Do you have no idea what to do with your life? Have you never been able to answer the question of "what do you want to be when you grow up?" If so, this 25 page eBook is for you.
Your Thinking Is The Driving Force Behind Your Success
A Success Mindset consists of several qualities.
You have the ability to grow and develop these qualities,
just as you would any muscle or skill.
The secret to success is your mindset. Your mindset is your state of mind that is focused on achieving goals and gives you motivation to do what it takes. There is no true secret to success besides developing a powerful mindset. Your mindset empowers you to take action and make decisions that lead to success, rather than procrastination. To develop a successful mindset, you must learn about personal development through books and courses in order to master controlling your thoughts and focusing on your goals.
The document provides 25 tips for finding your passion and leading a fulfilling life. Some of the key tips include asking friends and family what activities make you happiest, reading widely to discover interests that inspire you, and reflecting on hobbies and activities from your childhood that still bring you joy. The document emphasizes tuning out other people's opinions to truly listen to your inner voice and desires, and persisting in the search for your passion to achieve a fulfilling life.
7 Productivity Lifehacks - Be More Productive NowWeekdone.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work,” wrote Stephan King.
And every time you achieve something, you get a sensation of satisfaction. This satisfaction is productivity that has come to life, fulfilled it's goal.
In Weekdone, we believe in high standards and hard goals. That's why we tried to find the best lifehacks to help us be more productive. Now, we're sharing them with you.
1. The document discusses different types of motivation and what drives success, noting that successful people are motivated by their goals and have a positive mental attitude.
2. It emphasizes the importance of setting written, specific goals in order to stay focused on what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. Having clear goals helps maximize time and effort.
3. Success is defined as the progressive achievement of worthwhile personal goals, and having alignment between personal and professional goals and skills can better enable success.
The document summarizes key points from the book "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz. It encourages thinking big, building confidence through small actions, being open to new ideas, managing one's environment, having a positive attitude, setting goals, visualizing success, helping others to achieve success, and putting service first. The overall message is that thinking big and believing in oneself can help one achieve their dreams through action and perseverance.
How to be confident, keep smiling, avoid over confidence and be oneself. Also learn to advantages of being confident. Take a pledge and get the best tips ever.
The document outlines 7 mindset shifts for success: 1) Do what you do best by being authentic and creating your unique brand, 2) Take 100% responsibility for your actions and attitudes, 3) Give to others to find true fulfillment and empowerment, 4) Lean into struggle by seeing failure as learning, 5) Practice rest-based living through time management and prioritization, 6) Think big through visualization and risk-taking, 7) Be a lifelong student to maintain a learning edge. The mindsets emphasize authenticity, responsibility, service, growth, balance, ambition, and continual self-improvement.
Your Thinking Is The Driving Force Behind Your Success
A Success Mindset consists of several qualities.
You have the ability to grow and develop these qualities,
just as you would any muscle or skill.
The secret to success is your mindset. Your mindset is your state of mind that is focused on achieving goals and gives you motivation to do what it takes. There is no true secret to success besides developing a powerful mindset. Your mindset empowers you to take action and make decisions that lead to success, rather than procrastination. To develop a successful mindset, you must learn about personal development through books and courses in order to master controlling your thoughts and focusing on your goals.
The document provides 25 tips for finding your passion and leading a fulfilling life. Some of the key tips include asking friends and family what activities make you happiest, reading widely to discover interests that inspire you, and reflecting on hobbies and activities from your childhood that still bring you joy. The document emphasizes tuning out other people's opinions to truly listen to your inner voice and desires, and persisting in the search for your passion to achieve a fulfilling life.
7 Productivity Lifehacks - Be More Productive NowWeekdone.com
“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work,” wrote Stephan King.
And every time you achieve something, you get a sensation of satisfaction. This satisfaction is productivity that has come to life, fulfilled it's goal.
In Weekdone, we believe in high standards and hard goals. That's why we tried to find the best lifehacks to help us be more productive. Now, we're sharing them with you.
1. The document discusses different types of motivation and what drives success, noting that successful people are motivated by their goals and have a positive mental attitude.
2. It emphasizes the importance of setting written, specific goals in order to stay focused on what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. Having clear goals helps maximize time and effort.
3. Success is defined as the progressive achievement of worthwhile personal goals, and having alignment between personal and professional goals and skills can better enable success.
The document summarizes key points from the book "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David J. Schwartz. It encourages thinking big, building confidence through small actions, being open to new ideas, managing one's environment, having a positive attitude, setting goals, visualizing success, helping others to achieve success, and putting service first. The overall message is that thinking big and believing in oneself can help one achieve their dreams through action and perseverance.
How to be confident, keep smiling, avoid over confidence and be oneself. Also learn to advantages of being confident. Take a pledge and get the best tips ever.
The document outlines 7 mindset shifts for success: 1) Do what you do best by being authentic and creating your unique brand, 2) Take 100% responsibility for your actions and attitudes, 3) Give to others to find true fulfillment and empowerment, 4) Lean into struggle by seeing failure as learning, 5) Practice rest-based living through time management and prioritization, 6) Think big through visualization and risk-taking, 7) Be a lifelong student to maintain a learning edge. The mindsets emphasize authenticity, responsibility, service, growth, balance, ambition, and continual self-improvement.
This document outlines key factors that lead to success based on research and interviews with successful people. It summarizes that passion, hard work, focus, pushing yourself through challenges, continuously improving skills, serving others with valuable ideas or products, and persisting through criticism and adversity are the 8 secrets common to successful people and billionaires. The document uses quotes from influential figures like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Winston Churchill to support each factor and encourage continuous self-improvement, passion-driven work, and persisting through difficulties to achieve success over time.
This is fundamentally based on the 12 principles that are significant in goal setting process. Those principles were quoted from a report written by Brian Tracy, one of the world’s success coaches. Furthermore, these concepts help you to achieve your goals successfully within a time that you never thought you would able to Hope, you will achieve your goals with the help of the principles discussed in this. Thank you Brian-all the credits go to you.
This document outlines an 8 step process for success in network marketing: 1) Dream, 2) Commitment, 3) Name List, 4) Invitation, 5) Show the Plan & Products, 6) Follow-Up, 7) Consultation and Service, 8) Duplication. It emphasizes positive thinking, teamwork, setting goals, expanding your network, professional presentations, and duplicating the process to build a successful business through recruitment.
The PPT views the secret of life as the name suggests with life related quotes and secrets which you can use in your daily life to make your life wonderful !!!! :)
Passion is defined as a strong motivation to do something one likes. To find your passion, think about activities that make you happy, write down your abilities and goals, and identify activities that give you a desire to be happy. Developing a passion involves finding what attracts you, practicing everyday, finding your motivations, joining friends with shared passions, and turning passions into hobbies. Following your passion can help make dreams come true.
This document discusses techniques for positive thinking and overcoming worries and negative thoughts. It provides a 10-point formula for breaking the worry habit that includes practicing faith, avoiding negative conversations, and affirming positive expectations every day. It also discusses using visualization, believing problems have solutions, and trusting in intuition to solve problems. Faith and trusting in God are presented as keys to happiness, health, and overcoming fears.
The 12 step goal setting process provides a methodical approach to setting and achieving goals. It involves 1) deciding on ideal goals in key areas of life, 2) writing goals down clearly and measurably, 3) setting deadlines, 4) identifying obstacles, 5) identifying needed skills, 6) identifying people whose help is required, 7) making a complete list of steps, 8) organizing the list into a plan, 9) making a detailed plan, 10) selecting the most important daily task, 11) developing self-discipline to focus on tasks, and 12) practicing visualization of achieving goals. The process guides setting a major goal and then breaking it down into specific, ordered steps to develop a comprehensive plan for its
The document discusses avoiding vague buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles. It provides a list of the top 10 most common buzzwords of 2016 such as "leadership", "passionate", and "successful". The document recommends standing out by showing experiences and results through examples rather than just stating buzzwords. It also suggests uploading projects, sharing views in posts and groups, and writing recommendations to demonstrate qualities like creativity and expertise in a more meaningful way.
This document discusses Stephen Covey's habit of thinking win-win. It provides examples of win-win and non-win-win thinking. It encourages seeing others' success as your own success and finding solutions where all parties achieve their goals. It advises being confident rather than letting others dictate your self-worth, and suggests activities for students to reflect on win-win thinking in their own lives.
The document contains quotes from various famous individuals about developing a growth mindset through hard work, persistence, and embracing failure. The quotes emphasize that accomplishments require making the decision to try, that talent alone is not enough and must be accompanied by hard work and practice, and that failure should be accepted as part of the learning process rather than a reason to give up trying. Developing patience, determination, and continually challenging oneself are highlighted as keys to success.
The 8 traits successful people have in commonkomali sunkara
This document outlines 8 traits that are common among successful people: passion, work, focus, push, ideas, improve, serve, and persist. It discusses each trait in detail, providing examples and strategies. For passion, it emphasizes finding what you love and exploring many paths. For work, it promotes working very hard and having fun doing so. For focus, it recommends concentrating by eliminating distractions. The document stresses the importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, getting ideas by observing problems, improving constantly, serving others with value, and persisting through failures, mistakes, criticism, and rejections.
The document discusses the importance of having a positive mindset and attitude for achieving success. It states that positive thinking and a positive attitude lead to positive results. It provides five steps for developing a successful mindset: 1) Believe you create your own destiny, 2) Commit to positive thinking and avoiding negative thoughts, 3) Maintain a sense of humor, 4) Don't worry and believe everything will be okay, and 5) Be grateful for what you have today. The overall message is that focusing on positivity rather than negativity empowers you to achieve your goals.
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
The document outlines 8 habits of successful people:
1. Goal setting - Deciding what success means and having a target to work towards.
2. Planning - Making complete plans for how to succeed and what actions to take, even if plans change.
3. Acting - Taking action on plans and opportunities instead of waiting.
4. Learning from failures - Failing at least once to learn lessons to avoid mistakes and keep progressing.
5. Adjusting - Updating plans with new lessons learned to progress most efficiently.
6. Moving forward - Having courage to try again after failure using knowledge gained.
7. Improving - Continually seeking knowledge and believing there is always more to
Here are top 6 positive thinking tips that can help you change the way you think about other people and things around. To learn more tips of this type, click the link: http://vkool.com/discover-16-positive-thinking-tips/.
1. Treat Others As You Want To Be Treated
All people wish to be treated with respect. The way that you behave others shows your personality. Therefore, if you want to have good personality, including positive thoughts, you should treat other people the way you want to be treated. If you want to be trusted by friends, learn to trust them first. If you want to be loved by your relatives, learn to love them first. If you want to be welcomed by neighbors, learn to welcome them first.
2. Be Tolerant
In order to build positive thoughts, you should learn to forgive people who make you sad or angry. You even need to learn to forgive the ones who offend you. No matter what they do to you, they are teaching you some good lessons in life.
Moreover, you should be honestly happy when people around you succeed in life or at work. Do not be jealous with them as jealousy is one of the typical causes of negative thinking.
3. Avoid Negative Self-Talk
Among positive thinking tips, avoiding negative self-talk is the most important. What you talk to yourself also will result in the way you behave people around. If your mind is full of negative self-talk, you will not be able to treat others with respect as you may believe that they do not deserve your good behavior. When you are in that situation, try to eliminate your negative talk, and tell yourself that everyone may make mistakes, but everyone has something for you to learn from.
4. Do Meditation Or Yoga
Bath helps clean your body and meditation helps clean and refresh your mind. People who meditate on a regular basis have more positive thoughts than the ones who do not meditate. Meditation will certainly become the future of mankind. If you are a wise person, you should start doing meditation today to enjoy its benefits, to think more positively, and to have a better life.
Yoga helps you stop thinking negatively about others as it is really relaxing when you do it. Doing yoga also helps ease and refresh your mind, building positive thoughts.
5. Help People Around
If you can live for others, your mind will always be clean and relaxed. Helping people around is one of the top positive thinking tips. When you try your best to give others a helping hand, you are building your dignity. What you give others will certainly return to you some ways. If you help others, your mind will be built up with love, respect, and gratitude. As a result, you will be thinking positively.
6. Make Friends With Positive People
When you are with positive people, you can learn from them the way they treat others, and the way they think about life. You will gradually change the way you think as positive as they do.
The document provides tips for self-development and achieving goals through effective time management and daily habits. It recommends setting lifetime dreams and goals in writing, breaking big goals into smaller steps, prioritizing health, getting adequate sleep, spending time with family, maintaining a positive environment, and continuously learning.
This document discusses the importance of setting goals to achieve your dreams. It provides several quotes about dreaming and doing. It then outlines steps for setting SMART goals, which include making goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. The document emphasizes writing down both long-term and short-term goals, breaking large goals into smaller steps, reviewing goals regularly, and sharing goals with others to stay accountable. Setting clear, measurable goals is presented as key to making progress and achieving dreams.
This document provides a recipe for discovering one's ideal job and taking steps to pursue it. It outlines a 3-step process: 1) design the ideal job, 2) discover what's blocking you from doing it, and 3) remove the resistance. Various exercises are presented to help identify the ideal job in terms of what one would do, where, and with whom. Additional exercises aim to uncover internal blocks like fear of failure, selfishness, or feeling unworthy. Flowcharts summarize the overall process.
This document discusses tools and strategies for performing well under pressure. It introduces the concept of moving from a "red" stressed state to a "blue" focused state when facing pressure. Some key points:
- Practicing recognizing and accepting what you can/can't control helps build resilience and ability to stay focused under pressure.
- Self-reflection on past stressful incidents can provide insight on unhelpful responses and how to shift attention when feeling stressed.
- Anticipating likely sources of pressure through a "what if" exercise allows preparing mental strategies rather than being caught off-guard.
- Regularly practicing scenarios and responses can help stimulate high performance instead of being hindered when pressure occurs.
This document outlines key factors that lead to success based on research and interviews with successful people. It summarizes that passion, hard work, focus, pushing yourself through challenges, continuously improving skills, serving others with valuable ideas or products, and persisting through criticism and adversity are the 8 secrets common to successful people and billionaires. The document uses quotes from influential figures like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Winston Churchill to support each factor and encourage continuous self-improvement, passion-driven work, and persisting through difficulties to achieve success over time.
This is fundamentally based on the 12 principles that are significant in goal setting process. Those principles were quoted from a report written by Brian Tracy, one of the world’s success coaches. Furthermore, these concepts help you to achieve your goals successfully within a time that you never thought you would able to Hope, you will achieve your goals with the help of the principles discussed in this. Thank you Brian-all the credits go to you.
This document outlines an 8 step process for success in network marketing: 1) Dream, 2) Commitment, 3) Name List, 4) Invitation, 5) Show the Plan & Products, 6) Follow-Up, 7) Consultation and Service, 8) Duplication. It emphasizes positive thinking, teamwork, setting goals, expanding your network, professional presentations, and duplicating the process to build a successful business through recruitment.
The PPT views the secret of life as the name suggests with life related quotes and secrets which you can use in your daily life to make your life wonderful !!!! :)
Passion is defined as a strong motivation to do something one likes. To find your passion, think about activities that make you happy, write down your abilities and goals, and identify activities that give you a desire to be happy. Developing a passion involves finding what attracts you, practicing everyday, finding your motivations, joining friends with shared passions, and turning passions into hobbies. Following your passion can help make dreams come true.
This document discusses techniques for positive thinking and overcoming worries and negative thoughts. It provides a 10-point formula for breaking the worry habit that includes practicing faith, avoiding negative conversations, and affirming positive expectations every day. It also discusses using visualization, believing problems have solutions, and trusting in intuition to solve problems. Faith and trusting in God are presented as keys to happiness, health, and overcoming fears.
The 12 step goal setting process provides a methodical approach to setting and achieving goals. It involves 1) deciding on ideal goals in key areas of life, 2) writing goals down clearly and measurably, 3) setting deadlines, 4) identifying obstacles, 5) identifying needed skills, 6) identifying people whose help is required, 7) making a complete list of steps, 8) organizing the list into a plan, 9) making a detailed plan, 10) selecting the most important daily task, 11) developing self-discipline to focus on tasks, and 12) practicing visualization of achieving goals. The process guides setting a major goal and then breaking it down into specific, ordered steps to develop a comprehensive plan for its
The document discusses avoiding vague buzzwords in LinkedIn profiles. It provides a list of the top 10 most common buzzwords of 2016 such as "leadership", "passionate", and "successful". The document recommends standing out by showing experiences and results through examples rather than just stating buzzwords. It also suggests uploading projects, sharing views in posts and groups, and writing recommendations to demonstrate qualities like creativity and expertise in a more meaningful way.
This document discusses Stephen Covey's habit of thinking win-win. It provides examples of win-win and non-win-win thinking. It encourages seeing others' success as your own success and finding solutions where all parties achieve their goals. It advises being confident rather than letting others dictate your self-worth, and suggests activities for students to reflect on win-win thinking in their own lives.
The document contains quotes from various famous individuals about developing a growth mindset through hard work, persistence, and embracing failure. The quotes emphasize that accomplishments require making the decision to try, that talent alone is not enough and must be accompanied by hard work and practice, and that failure should be accepted as part of the learning process rather than a reason to give up trying. Developing patience, determination, and continually challenging oneself are highlighted as keys to success.
The 8 traits successful people have in commonkomali sunkara
This document outlines 8 traits that are common among successful people: passion, work, focus, push, ideas, improve, serve, and persist. It discusses each trait in detail, providing examples and strategies. For passion, it emphasizes finding what you love and exploring many paths. For work, it promotes working very hard and having fun doing so. For focus, it recommends concentrating by eliminating distractions. The document stresses the importance of pushing yourself out of your comfort zone, getting ideas by observing problems, improving constantly, serving others with value, and persisting through failures, mistakes, criticism, and rejections.
The document discusses the importance of having a positive mindset and attitude for achieving success. It states that positive thinking and a positive attitude lead to positive results. It provides five steps for developing a successful mindset: 1) Believe you create your own destiny, 2) Commit to positive thinking and avoiding negative thoughts, 3) Maintain a sense of humor, 4) Don't worry and believe everything will be okay, and 5) Be grateful for what you have today. The overall message is that focusing on positivity rather than negativity empowers you to achieve your goals.
The document provides 10 timeless productivity hacks that will make you more productive. Some of the key hacks include: defining your most important tasks each day; focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking; creating a morning routine; limiting distractions like social media; prioritizing important work; batching similar tasks; eliminating unnecessary tasks; and doing the task you are most likely to procrastinate first. Following these simple habits can improve overall productivity without needing a complex system.
The document outlines 8 habits of successful people:
1. Goal setting - Deciding what success means and having a target to work towards.
2. Planning - Making complete plans for how to succeed and what actions to take, even if plans change.
3. Acting - Taking action on plans and opportunities instead of waiting.
4. Learning from failures - Failing at least once to learn lessons to avoid mistakes and keep progressing.
5. Adjusting - Updating plans with new lessons learned to progress most efficiently.
6. Moving forward - Having courage to try again after failure using knowledge gained.
7. Improving - Continually seeking knowledge and believing there is always more to
Here are top 6 positive thinking tips that can help you change the way you think about other people and things around. To learn more tips of this type, click the link: http://vkool.com/discover-16-positive-thinking-tips/.
1. Treat Others As You Want To Be Treated
All people wish to be treated with respect. The way that you behave others shows your personality. Therefore, if you want to have good personality, including positive thoughts, you should treat other people the way you want to be treated. If you want to be trusted by friends, learn to trust them first. If you want to be loved by your relatives, learn to love them first. If you want to be welcomed by neighbors, learn to welcome them first.
2. Be Tolerant
In order to build positive thoughts, you should learn to forgive people who make you sad or angry. You even need to learn to forgive the ones who offend you. No matter what they do to you, they are teaching you some good lessons in life.
Moreover, you should be honestly happy when people around you succeed in life or at work. Do not be jealous with them as jealousy is one of the typical causes of negative thinking.
3. Avoid Negative Self-Talk
Among positive thinking tips, avoiding negative self-talk is the most important. What you talk to yourself also will result in the way you behave people around. If your mind is full of negative self-talk, you will not be able to treat others with respect as you may believe that they do not deserve your good behavior. When you are in that situation, try to eliminate your negative talk, and tell yourself that everyone may make mistakes, but everyone has something for you to learn from.
4. Do Meditation Or Yoga
Bath helps clean your body and meditation helps clean and refresh your mind. People who meditate on a regular basis have more positive thoughts than the ones who do not meditate. Meditation will certainly become the future of mankind. If you are a wise person, you should start doing meditation today to enjoy its benefits, to think more positively, and to have a better life.
Yoga helps you stop thinking negatively about others as it is really relaxing when you do it. Doing yoga also helps ease and refresh your mind, building positive thoughts.
5. Help People Around
If you can live for others, your mind will always be clean and relaxed. Helping people around is one of the top positive thinking tips. When you try your best to give others a helping hand, you are building your dignity. What you give others will certainly return to you some ways. If you help others, your mind will be built up with love, respect, and gratitude. As a result, you will be thinking positively.
6. Make Friends With Positive People
When you are with positive people, you can learn from them the way they treat others, and the way they think about life. You will gradually change the way you think as positive as they do.
The document provides tips for self-development and achieving goals through effective time management and daily habits. It recommends setting lifetime dreams and goals in writing, breaking big goals into smaller steps, prioritizing health, getting adequate sleep, spending time with family, maintaining a positive environment, and continuously learning.
This document discusses the importance of setting goals to achieve your dreams. It provides several quotes about dreaming and doing. It then outlines steps for setting SMART goals, which include making goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound. The document emphasizes writing down both long-term and short-term goals, breaking large goals into smaller steps, reviewing goals regularly, and sharing goals with others to stay accountable. Setting clear, measurable goals is presented as key to making progress and achieving dreams.
This document provides a recipe for discovering one's ideal job and taking steps to pursue it. It outlines a 3-step process: 1) design the ideal job, 2) discover what's blocking you from doing it, and 3) remove the resistance. Various exercises are presented to help identify the ideal job in terms of what one would do, where, and with whom. Additional exercises aim to uncover internal blocks like fear of failure, selfishness, or feeling unworthy. Flowcharts summarize the overall process.
This document discusses tools and strategies for performing well under pressure. It introduces the concept of moving from a "red" stressed state to a "blue" focused state when facing pressure. Some key points:
- Practicing recognizing and accepting what you can/can't control helps build resilience and ability to stay focused under pressure.
- Self-reflection on past stressful incidents can provide insight on unhelpful responses and how to shift attention when feeling stressed.
- Anticipating likely sources of pressure through a "what if" exercise allows preparing mental strategies rather than being caught off-guard.
- Regularly practicing scenarios and responses can help stimulate high performance instead of being hindered when pressure occurs.
Setting Goals For Yourself, And Motivating Yourselfkktv
This document provides guidance on setting goals and staying motivated to achieve them. It discusses the importance of having goals, plans, and taking action. It also offers tips for visualizing the future, finding role models, getting organized, and using positive affirmations and self-talk to stay motivated. Managing choices and responding to resistance from others is also addressed.
This document discusses 6 honest reasons why people procrastinate and provides suggestions on how to address each reason. The reasons are: 1) Not knowing what to do first; 2) Feeling overwhelmed; 3) Not being interested in the task; 4) Having too much time until the deadline; 5) Fear of failure or success; and 6) Just feeling lazy. For each reason, the document offers quick actions one can take, such as breaking large projects into smaller tasks, setting earlier deadlines, talking through fears, and allowing for lazy time before refocusing on the task.
This document provides an introduction to a 10-question e-course designed to help people facing big life changes, such as career transitions, make choices aligned with their values and purpose. The e-course guides users to slow down, focus internally, and connect with who they are, what they want, and their vision and values. This process is meant to reduce fear and enable more satisfying decisions in the face of challenging crossroads. Key aspects covered include reflecting on what currently works well, dreaming about desires, identifying one's qualities and talents, and envisioning one's purpose and future.
The document provides tips for being happy with yourself, including asking who you are, not dwelling on the past, focusing on your own perspective rather than others' views, and expressing your individuality. It also outlines steps for achieving goals, such as identifying goals, setting target dates, and staying motivated. The overall message is that one can find happiness by developing self-knowledge and working to achieve personal goals.
This document discusses various tips and strategies for staying motivated, including setting goals, making plans, taking action and managing distractions. It emphasizes controlling your time, believing in your ability to achieve goals, and using affirmations and visualizations. Specific tips include writing down your desired future, finding role models, placing motivational reminders in your environment, reading success stories, spending time with children, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, and using positive self-talk and affirmation exercises on a regular basis. The overall message is that motivation, goals, plans and consistent action are needed to be in control of your life.
This document provides a summary of Stephen Covey's book "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People". It discusses two main philosophies on success - the Personality Ethic and the Character Ethic. The Personality Ethic attributes success to traits and skills, while the Character Ethic sees it as stemming from principles like integrity, courage and justice.
The document then summarizes each of the 7 Habits that move people through stages of dependence, independence and interdependence. Habit 1 is to be proactive by choosing your response to things rather than reacting explosively. Habit 2 is to begin with the end in mind by envisioning the person you want to become. Habit 3 is to put
The document discusses developing ideas and achieving goals. It emphasizes the importance of truly knowing yourself and what you want, investigating all options thoroughly, and understanding the landscape and challenges involved in different paths to your goal.
The document provides strategies for overcoming common negative success indicators for students. For making excuses and blaming others, the strategies are to take responsibility for your own work and not blame others. For tardiness, the strategies are to arrive to class 15 minutes early and get enough sleep so you aren't tired. For avoiding responsibility, the strategies are to realize you need to do your own work to learn and split group assignments evenly. For partying over studying, the strategies are to finish homework before socializing and prioritize school over parties. For apathy, the strategies are to stop attending class if uninterested or set goals and be excited about your studies. For lack of focus or goals, the strategies
If you could increase your brain power, then theoretically you could accomplish almost anything.
While having a healthy and strong body is highly important as well, most of us would probably agree that our activities are more reliant on our cognitive abilities rather than our physical ones.
Many people have computer-based jobs for instance, and this means that we need to use our brains to handle data, to manipulate software, or to come up with business strategies.
Much of our success comes down to our ability to interact with others which is very much dependent on our intelligence and brain power.
With Smarter Brain training guide you will learn the ways you can bring about tangible, measurable improvements in your life by focussing on ways to increase your IQ and your focus.
Setting goals beyond your capabilities and never being content with mediocrity are essential to success. Taking control of your own future rather than letting others dictate it, and taking consistent small actions each day are also important guidelines. Maintaining a positive attitude, being helpful to others, working hard, and continuing to learn are additional keys to achieving success in life or business.
25 killer actions to boost your self confidenceKoduvayur Anand
Below, I outline 25 things that will help you do that. None of them is revolutionary, none of them will do it all by themselves. The list certainly isn’t comprehensive. These are just some of my favorite things, stuff that’s worked for me.
And you don’t need to do all of them, as if this were a recipe … pick and choose those that appeal to you, maybe just a couple at first, and give them a try. If they work, try others. If they don’t, try others.
You can see the video here: 25 killer tips to boost Self Confidence
https://youtu.be/LMP9wuCrNy0
Quarter Life Presentation - Figuring out your WhyNatalie Robinson
Presented at Quarter Life, an Akina Foundation; an event designed to introduce young professionals to the various ways you can create impact in your career, business or life.
The document discusses motivational obstacles faced by two students - Katherine Delgado and Yary Rios. Katherine's obstacle is "mental paralysis" when she gets a bad grade, while Yary's is having an attitude that allows emotions to control her reactions. They provide strategies for overcoming these obstacles, such as maintaining a positive mindset, analyzing situations before reacting, and setting goals and timeframes to stay committed. They also discuss strategies for obstacles like commitment issues and self-imposed barriers.
The document discusses critical reading and provides tips for doing it. It defines critical reading as scrutinizing information rather than easily believing it. The tips presented for critical reading are annotating texts by adding explanatory notes, outlining to extract essential features without details, summarizing to state the main points briefly, and evaluating information to assess it.
The document discusses time management and how to become an effective leader by managing your time well. It notes that time is a scarce resource that passes quickly and cannot be managed, but ourselves and our activities can be managed to make the most of the available time. It provides tips for analyzing how time is currently spent, identifying common time wasters, and developing better time management habits like setting goals, priorities, schedules and avoiding procrastination. The key is to focus on important tasks that are aligned with your vision and mission, rather than less critical or urgent activities.
This document provides guidance on using more formal, specific, and effective word choice in academic writing. It addresses avoiding vague words like "thing" and "it," rewriting examples to replace those words. It also advises against starting sentences with conjunctions. The document evaluates thesis statements and examples from essays, offering feedback on making references to course texts and supporting ideas with specific personal examples and observations. It stresses the importance of editing and revising one's own writing.
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2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Intro………………………………….…3
Success and Hard Work………….….4
A Tale of Two Stories…………….…..6
My Story…………………………….….8
What Are You Good At?..................13
Passionate Examples…………….…14
Keep Chopping……………………….15
F-U Money………………………….…16
Lifestyle and the Law School Trap....17
Passion Finding Strategies……….…18
Facing Reality…………………………20
Conclusion……………………………..23
About Ben……………………………...24
Additional Resources…………………25
2
3. INTRO
To start, honestly answer the following questions:1
This book is for you if you have no idea how to • Was the major you have now the same major you
answer the question: planned to have your first week of college? 1
• Did you declare your major right around the last
“What do you want to be when day possible to declare a major?
you grow up?” • Did you find your major boring?
I recently found my passion and it’s made my life crystal • Would you have studied something else if you
clear. Until I turned twenty five I had no idea what I weren’t worried about getting a job?
wanted to do with my life. I couldn’t even answer the
• Do you know what you want to do after you
“grow up” question when I was five years old. But once I
graduate?
realized my passion, life became a lot easier because:
• Are you done with school but not sure what you
Once you find your passion, your life and want to do with your life long-term? 2
work makes much more sense.
If these questions made you queasy, keep reading.
1
This was originally written with college students in mind.
Keep reading, the rest of the book still applies to you.
2
If you had no clue what you were going to study when you
got to college, your answer is no.
2
Don’t confuse this with what you think you’re supposed to
do after you graduate.
3
4. SUCCESS & HARD WORK
Hard work.
I’m guessing you want to “succeed” in whatever way
you define “success”, or else you wouldn’t be reading Between deciding you want to become something
this. Well, I have great news! and becoming the best at it, there’s years and years
of hard work.
The formula for success is easy:
And to get through all that work, you need
Work really hard at something, and twenty
to have a passion for the work you do.
years later, you’ll be really good at that thing.
And if you’re not sure that’s what you want to do for
Don’t worry I’m not going to rehash Malcolm Gladwell’s
the next twenty years, you’ll almost never put in all the
Outliers book for twenty four pages. 3 If you’re not
work needed to become successful. But even worse, you
familiar, Gladwell argues that most talent isn’t innate so
might put in all that work into something you don’t love
much as it is an instrument of deliberate practice, and
because you couldn’t think of anything else to do and
that it usually takes around 10,000 hours of an activity
twenty years down the line you’ll realize that you’re
to get really good at it. Tiger Woods might have had a
completely miserable. The technical name for most of
slight advantage at golf when he was four, but without
these people is “lawyer.”
practicing every day for the next twenty years you
wouldn’t know his name.
I bet I can name any sort of occupation, doctor, lawyer,
actor and you can tell me how to become successful at
that job. So why are you reading this instead of
becoming the next Tom Cruise or Johnny Cochran?
3
Although you should read it.
4
5. SUCCESS & HARD WORK
If you love what you’re doing, you lose
Tack on a spouse and kids, and now you’re stuck, bitter track of time and you power through the
and on antidepressants. I don’t mean to be a Debbie
hard work because you can’t imagine
Downer or anything. Almost everyone, including me,
has had the fear of making the wrong choice. This is why doing anything else.
we’re delaying making a “career choice” for longer and
You also save money this way because you’re not
longer. And when we don’t delay, we switch careers,
starting the twenty year process over from scratch. buying trinkets to distract you from the
I’ve already done that twice myself. meaninglessness of your day to day existence.
You’re right -- that’s cynical and our economy
Before I get to the good stuff, I have some devastating
depends on buying worthless trinkets.
news:
There’s no shortcut to
busting your butt.
Unless you want to be mediocre, you’re going to have to
work hard. And hard work sucks!
BUT there is a shortcut to not minding
hard work:
Passion.
5
6. A TALE OF TWO STORIES
For most middle class kids in America the path of
least resistance is something like:
Let me tell you about two people.
Get good grades in elementary school, so you
Bob graduated in the top 5% of his class in high
school, top 1% in college, went to work for a can get good grades in middle school, so you
prestigious consulting firm, and then quit the can get into the honors classes in high school.
consulting firm to attend a top 5 PhD program on Get good grades in high school and do the
full scholarship. Sounds pretty impressive right? “right” extracurricular activities so you can
Parents must be proud. get into a good college. Get good grades in
Well, Bob never cared about all of this stuff, but he college so you can get a good job, get a good
did it because it sounded good around adults at job so you can make good money, make good
dinner parties. And besides, for Bob, all of this stuff money so you can retire good, retire good
was the path of least resistance.
and soon you’ll be good and dead.
The path of least resistance is going
along the easiest possible route that’s
already planned out for you and not
thinking about where you’ll end up
when the path ends and you’re facing
the vast open space.
6
7. A TALE OF TWO STORIES
Who can you relate to more, Bob or Betty?
And of course, before you die, pop out some kids and Now let’s try a different question:
then train them to do the same. I’m not saying that this
path is bad or evil, but it’s just the standard path you’re If you don’t have to choose, can you relate to both Bob
probably on right now without realizing it. This standard and Betty?
path is not for everyone. You know, the whole doing things to impress adults on
Okay, enough about Bob and his path. Here’s Betty’s one hand and then doing what you find interesting on
story: the other. I know I can relate to both. But that’s because
the story of Bob and Betty is my story:
In college she started a parody website of her university
and would pour hours into writing articles, designing the I’m both Bob and Betty.
site and selling custom made merchandise. Within a
I’m going to write about myself for a few minutes,
year, everyone at school had heard of the site. Betty
because almost everyone loves to talk about
was also managing her friend’s stand up comedy career
themselves. But after that, unlike most people, I’m
and would be at comedy clubs frequently. Two years
going to show you how my story applies to your life.
after graduation, Betty tried getting on stage herself,
and she’s been performing constantly ever since. You
haven’t heard of her… yet… but you will in five to ten
years, after she keeps busting her butt. Of course, she’s
not usually invited to dinner parties with adults, but
even if she was, she’d decline because she’d rather
perform comedy every night.
7
8. MY STORY
P…hD Dropout.
Like I mentioned in Bob’s story, I got high grades in Before I dropped out, I was considering taking
undergrad, a “prestigious” job coming out of school, antidepressant pills and/or ADHD pills in order to try to
was promoted at the first chance, and I started force myself to concentrate on something I had little
attending a top five university on a full scholarship. interest in.
Sounds awesome right? Nope.
It’s a lot easier to medicate yourself into
Someone was paying me two grand complacency than to make a big life change.
a month to get my PhD and I was Psychiatric pills can make you feel (falsely)
good, but making a big, positive life change
completely miserable.
will make you feel a hundred times better.
It took six weeks of misery for me to drop out of
Well, unless you take ecstasy… just kidding!
Caltech.
Before dropping out, the grad school math did take me
to new heights. 125 New Heights Ave, my psychologist’s
office. I’d never gone to a shrink before but I was
sleeping fifteen hours a day and couldn’t force myself
out of bed to learn the material grad school wanted me
to learn. And whenever I’d try to learn, I’d end up
thinking about comedy instead. And why I wasn’t doing
enough of it. So I dropped out. My parents were not
happy.
Do you know how to spell parental disappointment?
8
9. MY STORY
And you know what, it sounded really good.
The day I made my decision to drop out, I went to the
It still sounds good.
Caltech career fair. All the “hot companies” are there
hiring, Google, Hulu, Goldman Sachs. And I’m there This might be obvious but I want to mention it
sweating, in my gym shorts. Cause I stopped in after a anyway: the older you get, the harder it is to make a
ninety minute workout. I went up to every recruiter that
big life change. Just like it’s easier to change majors
was smiling (most looked miserable), and said, “Hi, I’m
from computer science to theatre arts your
not looking for a job. I actually just decided to drop out
freshman year than it is to do when you’re six
of Caltech to become a comedian. Are you guys looking
credits away from graduating, it’s easier to change
for entertainment at this year’s Christmas party?”
careers and lifestyle when you’re one to five years
This is the only time I’ve genuinely out of college then when you’re middle aged with
smiled at a career fair. kids and a mortgage. Although if you’re forty five
and reading this, you should still make the big life
And no, I didn’t get any gigs from that. You can’t even change if you’re miserable -- just don’t do it as
get a comedy job in shorts and a stinky t-shirt. But that abruptly.
wasn’t the point of me going.
I had to hear myself say it out loud:
“I’m dropping out of Caltech to
become a comedian.”
9
10. MY STORY
I did get one anonymous email telling me I wasn’t
funny. And I’m like, of course I’m not funny, I got
Do you think that once I made the decision to drop out
eighteen more years of hard work to go! 4
there were plenty of people telling me I was making a
huge mistake and would regret it for the rest of my life? There were signs I shouldn’t have even gone to grad
school, but I ignored them because the grad school story
I sure thought there would be. But actually, sounded too good.
the most common thing I’ve heard is:
I’d been saying for months that as soon as comedy was
“Wow, I really respect that. I love music but paying me the same two grand a month as grad school, I
was quitting. This is the same logic as, “I’ll stop eating
never had the courage to fully pursue. And I
hot fudge sundaes, right after I lose twenty pounds.”
don’t really love what I’m doing now.”
The day I knew I made the right decision was when
a professor told me:
“There is no better job in the world than
being a professor at Caltech.”
And my first thought was:
“I’d rather do five minutes of
jokes in the basement of a
Mexican restaurant.” 4
You can send your anonymous hate mail to
Ben@BigBenComedy.com
10
11. MY STORY
If there’s something you’d rather do
Another sign that pointed me to comedy was how I than have sex, you should figure out
broke up with my girlfriend of six years. After this story,
male readers will probably think I’m awesome and
female readers will think that I’m a jerk. Both are
partially true, but neither is the point.
A year and a half before the first time I ever got on
stage, my consulting company decided to do a comedy
night event where they brought in professional
comedians to do an hour of material. And I was going to
pick up my girlfriend and bring her to the event. But a
few hours before the show she calls me and starts with: a way to make money doing it.
“I don’t want to go. Why can’t you just come up here
and hang out with me? Why don’t the two of us just go There’s a book about happiness appropriately titled
do something alone?” “Stumbling on Happiness.” In it, the author says in order
to find out if you’ll be happy in a given situation,
I thought about it for a few minutes, and then I told whether it’s working a certain career or buying a new
her, “I don’t want to choose, but if I must, I’d rather go pair of jeans, you should:
to the comedy show than see you. And if that’s how I
feel, we probably shouldn’t be dating.” Find someone very similar to you in age
For the record, I don’t advocate breaking up with and background that has already gone
someone over the phone. But the point is: through with that decision, and ask
them whether they are happy or not.
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12. MY STORY
Pick an answer.
This sounds counterintuitive, but give it a try. Whenever So that was actually a trick question.
you come across someone similar to you who does
I wrote those words a month before I filled out my first
something that sounds interesting, ask them “do you
grad school application. I didn’t even know I was going
like what you do?” Then pay attention if they hesitate or
to grad school yet and I was setting the terms for when
shift their eyes around a bunch before answering.
I’d quit to do comedy.
You’ll notice when you ask most investment bankers or
Now, besides showing I might have mild psychic
other large salary earners this question, they’ll either
abilities, I think this shows that if you look around
flat out say “no, I hate it” or skip that part of the
enough, you’ll notice something similar about an
sentence and go straight to “I enjoy the money that
activity you like doing. It doesn’t matter if it’s playing
comes from it.”
the latest Madden video game or cake decorating.
I’m going to quote from my blog, and I want you to
guess when I wrote it: I bet there’s some activity you actually
“I hope for two things: 1) That a job in academia will enjoy doing, besides sleep.
allow me to do comedy, teaching and research without
having to give any of those up and 2) If I can’t do both,
Once, you identify this activity, no
I’ll man up and go for the chance at comedy.” matter how weird, stupid or scary it
Did I write this: sounds, you have to try figuring out how
a) Right after I was admitted to grad school to make money doing it.
b) Sometime between accepting their offer and
enrolling
c) After enrolling
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13. WHAT ARE YOU GOOD AT?
I’m sure you’re good at something.
So here’s where I continue the let down train. I know
Try to take a look at what you’re already good at,
the title of this book is, “How to find your passion.”
then try to figure out what kind of careers use that.
Well, I never actually found my passion. Let’s say you’re really good at Madden, here’s some
I tricked you, huh? See, I never found it because I was possible “respectable” careers, assuming you’re not
already involved with my passion long before I was able getting drafted into the NFL: video game designer, video
to recognize it. game tester, NFL executive, NFL scout, medical trainer,
video tape guy, football coach, strength coach. I’m sure
My eighth grade English teacher spent a few months you can think of others too. Now all of those careers
assigning creative writing stories and then had us read have a lot of work behind them, but if you like what you
them aloud. I wasn’t exactly popular in middle school do, you’ll get through that hard work.
but my stories always got laughs and kids who didn’t
talk to me otherwise would comment on how good my
stories were. 5
My point is that I’ve had some sort of
comedic writing and performing ability
since I could speak, but I never thought I
could make a career of it.
5
They weren’t that good.
13
14. PASSIONATE EXAMPLES
Here’s another example:
I’m in no way unique with figuring out how to apply my My friend Laura is hysterical when critiquing things
passion to make money, here’s one example: and she loves to eat. Like obsesses with trying new
Alicia wasn’t doing well in college studying political restaurants and new bars and talks about food all
science because she was spending all her time the time. She studied communications and is doing
organizing sorority events as the sorority president, some public relations stuff during the day, but at
which she really enjoyed doing. What kind of career can night she started a food review blog. She’s been at it
you envision for her? a year, posting daily reviews and meal deals, it’s not
No, she’s not a thirty year old still going to sorority paying her bills, yet, but it’s already one of the top
formals. She became a college administrator whose job ten food blogs in New York City and she’s started
is to organize lots of on campus events. getting free meals and food samples all the time.
She has a respectable job and loves doing it. I have a feeling it’s only a matter of time
before she figures out a way to make a
living critiquing food.
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15. “KEEP CHOPPING”
“Is this the forest I want to get out
Besides performing comedy, I’m also a huge college of, or would I rather chop my way
football fan. In particular: Rutgers Football. out of somewhere else?”
Coach Greg Schiano has a metaphor the team has been
using for years, which I like as well. He says: Because believe me, after you make your way out of
one forest, you’re not going to want an axe for a long
“Imagine you’re in the middle of a dense time. But if you’re enjoying the forest you’re in, you
forest of trees. It’s all dark, you can’t won’t want the chopping to end.
see. All you have is an axe. The only way In other words:
out is to pick up the axe, pick a direction,
People only want to retire when
and then keep chopping.”
they hate their jobs.
If you ignore the panicky feeling and the denseness of
the forest, and just focus on the task at hand, Bill Cosby and Robin Williams are millionaires in
eventually, you’ll get out of the forest. their 60’s and 70’s that are still doing comedy
This is a great metaphor for anything, especially for a because they love it.
potential career. Your first few months in a new work The sad thing is, a lot of people will retire and then have
environment, you have no idea what’s going on. You’re no idea what to do with themselves because they
in the middle of a forest and just have to keep chopping always put off discovering their passion. And now they
and making whatever progress you can. fill their days with Murder She Wrote reruns.
Doing this will work real well. However, remember that
Please don’t become one of those people.
every once in a while you should ask yourself:
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16. F-U MONEY
If I was a really bad author, this is where I’d end the
book. I’d tell you to go ahead and do that. And then
Imagine logging into your checking account and seeing figure out how to make money doing it.
you have one hundred million dollars in there.
Lying on the beach all day? Create the most private
That’s $100,000,000!
beach club in the world.
If you’re really imagining it, you should Playing golf every day? Bust your butt to become a PGA
have a huge smile. player.
Alright, so you have what’s called F-U money. But that’s not enough. This is only the start. Only the
F-U money is where you no longer answer to any bosses general path towards which you should TRY taking a few
and can do what you please. If they demand something steps towards.
of you that you don’t feel like doing, you can just say, Besides, I bet a lot of you very honestly answered, “I
“F-U, I quit.” have no idea what I’d do day to day.” Hell, if you asked
Here’s the hard part. You got your hundred million, now me this in college, I would’ve never have said “be a
I want you to imagine what your day to day existence is comedian”.
like. Not the first thing you’d do, and not the trip to
Europe you’d finally take, but after all that.
• You wake up in the morning and what do you do?
• Where are you?
• Who are you surrounded by?
Look at those questions again and really try to answer
them.
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17. LIFESTYLE AND THE LAW SCHOOL TRAP
Colleges and society might get mad at me, but don’t go
to more school unless you’re at least 90% certain you
I think I can summarize everything I’ve been saying in
want to turn that extra education into a profession.
another way:
I almost went to law school. I took the LSATs and did
You don’t want to look for an occupation; you well, but luckily I got too busy interviewing for jobs to
want to look for a lifestyle. send in my law school applications. If I had gone to law
school, I’d owe at least a hundred grand and I have a
I like waking up late, am most alert at night and like to
feeling I’d hate being a lawyer even more than I hated
be around people for a few hours a day (but not for too
consulting and grad school. At least consulting and grad
many) so comedy works for me. Try to figure out the
school were paying me money to be there, so it was
kind of lifestyle you want to live, and that might help
easier for me to get out of there without worrying about
you figure out what to do with your life.
enormous debt.
Time for more questions:
Don’t do more school unless they pay you, or
• Do you think you want to go to more school?
• Do you actually know what for? you’re sure you want to be in that profession.
• Do you have no idea, but think it sounds like a
smart plan? If you’re considering going to law school, please to god
be a paralegal for two years first, talk to and observe
the lawyers, then see if you still want to do it.
My point is:
Keep your options open, and when you’re not
sure, choose the option that pays you money.
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18. PASSION FINDING STRATEGIES
Alright that still didn’t work? How about:
I know you’re still struggling to find your passion, and no Imagine NOBODY cares.
matter how good of a book I write, this struggle will
probably take some time. Hopefully you’re at least I mean nobody. An asteroid hit the earth, and
getting some ideas. My goal is to get you aware of how
everyone you know is dead. Miraculously,
important passion is, and to help you start asking the
right questions so you can find your passion and put it
society is back to functioning like normal,
to work. minus everyone you know being dead.
Think of something really stupid you Would you keep doing what you’re currently
could decide to do with your life. doing?
Not suicide or becoming a drug addict, but something What would you do instead?
else that as soon as you think of it, your inner voice
says, “No way, that’s stupid.” What activity or career
would really piss off and disappoint your parents? I bet
you came up with some pretty good answers.
Now imagine having earned $100 million
doing the thing that would really piss off and
disappoint everyone in your support system.
Are you smiling yet? There’s your passion.
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19. PASSION FINDING STRATEGIES
1. _____________________________________________
2. _____________________________________________
Here’s another idea. Keep trying new stuff that sounds
interesting and see where it leads. 3. _____________________________________________
Always keep your brain open for 4. _____________________________________________
ways to turn that something 5. _____________________________________________
interesting into a career. Now, how many of these have you tried?
Also, every once in a while try something scary. Scary If you haven’t tried some of these five things,
means you’re veering off the path of least resistance. as soon as you finish this book, go try them!
My first time on stage, my hands were trembling and my If you’ve tried them, try to brainstorm how to make
voice was shaky, and I could barely read the jokes I
each of those five things a career.
wrote down. But when I got off stage, I had never felt
better. And I didn’t even get many laughs.
Here’s another question:
What are five things you would do if you
knew you’d succeed?
Write down five things.
Seriously, write it down.
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20. FACING REALITY
Then ask yourself, do you still want to do it?
Let’s discuss reality, and how it might punch you in the I used to want to be a snowboarding instructor because
face. I love teaching, snowboarding and nature. My family
You might love to paint but you have a serious concern: has gone to Vermont for three days every year for the
“What if I work really hard, and twenty years later, I still past ten years. It was my “quit corporate America and
suck at it? Or what if I’m really good but nobody become a snowboarding instructor” fantasy. Then I
recognizes it, and some hack with less talent gets all the snowboarded for seven straight days.
money and fame. I might as well not try and at least
By day five, I didn’t want to get out of bed, let
have a nice house.”
alone get on the slope.
If you haven’t had such a thought yet, I’m sure you will
in the near future. Hell I’ve had it about comedy lots of This leads to Ben’s number one rule of careers:
times. I’ll watch some comedians on TV and think, “This
isn’t funny or original, how is he on TV and not me?”
If you can’t do something ten
straight days and be happy doing it,
These are the wrong questions to
you shouldn’t make it a career.
be asking at this point.
But let’s say you pass that test, you might still suck in
That’s your negative adult voice talking. Here’s some twenty years. Here’s what you do:
better thought processes for you realists.
Try doing the activity for a year, then reevaluate.
Try doing the activity you like Have you noticed considerable improvement?
for ten straight days. And do you still like to do it?
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21. FACING REALITY
Can’t earn better than C’s at an Ivy League school?
Run for President of the United States.
If you can say yes to both, bust your ass for the next five
years. By that point, you should be able to honestly For example, in high school I thought I
answer:
wanted to be an NFL quarterback. So for four
“How close am I to making a living off of years, I worked really hard at becoming
this? And do I still want it?” better at football. Four years later, I learned
that I can’t even start as a high school
Make sure you’re still improving too.
quarterback, let alone an NFL one. See, that
By this point, if you’re not honestly getting much, much didn’t even take five years.
better, it might be a good time to quit, get a normal job,
and pop out some kids. Then hope your kids have more
talent than you… just kidding.
At this point, if you’re not close to making a living off
your passion, re-open your eyes to other possible
careers that are related to what you’ve been doing but
that you might be a little better at.
Not succeeding as a stand up comedian?
Maybe you should become a comedy writer.
Can’t get promoted past junior varsity football
coach? Try becoming an athletic director.
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22. FACING REALITY
The only time I was happy doing consulting was when I
spent two weeks in middle of nowhere Texas training a
You might be thinking, “This was all nice and dandy but I
hundred middle aged, high school dropout, warehouse
got bills to pay, especially those college loans coming
workers how to use a new scanning device. They’d come
due. I’m going to get a real job.”
in scared about learning something new and would
My first response? usually be thinking “what does this twelve year old
know?” But by the middle of the training they’d start to
I never once mentioned not having a “get it” and appreciate that someone was taking the
standard nine to five office job. time to teach them. It’s the only time I felt I made an
actual difference while being a corporate sellout. So if
Although these days, most of those jobs are eight to six, you can do that all the time, you’ll not only save your
or longer. So get an office job, but get one you actually soul, you’ll get to save a nice paycheck too.
like. I’m know they exist. If you think your heart is dead
set on being an accountant, that’s fine, but you love I made a similar point with my mom. She was saying
basketball too, so why not become an accountant for how having a PhD is vital, and I was like, “In your day to
the NBA instead of for the local hardware store? day life, who’s made more of an impact? Albert Einstein
or Jerry Seinfeld?” Ben one, mom zero.
But let’s say you’ve completely ignored me and got a
nice high paying job that you hate. Now what?
Figure out a way to make a difference
doing that job.
Make an actual impact.
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23. CONCLUSION
If you’re interested in watching me perform
So before this book ends, you’re probably wondering, comedy, check my website for my schedule.
what happened to me since I decided to drop out?
Most nights, I can get you in for no cover
Well, I spent the first month in Los Angeles, mostly charge if, at the door you tell them, “I
because I had already created some comedy shows at
dropped out of Caltech to become a
Caltech, and I didn’t want to let down the other
comedians by canceling the shows. So I spent my time comedian.”
booking gigs for when I’d get back to New York, as well
as writing this book, and writing new comedy material. It’ll sound really good, trust me.
Right now, I’m freelancing as a web designer, video
editor and small business consultant during the day
while doing comedy every night. I’ve also started giving
interactive motivational talks on the same subject you
just finished reading about, “How To Find Your Passion.”
This is my really complicated way of saying:
Ramen Noodles have never tasted so good!
If you’re interested in scheduling my
motivational talk, email me.
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24. ABOUT BEN
About Ben Rosenfeld: Special thanks to:
Hugh MacLeod
for allowing his wonderful and thought provoking
cartoons to be used throughout this book.
Please checkout his website at www.GapingVoid.com
Ben is a New York City based comedian and
motivational speaker. His passion is stand up comedy.
Ben also performs improv, writes and performs sketch
comedy, and runs a comedy blog that includes helpful
hints for new comedians, video critiques of his
performances and interviews with other comics.
Before realizing his passion for comedy, Ben was on the
middle class path to “success”. He worked as a
management consultant for a Fortune 500 company,
Accenture, and attended a PhD program in
Neuroeconomics at Caltech on a full scholarship.
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25. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
If my eBook struck a chord and got you BOOKS
thinking about your life, here are some Linchpin by Seth Godin
articles, videos and books from some very (view on Amazon) (my comments)
competent, smart people. These resources The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss
have influenced me on my path and I highly (view on Amazon)
recommend them to you on your journey. The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
(view on Amazon)
FREE RESOURCES
Ignore Everybody by Hugh MacLeod
How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod (view on Amazon)
(view pdf)
Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck
How To Stand Out by Seth Godin (view on Amazon)
(watch video) Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
(view on Amazon)
The Recession Proof Graduate by Charlie Hoehn
(view pdf) The 50th Law by Robert Greene and 50 Cent
(view on Amazon) (my comments)
Nurturing Creativity by Elizabeth Gilbert
(view video) Stumbling On Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
(view on Amazon)
Achieving Your Childhood Dreams by Randy Pausch
(view video) Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
(view on Amazon)
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