it like crazy. I dreamed and dreamed. And while I was dreaming, I was living in my sister’s basement. Dreamers often end up living in the basements of relatives, FYI. Anyway, there I was in that basement, and I was dreaming of being Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. And guess what? I couldn’t be Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, because Toni Morrison already had that job and she wasn’t interested in giving it up. So one day I was sitting in that basement and I read an article that said—it was in The New York Times—and it said it was harder to get into USC Film School than it was to get into Harvard Law School. And I thought I could dream about being Toni Morrison, or I could do.
At film school, I discovered an entirely new way of telling stories. A way that suited me. A way that brought me joy. A way that flipped this switch in my brain and changed the way I saw the world. Years later, I had dinner with Toni Morrison. All she wanted to talk about was Grey’s Anatomy. That never would have happened if I hadn’t stopped dreaming of becoming her and gotten busy becoming myself.
Meditation
Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt – Clarity
To develop clarity, you need to investigate your experiences constantly – use questions to get clear on what you are sensing, use curiosity and interest to explore what is actually happening inside you, and challenge yourself to perceive your body and breadth in more detail.
‘The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. – Eden Phillpotts
Daily Jay with Jay Shetty – Level Up
There is no high score list in the game that is your life; we mark progress by collecting a unique blend of abilities, experiences, relationships, and qualities. The real fun and the real victory come in each incremental step.
Podcast
20VC: The Rent the Runway Memo: How Paid Marketing & Growth Hacking Ruined a Generation of Companies, When Will Rent the Runway Be Profitable & How Does it Compare to Other Fashion Co’s and Why “I Wish I Ran My Startup Like a Public Company” |The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch
All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
In Be All You Can Be: A Challenge to Stretch Your God-Given Potential. Author John C. Maxwell shares strategies for stretching our God-given potential. The book contains lots of biblical references as a tool for teaching leadership principles.
