Pidgin
Purpose
Money, Status, and Da Third Ting You Really Working For
Most careers get built fo buy two tings: money and status. Da third ting is what you would still be doing once dose two stay handled, and saying um out loud is what make da next ten years compound.
Decide How Much Is Enough Befo You Get Dea
Name your enough befo you get close to um: one number, one title, o one condition, written down wit one date wen you going check um. If you decide um lata, right in da middle of winning, da line going move every time you reach um.
How Fo' Write Da Sentence You Like People Say About You
Da sentence people going use about you stay getting written already, one ordinary week at a time. Write yours in fifteen words, check um against how you actually wen spend last month, and you get one decision rule dat beat any five year plan.
What You Really Like, When Every Option Look Good
Start from evidence, not from imagination. Write down da last ten times you wen lose track of da clock and da last five things you wen say yes to right away, because what you really like show up inside dat record first.
How Much fo Give Back, and When fo Start
No get one moral number fo giving, but get one dat actually work: one percentage of your income you set one time, automate, and neva renegotiate. Picking um early change what money feel like long before da amount look impressive.
Da Calm After One Big Win, and What It Stay Telling You
You wen hit da number and you wen feel steady instead of electric. Dat's not one defect, dat's information: composure is what arriving feel like once you get practice at winning, and dat's what let you pick da next target on purpose.
How fo Compare Yourself to Somebody Ahead and Come Away Better
Compare methods, not outcomes. One outcome tell you where somebody wen land and nothing about how dey wen get dea, but one method you can copy dis week, so ask what dey wen do at your stage and take one habit.
Da Two Questions Dat Tell One Real Goal From One Borrowed One
One real goal survive when nobody stay watching. Ask if you would still like um if nobody ever wen find out you wen get um, and if you like da daily work or only da title at da end, cuz one borrowed goal fail both real fast.
Which Part of Your Work Goin Still Matter Ten Years From Now
Three things survive ten years: systems dat run without you, standards other people wen copy, and people who can now do something because of you. Deliverables almost never make da list, and dat change what you agree to on Monday.
Sponsor Somebody Dis Week, No Just Mentor Dem
One mentor give you advice, and one sponsor say your name in one room you not in. Dat one sentence move one career faster than one whole year of coffees, and it build your own reputation as da person who build people.
How fo Like Someting Real Bad Without Um Running Your Whole Life
Give da want one container, so it get everyting you get inside dea: da hours it get, da rooms it no can go inside, and da one relationship dat rank higher than um. Ambition inside one structure stay sharp fo twenty years.
Going Hard Afta Someting Big Witout Disappearing On Da People
Protect da attention, not da time. Sitting inside da room while you answering messages read like you not even dea to everybody else, so hold fewa commitments and hold um whole, starting wit da two people who get your undivided hours.
What You Would Build When Nobody Stay Watching
Da work you still going do with no audience, no title and no post after is da most reliable signal you get about what you actually value. One two-column exercise separate da real answer from da flattering one in ten minutes.
Playing One Ten Year Game Without Checking Da Score Every Day
Measure your inputs every week and your outcomes every quarter. Daily scorekeeping on one long project report mostly noise, and noise is what make capable people rewrite one good plan, so pick three inputs you control and look at dem on Friday.
How fo Thank Da People Who Wen Make You, While Dey Still Can Hear Um
Five or six people wen quietly decide how your life going go, and most of dem no mo any idea. Fo name dem take ten minutes, and fo tell dem take one specific memory, one sentence about what um wen change, and no ask attached.
Da Week After You Get Um Stay Da Week Fo Spend Um On Somebody Else
Spend da win while um still warm. Fo about two weeks your name carry mo weight in one room than usual, and saying somebody else name inside dat window cost you one sentence and buy you one reputation as da person who build up people.
Building Something Dat Outlast Your Name On Um
Anything built for carry your name gotta get defended forever. Anything built for run without um get adopted, copied and improved by people who neva even think about you, and dat's da only kine legacy dat survive.
How fo Change Your Mind About What You Like Without Feeling Like One Quitter
Separate da goal from da reason underneath um. Most changed minds stay da same reason wearing new clothes, so write da reason down and test dat instead, because da time you already wen spend stay spent either way.
Give Da Life Behind Your Career Equal Billing
Your career get one calendar, one review cycle and one plan, and da life behind um usually no get none of dat, which is why it lose every scheduling conflict. Give um da same three tings, in writing, on da same calendar.
Saying Da Big Goal Out Loud Without Feeling Shame
Say um as one direction, not one promise. Da sentence I stay working toward dis carry no claim you gotta defend and it bring help dat silence neva going bring, so pick one person and give dem one specific ting dey can do.
