Good decisions often can lead to undesired outcomes

Good decisions often can lead to undesired outcomes. Good decisions are calculations based on what you know right now. If the world turns out differently than the data you had indicated, that’s not a bad decision. A bad decision isn’t based on available facts. It falls into traps like sunk costs or peer pressure. A bad decision is an error in judgment or skill. Good decision makers, when faced with the same options as you had, would not have done what you did.

Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful

The entire self-help industry in one sentence: Do what makes mornings exciting and nights peaceful. Will this make me excited to wake up? Will this let me sleep in peace? Everything that fails both tests is noise.

Focus requires subtraction

Every choice is a brushstroke. No single stroke creates a masterpiece, but eventually the portrait emerges. Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny. The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal. Focus requires subtraction.

You don’t have to be the loudest

Don’t give people having a bad day the power to ruin your day. You don’t have to be the loudest in the room. Just be the one everyone listens to when it goes quiet.

If you don’t do the small things well

If you don’t do the small things well, they’ll never trust you to do the big things. Remember that. Everything you do matters- act accordingly. You can always choose to be a victim or a victor, but you can never be both. Life gets a lot easier when you just accept that life isn’t always fair.

Each person carries an invisible backpack

Each person carries an invisible backpack full of unfinished tasks. These things can weigh on you, especially the ones that you feel like you should do but know you won't make time for. There are two ways to lighten the load: finish the task or let it go. Give yourself permission to stop worrying about the things you're never going to do. What's weighing down your backpack that needs to be released?

The Ability to Reset

A skill to master: The Ability to Reset, Fast. 

Have a bad moment? Feel it, and reset

Have bad feedback? Feel it, and reset

If you can contain a bad moment for 10 minutes and not let it consume your day, mood, and productivity, it will change your life. Reset!