What makes you credible?

Is it your education?

Is it your experience?

The quality of work you deliver?

Your upbringing?

Your family background?

Your character?

Your mindset?

What do people value you for?

Look at these and double down on your areas of credibility.

Do you lack formal education? Does anyone care? If not, stop worrying and get on with it.

Do you focus on your strengths?

Or do you focus on your weaknesses?

Where do you think an investment pays off more?

Do you have a team?

Or are you a one person show?

Can you trust others?

If you can, then delegate your weaknesses.

Contractors or team members, it does not matter.

Get your weaknesses to the point, where it is no more a liability.

No more than that.

You have an opportunity.

You are unsure if you can pull it off.

What do you do?

Do you take a leap of faith?

Do you trust in yourself?

What is there to lose?

What is there to gain?

Sometimes all you have is a hunch and trust in your capabilities.

Take that leap, grasp that opportunity and try your best.

How do people seem to you?

Maybe some seem happy?

Maybe some seem to be grumpy?

Maybe some seem boring?

Whatever a person seems to be on the outside,

they all have their own story.

Have those conversations.

Peel back the outer shells.

Don't judge what you see.

Can you communicate too much?

Can you communicate too little?

Which is worse? Too much or too little?

How do you know where the sweet spot lies?

Communication is critical in any relationship.

Business, personal or family.

Learn to communicate, before it is too late.

Are you running away from something?

Why are you running away?

How is that going for you?

What do you need, so you can tackle it?

The thing will always catch up to you.

Escape-ism is not a solution.

It can help get some breathing space but beware of doing it too long.

How do others perceive you?

How does this affect you?

Is this important to you?

Do you let this affect your actions?

Does it change who you are?

We have no control over other people.

We cannot read their minds either.

Stay true to yourself and focus on your path.

Are you happy?

What makes you happy?

What stops you?

Good friends will make you happy.

Forgiving people will make you happy.

To make others happy will make you happy.

Gratitude will make you happy.

Following a purpose in life will make you happy.

Don't buy that fancy care...

When do you say yes?

When do you say no?

Every yes brings with it a hundred nos.

Saying yes is expensive, so make it worth it.

Once you have said yes, it is often hard to get out.

Yes is like your time a limited and finite resource.

Treat it accordingly.

You have a conversation...

Do you use neutral language?

Or do you connotate positively or negatively?

When you connotate, do you notice people getting defensive?

How well do people hear what you say?

How fluid are your conversations?

Try to use neutral language if you want information to get across.

What is success?

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate the beauty;

To find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do you imagine your future self?

How you will behave.

How you will feel.

How you will dress and move.

What you will be doing.

Whom you will be around?

Why wait for the future?

Why not be like this right now?

What do you need to do to make it happen?

When is it time to let go?

That non-performing investment?

That unpleasant relationship?

That anger towards someone?

That anger towards yourself?

That regret?

Life will move on and so should we.

Learn to identify the things to let go of quickly.

Life will be much better.

Do you know someone with a mental illness?

Depression, narcissism, burnt out, schizophrenia, etc.?

How do you judge their behaviour? How do you treat them?

Does your perspective change once you know they are ill?

People can behave very strangely.

Sometimes its due to illness.

Due to an illness they might not be able to behave differently.

Have compassion, but set your boundaries nevertheless.

Do you take the first step?

Or do you wait for others to do so?

What is there to fear?

Taking the first step can make things possible.

Without it, there might be no opportunity.

Thus, there is nothing to lose.

Take that first step.

Are you sure they got it?

Did you make yourself clear?

Did the other party understand your reasoning?

Everyone gets the strategy, right?

It serves to double down.

After you say it, send a written message.

Then ask the others to explain it back to you.

After 6 months, check if people are still on track.

Then check again.

Are you aware of your feelings before a conversation?

Can you place them accurately?

What do you feel about the other person?

What do you feel about the topic?

What do you feel about having the conversation?

What do you feel about yourself?

Being able to discern your feelings into these areas is crucial.

If not, you will not be able to address the issues.

Do you act upon your gut feeling?

Is it instinct you act upon?

Or is it intuition?

Instinct is our primal urge.

Fear, anger, anxiety and other feelings govern our instincts.

Intuition is your well of experience.

Before acting upon your gut feeling, try to discern if it is instinct or intuition.

Try not to act on instinct, but on intuition.

Friendship or business?

Which is more important to you?

Or do you like to combine the two?

Doing business well with friends is hard.

Just as hard as with family.

If it works it can be amazing.

If it doesn‘t the friendship often breaks.

Be cautious of business with good friends, its a risk.