This is part 2 of a 7-letter series about creating more opportunities in life and business. I’m doing this because I learned about building a business online the hard way. It started with my first business. I tinkered around with an app for almost a year. I paid a developer and a designer. We worked […]
Make this your #1 task – always be attracting opportunities. You deserve to have options and live a more fulfilling life. If you don’t know how to help people, you’ll struggle to find purpose. Purpose is a combination of fueling personal growth and making a contribution to the life of people around you. I’m eternally […]
Trust makes everything in life and business easier. I was on my couch on a Friday evening when I reached out to a friend of mine. We hadn’t spoken in a while. As we caught up, he mentioned: “Oh, aren’t you writing a book or something.” I was a few weeks into my crowdfunding campaign […]
Your everyday ordinary life + the unique insights you have = extraordinary story. One of my first “viral posts” on LinkedIn happened about 5 years ago. I wrote about publishing my book. I got hundreds of reactions. It felt good. I posted the next day. It got 2 reactions. That’s when I realized, if I […]
Your story is your biggest point of leverage. I had an interesting insight recently where insights happen the most – the shower. As I rinsed off sweat from the gym, my thoughts swerved around how companies struggle to hire, train, and retain good talent. Then my thoughts bent the corner and it clicked…..whoa. Insight: “If […]
You have a brand whether you like it or not. Did you choose it or was it assigned to you? Ten years ago, I strolled to find a seat in the classroom on the sunny Stanford Business School campus on a Saturday afternoon. This weekend had a few different characters tackling the challenging topic of […]
If you don’t know what finished looks like, you’ll never finish. This is exactly the problem people have with standing out. “I know I want to write but I don’t fully know what to write about?” This question came up quite often when I coached a few people on how to write manuscripts for their […]
Sales is king but it sits on the throne of these three forces. I loved the smell of fresh magazines. In the 2010s, as an engineer flying out of the Austin airport, I’d have a breakfast burrito in one hand, while I scanned through the bookstore’s magazines. My favorites were the business and entrepreneur ones. […]
There’s a podcast host I’ve been following for about 6 years now. I came across his podcast about writing back in 2019. His show voyeurs over entrepreneurship, creativity, culture, and writing. I’ve been a guest on his show twice now. But then a month ago, he wrote an article on substack about Generation X (GenX) […]
I write these letters to gain more perspective, improve my communication skills, and help others do the same. This takes me to a story that happened in my career… I thought I’d played my cards right at work. I had taken my career into my own hands, showed what I had achieved, and proved my […]