- Life and business are interconnected and they always work in cycles of two seasons — winter and preparing for winter. If you don’t prepare well for the winter season, when you’re doing well in your business/life, you’ll have to face a harsh winter. And the winter will come for sure.
- You’ve not understood the market of your specific industry until you’ve spent at least 10 years in it. Staying focussed in one industry will make you understand it in-depth. You’ll learn the rules of that industry by seeing its highs and lows (at least 3 market disruptions are needed) and then you’ll learn how to ride the waves like a timeless winner. You can’t win a game until you’ve learnt its rules. In business, most of the rules you’ll learn will be through experience. If you want to make it easier and can afford it, get a mentor who’s been there longer than you and shares similar values as you.
- In business, in the first 10 years maintaining your success is a positive sign of growth rather than fast disruptive scaling. Most businesses scale fast and get wiped out of the market in 3-5 years.
- Quantum leaps are not healthy. I know a lot of people sell dreams online with the phrase “quantum leap” and that’s absolutely possible and true but it’s not sustainable and healthy for your nervous system. Slow and steady build in your business will get you very far with peace and prosperity. I’ve seen generational legacies being built this way.
- If anything seems too good to be true, it most likely is. Best things in the world are built brick by brick with boring focussed discipline which will rarely seem attractive on the surface. That’s where your discernment comes in.
- Start collecting rejections. If you’re not getting enough rejections that feel like tiny punches, you’re not putting yourself out there enough. Every rejection teaches you skills that nothing else or no one else can teach. Take the lessons and keep moving.
- Humility and gratitude are very underrated skills. No matter where you are, stay grateful for all the opportunities and people who’ve supported you. Always give back to people who need help.
- Nurture relationships and your network over everything else. Those will be your biggest assets in any given scenario.
- Keep God’s Will as your North Star. Best of the strategies will fail if you’re not partnering with God to spread his glory and those will be some of the most humbling lessons.
- Sincere prayers are more powerful than you realize.
