Mind Hacks

  • “Here, I made this.” – Seth Godin
  • “What’s the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” – Gary Keller
  • “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Simplify to amplify.” –
  • “It Is What It Is.” –
  • “To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
  • “Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • I am enough.
  • “Real artists ship.” – Steve Jobs
  • “If we teach as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey
  • “Things that are easy to do are just as easy not to do.” – Jeff Olson
  • What’s happening?
  • What just happened?
  • “How shall I think about this?” – George Mutale
  • “This changes everything.”
  • I live here.
  • Other people live here.
  • All of nature lives here.
  • Decide
  • What’s going to happen?
  • “Do you have a big enough Why?”
  • Copy
  • You don’t have to do anything
  • Can you Copy?
  • “Who we think we are is why we do what we do. We live in our stories, and we live according to them.” – Thomas Asacker
  • “What will make today exciting?” – George Mutale
  • “Count your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.” – ?
  • “My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
  • What is your strongest message?
  • “To be able to process the signals in spite of the noise, that’s the point.” – George Mutale
  • “No one will truly invest in you, but you.” – Tasha Eurich
  • Grow, and build on
  • What does freedom look like?
  • “Does it matter?”
  • “Does it add value?”
  • “Change is the point.” – Seth Godin
  • “Disconnect yourself from the outcome.” – Julianne Harvey
  • “If there were no limits or restrictions, what would you be doing right now?” – George Mutale
  • “We all become the stories we tell ourselves.” – Tom Asacker
  • “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “You are your process.” – Jim Benson
  • “Flexibility trumps perfection.” – David Allen
  • “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” – David Allen
  • “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
  • “Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.” – Bo Bennett
  • “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford
  • “What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.” – Robert McKee
  • “If it’s finite, it’s possible.” – George Mutale
  • “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • “The mind is the worst place to store things.” – George Mutale
  • “If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today.” – Benjamin Franklin
  • “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” – Pablo Picasso
  • “Becoming is better than being.” – Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
  • “We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage.” – Abraham Maslow
  • “When it comes to solving my own problems, I’m an inside trader.” – George Mutale
  • “Success is hacking your mind and finally figuring out what works for you.” – George Mutale
  • Today just has to be better than yesterday.
  • “This too shall pass.” – ?
  • Seek clarity.
  • “90% percent of everything is crap.” – Sturgeon’s revelation
  • “The customer is the most important part of the production line.” – W. Edwards Deming
  • “Value trumps cool. Period.” – @neoinnovate
  • “…don’t confuse your to do list or your outputs without taking into account what the outcomes of that to do list are there to achieve.” – Wil Reynolds
  • “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.” – Samuel Johnson
  • “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” – Donald Knuth
  • “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  • “As hard as it may be to believe this, there’s only ever one best thing to do next.” – George Mutale
  • Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY
  • “Do. Or do not. There is no try. – Yoda”
  • “Deploy code to production everyday.” – George Mutale
  • Plan, Do, Check, Act/Adapt
  • “Measure twice, cut once.”
  • The 5 Whys
  • If it was perfect, what would it look like?
  • How hard can it be?
  • “Make easy things easy and hard things possible.” – Larry Wall
  • No job is so important, and no service is so urgent, that we cannot take time to perform our work safely.” – Bell System
  • “No” is a complete sentence. – Anne Lamott
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao-tzu
  • “Expenses rise to meet income.” – Parkinson’s Law
  • “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Parkinson’s Law
  • “Do you know how I know I’m not doing too many projects? I still watch TV.” – George Mutale
  • “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow, Maslow’s hammer
  • “If you were only able to develop one product, what would it be?” – George Mutale
  • “Who do you think you are?”, “Who are you?”
  • Lower your expectations.
  • Lower your expectations further.
  • Show me how this is complicated
  • “It cannot be about knowing it all, there’s always more to know.” – George Mutale
  • “It cannot be about remembering it all, for what we don’t use we lose.” – George Mutale