One current and one future Wall Street Journal bestselling author
A few days ago, I met Gary Vaynerchuk, whose book Crush It got on the bestseller list according to the Wall Street Journal, and it was great to hear what he had to say about various topics of entrepreneurship, social media, and how to work with one’s passion. He had a huge room on the second floor of the bookstore full of people glad to listen in during his speech and following question/answer session. There are a couple of points from the discussion that I would like to bring up here.
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The following is the first video I have posted on here, other than the running video I posted a month or two ago showing me running through a trail path. I started it off like Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV, author of the book Crush It(affiliate link), starts off his Wine Library videos, because I got the idea to convert the name “Wine Library TV” to what you will hear near the end of the video. After a few tries, I got the hang of not watching myself in the video on the screen, and instead look at the camera light at the top of the laptop.
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Lots of trees
The next topic at hand in the outdoor mountain hiking trail adventure series is that of setting goal points. When you are performing a task, you need to have signs along the way that you are getting somewhere, in the form of stoppage points where you can recognize that you accomplished part of your goal. Your goals that don’t have these points written or thought of are much more likely to not progress, because your interest to continue will subside with no success feedback coming in.
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The great mountain to conquer
This is part two of the outdoor mountain hiking trail adventure series. Here I discuss how realistic optimism helped in my functioning on the trip, and may as well have helped all of us on the adventure. I added the adjective “realistic” because there is a popular assumption that optimism comes from a naive sense of ignoring problems and being blissful while things around start to deteriorate. While that type of optimism ignores reality, what I will be discussing here takes into account the positive and negative variables that are present.
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Here, in this first post of the series, I will be discussing how my lack of punctuality affected the trip, what you gain by altering the way you interact with time, and the mindset you can use to obtain punctuality in your daily activities, or to realize what not being punctual represents.
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I went on an outdoor mountain hiking trail adventure with my friends. I will relate the events of it to concepts in various articles I will write in a series of posts in upcoming days. This will be the first article series I have done, and I knew I would do it when we were worried coming down the mountain if we would make it back in good health because we had 2 hours more to go down and it was already near darkness, and at that time, I said that if we made it back okay, I would be writing articles on the various topics that came up in my mind through the adventure. I’ve got some pictures of us during the hiking trip that I will sprinkle throughout the series. This series will including articles on:
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Whatever it is that is difficult to you, or that you feel would be difficult, or that you avoid, is what you want to be doing right now. The casual and leisurely activities are what you will regret giving your time to. This may seem obvious, but my focus here is to point out the lack of value in those leisurely, or less intensive, activities. We often see short-term gains from spending time working on them, but these short-term gains are not actually there, and realizing this serves to negate the motivation to take part in them.
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Why should you be humble? Cockiness has its benefits, but at the same time, if you are overconfident, and then make an error, which we all do from time to time, your error will come out looking worse than it normally would, because you will be torn down for putting out extra energy to bolster your attitude, instead of using that energy to avoid the mistake in the first place.
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