Another Stuff 100

The first 100 are here.

  1. Pick the most important thing, do it, repeat.
  2. Work hard and be nice to people. Anthony Burrill.
  3. Champion the underdog.
  4. Are you listening, or waiting for your turn to speak? 
  5. It doesn’t matter how fast you move if it’s in a worthless direction. 
  6. You don’t need everyone on the planet to see you as highly valuable; you only need enough people who can drive your price up.
  7. For one week, try not to use the word ‘but’. See how conversations change. 
  8. Sometimes all that is required of us is sincerity, honesty, and humility.
  9. Seek art everywhere, in every corner of your life.
  10. Print some of those pictures off, let them live outside your phone.
  11. Most clutter is a result of indecision. Barry Fralick.
  12. Read what you love until you love to read.
  13. In the moment between stimulus and response, there is a space. Choose your response. Viktor Frankl 
  14. For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  15. There’s always a way out. Your job is to balance emotion, reason and logic.
  16. Choose not to be harmed and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been. Marcus Aurelius
  17. Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realise they were the big things. Robert Brault
  18. If you don’t schedule a break, your body will take one for you. And it won’t be at a convenient time.
  19. Perfection is boring. Getting better is where all the fun is.
  20. Perfection is a myth. Make a choice.
  21. Perfect and Imagined is not as useful as Good Enough & Done. That’s a perfect trio.
  22. Not wanting something is as good as having it.
  23. Start simple. Build a unit of one solution, then scale. 
  24. When it hurts, hire or build.
  25. Create a playlist of songs that bring you joy. Listen to it whenever you need. My joy 20 is here.  
  26. Difficulty reveals character. 
  27. Associate growth with doing. Not reading/watching/listening.
  28. Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.
  29. Work is not a time or a place; it's the thing you do.
  30. Five people in a room for an hour isn’t a one hour meeting, it’s a five hour meeting. 
  31. Be brave enough to suck at something new.
  32. The genius is the one most like himself. Monk
  33. Falling down is an accident, staying down is a choice.
  34. Laughter is carbonated holiness.
  35. So much of the technology we lose our patience with today would've looked like magic ten years ago.
  36. Get on the dance floor at every wedding. No one ever regrets a dance. 
  37. The best time to do everything was ten years ago.
  38. If you are afraid to write it, that’s good. It means it’s closer to the truth.  
  39. If there is a boat trip, take it.
  40. Remember that everyone is most productive when they’re doing what they are good at. Delegate that way. 
  41. If you find yourself not liking what you’re doing for a long period of time, consider a job change.
  42. Success is a lagging indicator. All the hard work was done a long time before the success happened. 
  43. Social media makes more sense when you view it as a place people go to perform rather than a place to communicate.
  44. The most valuable personal finance asset is not needing to impress anyone.
  45. You are replaceable, but your unique value can make you irreplaceable. 
  46. There are two types of successful people: those with imposter syndrome, and sociopaths.
  47. If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu
  48. You don’t have to attend every argument you are invited to. Especially online. 
  49. More people are defeated by blisters than mountains.
  50. Going for a walk won’t solve every problem, but no problem will get worse while you are on a walk. 
  51. Most of death is already gone. Whatever time has passed is owned by death.
  52. Every fourth book you read should be in translation, the next one should be older than you.
  53. Backup your files. In the cloud, on an external hard drive, whatever. Just do it.
  54. You are over halfway to everywhere, carry on. 
  55. Get comfortable saying inane things to strangers. If people want to connect, it doesn’t really matter what you say, it’s simply an invitation.
  56. Is an old favourite song playing on the radio? Never miss a chance to turn it up and sing along.
  57. Sit with yourself for a few minutes a day to declutter your brain. It will reduce stress.
  58. If you can’t walk away, then you don’t have the job… the job has you.
  59. Stop caffeine by 2pm, see how much it improves your sleep.
  60. Get in touch with someone today. I’ll show you how. 
  61. What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.
  62. You don’t have writer’s block. You’re just scared to say what you actually think.
  63. Ships fear fire more than water.
  64. If you're ever confused about what to do, just do the right thing.
  65. Never miss an opportunity to sit on a balcony. Even ten minutes is enough to see something interesting.
  66. if there’s something on your mind, write it down and get it out. Maintain full attention on what you’re doing.
  67. Ask the ‘dumb’ question. Feeling stupid now is better than feeling stupid later.
  68. You decide whether to live in the past or in the future with your every action.
  69. If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim. If someone downplays their success or happiness, assume it’s double what they claim.
  70. The world is full of people who found their calling in their 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond. It is never too late to find yourself.
  71. Learn how to give feedback. Find your framework. 
  72. There is never a social situation where Bill Withers, Donny Hathaway or Etta James can’t improve the mood. 
  73. Never turn down the opportunity to look through a telescope.
  74. Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get. Ingrid Bergman
  75. Plan. Do. Review. Repeat = Kaizen
  76. Never miss date night. Plan one today.
  77. Always have your Desert Island Discs playlist ready, just in case they call. Here’s mine. 
  78. Failure or feedback. You choose. 
  79. Don’t let politics fill you with either rage or despair.
  80. Avoid drama. 
  81. Never pass up an opportunity to charge your devices. 
  82. No matter what the weather is outside, always pack something warm for the plane. 
  83. If it costs you peace, it’s too expensive. 
  84. There is always more than one path to the top of the mountain. 
  85. The work that no one sees is the work that matters the most.
  86. Dreams don’t come true, decisions do.
  87. Alway change your sheets before you go on holiday, your future self will thank you.
  88. If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people. 
  89. Swap the word ‘exercise’ for ‘movement’. 
  90. If you want to run 5km, start by touching the treadmill. It won’t get you there, but you will have started. 
  91. What if it works out exactly as you imagined, or greater. Entertain that thought.
  92. Protect your peace. Remove yourself from situations that trigger you.
  93. Day by Day, what you do is who you become. Heraclitus.
  94. Motivation follows action.
  95. Butterflies rest when it rains so it doesn’t damage their wings. You can fly again AFTER the storm. 
  96. If you blow on a mug of wine in a zoom meeting, it looks just like coffee. 
  97. One of the best forms of self-care is to give yourself extra time to get somewhere. An extra five or ten minutes helps your nervous system.
  98. If you went back in time and fixed all the mistakes you’ve ever made, you would erase yourself.  
  99. The efforts you make quietly will ultimately shine through in every aspect of your life. 
  100. Stop scrolling now.

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