How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

If you want success, figure out the price, then pay it. When you decide to be successful in a big way, it means you acknowledge the price and you are willing to pay for it. I can’t change the fact that success requires a lot of work. But if you learn to appreciate the power of systems over goals, it might lower the price of success just enough to make it worth a go.

The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time with your family and friends. If you neglect your health or your career, you slip into the second category – stupid – which is a short slide to becoming a burden on society.  Generous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best. Once all of my personal needs were met, my thoughts automatically turned to how I could make the world a better place. I assume some or even most successful people started out selfishly, but success changes that. It is not a coincidence that Brad Pitt is helping to build homes after the Hurricane Katrina disaster or that Bill Gates is one of the most important philanthropists of all time. Success does that.

If we are able to pursue our selfish objectives and be successful at it, our focus will turn outwards. It is an extraordinary feeling.

We want many things in life such as health, financial freedom, accomplishment, a great social life, travel, family and more. But we have limited time, how then are we able to prioritise? The main key metric is personal energy. How do we maximise it? By eating right, exercising, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep. Have something in your life that makes you excited to wake up.

Be the cheerful person who is full of energy, and lift the people around you. It will improve your social life, love life and family life. Develop a calm, focused energy and be in a good mood.

Why do I blog? it gives me energy and time.

Focus on energy. It is a simple word that captures a mind-boggling array of complicated happenings. What are energy killers? Shopping? Shopping is simply exhausting for me.

Organising your life around the concept of personal energy is useful. Managing your personal energy is like managing budgets ina company. IN biz, every financial decision in one department is connected to others. Ideally, you want to manage your personal energy for the long term and the big pic.

I learned the above from this book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.