Neville's Digital Surrogate Brain
Here’s two quotes I really love:
This is a quote about having a goal you’re working towards:
“When things are hardest, a clear goal is the most important thing. To have a fountain of energy to draw from. Establishing a worthwhile goal is the hardest part. It gives you a place to go and a reason to get up.” – Earl Nightingale
This one is about building confidence, and that it comes from having a bunch of smaller experiences of success:
“Confidence is built upon an experience of success.”
“Users are pleased by design, but drawn to the content.”
-Jason Beaird
“We become what we think about. People who think about becoming lawyers, become lawyers. A bad environment makes you think bad thoughts. A beautiful environment makes you think beautiful thoughts.”
-Earl Nightingale
“The customers are giving us their money, and it’s our job to turn that money into joy.”
–Reed Hastings – CEO of NetFlix
Soundbyte from A16Z podcast (episode here).
Posted this on the blog, and two weeks later this randomly shows up in the mail!
I love it!!
Happened to have a leftover frame that was the right size, and hung it up in my reading room:
Thank you random poster people that sent it to me :-)
Guessing this is you??
https://gfda.myshopify.com/
Sincerely,
Neville
P.S. I got to play with Google Glass (and take selfies of myself in them). Cool technology, will pass on this 1st generation of them for now, but the 2nd and 3rd iterations will be AWESOME.
Saw this pic on Reddit. It was titled:
“My wife hung this above our staircase. My work life and sex life immediately got better.”
One of my favorite books EVER is How To Get Rich by Felix Dennis.
Towards the end of the book in chapter 19 he attempts to summarize the entire book into eight very-condensed bullet points.
I have written them out verbatim in order to remember them better:
I was just interviewed by Andrew Warner of Mixergy for a video course on how to improve website or email copy….
…and one of my favorite things to say when he asked the question:
“What’s better: Short copy or long copy?”
I answered with the old adage:
Hahahaa!
You should be able to see the full course on AppSumo.com this Friday (5-6-2011).
I believe it will be 100% free for one day.
This will be really useful if you write, as it explains exactly how I made AppSumo a ton of money through emails.
This is one of those quotes I read in an interview that just stopped me cold and I had to write down:
https://www.layogamagazine.com/issue18/Departments/bikram.htm
This applies to business as well as relationships of all kind:
After doing MyBodyTutor for the Six Pack Experiment for several months….everyday…..I learned something:
The sheer power of consistency.
It’s blatantly obvious being consistent in something is powerful, but I never really HAVE been consistent at anything. Look at my blogging habits for example. Right now I’m blogging everyday, but there have been MONTHS in between posts at times. Inconsistency.
Even through school I would have strong periods of doing well in all my classes…followed by a total fall-behind. Inconsistency.
So when I did the Six Pack Experiment and used MyBodyTutor I had to answer everyday to Adam (whom I didn’t want to disappoint), and also to NevBlog readers (whom I also didn’t want to disappoint). I also had a solid end goal in mind (getting a six pack) which I didn’t want to miss. TRIPLE accountability definitely helped me stay on track.
Adam probably used the word “Consistency” more than any other during that experiment…and how true it was.
As Earl Nightingale put it:
Plan out what you want to do for the day. Accomplish it, and that will be a successful day.
Have 5 or 7 successful days in a row, and you’ve had a successful week.
Do this 4 times and you’ve had a successful month.
…then year.
…then lifetime.
Imagine a bricklayer building a wall. He starts with laying a single brick. He may be able to lay 200 bricks in a day. Everyday he continues laying the bricks, and after a while an immense building can be made. However it all happened with single bricks, day after day, week after week of diligent work.
It’s such a simple concept I truly don’t think I’ve ever applied till this Six Pack Experiment! Imagine…I’m 27 years old and never ONCE have been consistent for over 3 months in anything. Definitely a late bloomer.
However lately I’ve been keeping the consistency up. I learned that after about 120 days of MyBodyTutor the eating habits I developed stuck around. I’ve done 30 day experiments before in consistency, but it seems it takes me 4X longer to learn than most people to learn.
The crazy thing is, when I’ve applied consistency to something and its done very well….I wasn’t even working that hard! Usually I would just do a moderate amount of work each day towards the goal, and if I do that little work EVERY DAY it usually ends in a BIG RESULT.
SO I can either be inconsistent and garner decent results with periods of laziness followed by working very hard.
-or-
Just be moderately productive EVERY DAY and garner BIG results.
I choose the 2nd.