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"True happiness beats in your chest. Work out what you like to do best and try to do more of that. Don't torture yourself pondering the purpose of life. It's here, it's now & it won't last forever, so enjoy it."

An old mentor

"The effect you have on others, is the most valuable currency you have" 


Jim Carrey

“‎Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of others, instead, seek what they sought.” 

Matsuo Basho

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer." 

Niccolo Machiavelli

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth" 

Muhammad Ali

“Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up.” 

Brene Brown

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”  

Anne Lamott

“Don’t believe everything you think” 

BJ Miller

“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.”

Chuck Palahniuk

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Quotes for better humans

3 questions I ask when reviewing my career goals 👇

1. Why am I doing this?

2. Is this helping me?

3. How is this helping me?

We often make plans and follow them even if the plan is no longer useful.

Challenge yourself to ensure you’re on the right path.

Times change, life changes and you change. Don’t be afraid to reset and redirect.

The Step-By-Step Career Review Framework

Success is a journey, not a destination.

Use these 3 habits to improve your career in the next 100 days.

1. Build out your network

It is often who you know, not what you know that opens the right doors.

Harsh, but true.

We're social beings. Build relationships, trust and connection for future success.

2. Establish what you don't want to do

We tend to focus on the thing we want with goal-setting.

This doesn't always work.

Instead, try defining the things you 100% don't want to do. What are the things you fear doing forever?

Define your fears to get closer to what you want.

3. Create learning opportunities

Everyone overestimates what they can do in 1 week, but underestimate what they can do in 1 year.

Investing in your knowledge and skills is a no-brainer.

They're the currency we all use to build our dream lifestyle.

100 days is not a long time.

Just over 3 months. And, they will come and go whether you do something or not.

A lot can change in 100 days, friend.

3 Habits To Improve Your Career In The Next 100 Days

The Simple 5-Step Framework To Launch Your Podcast

Before you even think about buying equipment.

You need to do the following:

1.  Identify a list of common problems people face.
2.  Create topic episodes on those themes (niche + broad).
3.  Collate tools and frameworks to share. Invite an SME if it makes sense.
4.  Record 3 episodes to test.
5.  Publish these to a closed group and collect data.

1.  Buy a microphone from Amazon - nothing fancy. Blue Yeti mic under £100 works.
2.  Download the Anchor App https://anchor.fm/. Edit and distribute your podcast.
3.  Want this internal only? Use the anchor app to edit and download.

You now have your very first blueprint to build a podcast.


The Simple 5-Step Framework To Launch Your Podcast

When you stop playing the role of a drone in building your career. Better opportunities will become available.

So many people do the same thing and get 0% progress. But yet, 99% of us continue to do the same.

Do these 3 actions to stop being a drone ↓

1. Build a network = the most undervalued tool in your career toolkit.

2. Show your work = use social media, create a website, and contribute to communities. You must show not tell.

3. Focus deeply on fewer goals = bigger results. Don't be fooled into doing 20+ things.

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/_Rsvenson/i9cGRy6

Stop Using The Drone Approach In Your Ca

I built my newsletter audience from 0 → 2000 subscribers as a one-person show.

These are 5 things I wish I had known before starting my newsletter that would have saved me 500 hours 👇

1. How to build a clean and quality landing page (invest lots of time here).

2. Preview early editions with your close network and ask for them to share with their network.

3. You need a clear statement on the problem your newsletter solves. This can change over time FYI.

4. Be specific on target audience and topics. Being too broad was confusing. Who are you serving?

5. Automation is your friend. Tools like @buffer, @typefully and @zapier amplified my output and halved my time spent doing it.

I hope these help

You can read the unrolled version of this thread here: https://typefully.com/_Rsvenson/zQVAK9e

These 5 Things Saved Me 500 Hours Building My Newsletter From 0 > 2000 Subs

When I reflect on what most helped my internal brand. It was never my job title.

I can’t recall a time when I said I’m the ‘L&D manager’.

I didn’t want my brand to be my job title. What do they even mean anyway?

I took a different approach.

I built a brand by telling people what I actually do and showing them too.

Instead of a title, I built a USP.

Mine went like this 👇

“I build the learning and performance framework to enable people to do their best work and grow their career”.

I became known for what I do, not my title.

Here’s some pointers to build your USP:

1. What is it that you specifically bring to the table?

2. Think about your works impact and value for companies and clients.

To get your profile noticed and grow your career in a company or as a freelancer, you must establish a USP.

I talk about this a lot in the “How to win in the Careerverse’ playbook too: https://stealthesethoughts.com/how-to-win-in-the-careerverse-a-toolkit-for-high-performance/

Thank you for attending my Ted Talk.

Dump Titles, Build A USP

Building a digital product is easy.

The barrier to entry has never been lower.

But that’s not the problem.

The problem is how much you care about others opinions.

It cripples you.

You wonder what ‘they’ will say.

You become a prisoner to others thoughts.

So, building something is the easy part.

The infrastructure to create and distribute is too simple.

The hard part is getting out of your own way.

The lesson here?

Believe in the enormity of the possible.

It is a game of mind over matter, folks.

Spend time on not self-sabotaging.

The Mind Games

A simple tip for building your learning strategy in 2023.

If you try to do everything for everybody. 𝐘𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐝𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲.

Focus on the 3-5 things (max) that will produce the biggest value for your goal.

Budgets are tight right now, 𝙨𝙤 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩:

Commit to 20 things in 2023, realise that’s not possible, drop half of them through the year and do what’s left badly because you spent so much time stretched on all 20.

𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝… Get specific on the most valued-add tasks that will improve performance.

Whether that’s with hiring, retention or capability.

Whatever your company needs to improve.

Be brutal and prioritise what will deliver the most value.

No more than 3-5 goals! Then double down on these to deliver growth.

Focus on big plays, not small, medium and big plays combined.

How To Build A Better Learning Strategy

Your networking all wrong on social media.

And it’s killing your career prospects.

You need to give without expectation.

Share thoughtful responses to comments.

DM people to say “thank you” and “this was great”.

Networking is about relationships, and they are a two-way street.

You won’t get far with “Can I book 20 mins to talk about my product/career with you?”

Would you do that to someone you met in the offline world?

Take time to genuinely build a connection with others.

Move from ‘this person can do x for me’ to ‘what can I do for this person to show my skills, get on their radar and learn from them’.

I have lots of DM’s I never answer.

Why?

Because they’re not about me or sharing thoughtful comments.

They all focus on what someone thinks I can do for them even though we’ve never met.

Some of the best advice I’ve received is “Start as you mean to go on”.

So, don't shoot yourself in the foot.

> Engage meaningfully

> Give without expectations

> Share thoughtful and value add content

> Give help before you ask for it

90% of people won’t do this.

Perhaps you will.