• Ignore sunk costs

    What happened yesterday already happened. It’s a gift and an asset from your previous self. You don’t have to accept if you don’t want to.

    It’s harder to change careers if you spent years in school getting a degree. But the correct approach is to ignore it, and change if the new thing will have a better payoff.

  • Top of my to-do list

    Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think; cultivate friendships; be happy.

  • Systems > goals

    Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous pre-success failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.

  • Valuing your time

    No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. Set a high personal hourly rate, and stick to it. Factor your time into every decision.

    You should be too busy to ‘do coffee,’ while still keeping an uncluttered calendar.

    A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to do great things – whether you’re a musician or entrepreneur or investor – you need free time and a free mind.