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What advice would you give to your youngest self?
Makers, we all make mistakes when we work on projects. If there were a time you can go back, what would you change and what advice you give yourself?
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@falak_sher I am guilty of this 100%. Procrastination kills your chance of success in this highly competitive environment.
@falak_sher I am guilty of this still. But I like to set a short time frame a week or two and launch a prototype by then.
@falak_sher I feel you! I ignored all my side projects in 2022. One of my goals for 2023 is to stop procrastinating and get going on all those projects! đ€
Learn basic of programming, so you can do basic things without anyone external. That was important 15 years ago, now there are a lot of no-code tool.
Learn to get rest and sleep enough.
Balance is a key âŻïž
@stefan_smiljkovic even just being solid with basic Excel functions like IFS, HLOOKUP, INDIRECT, etc is a huge advantage
To choose my environment and friends with a better focus on what I want to do next.
To try things fast and get feedback early.
Life is numbers. There's no way around it. From your social security number to your credit score, your college GPA to your 401k, how many children do you have, how many divorces do you have, how much is your house worth? These are all numbers.. My younger self would have said love can pay the bills.
Stop thinking like a broke founder and start thinking like an investor. Use spreadsheets, calculate ROI, invest money into multiple asset classes.
Start with a strong financial position, make small bets and learn quickly. Be patient, you only get the real benefit with consistent effort. No need to go 100% go big or go home. 50% will do, even 25% is better than nothing.
Business is like cooking, you can't expect to cook on high-flame and not burn your dish. Don't cook hungry. Don't start a business when broke.
You're running your own race. Don't look at other lanes, don't fret about people ahead or behind you. Just stay focused, and keep moving forward.
Manage your energy better than you manage your time. If you have time but no energy, you canât perform well. On the other hand, if you donât have time but you have the energy, you may be able to get more things done in less time.
At one point, I was a bit too obsessed with getting things done that I tried to fill every waking hours with activities, be it posting on Twitter, creating a graphic on Canva or answering questions on forum. It took me a while to realise that some of those activities contribute very little to the bigger goals. I was doing them for my own self-fulfilling prophecy - I felt good and productive.
To stop drinking. So many lost opportunities as a result of bad mood, hangovers, days in Vegas, and so on.
@phantomus_team I quit drinking, smoking cigarettes and vaping for 3-1/2 years and it was the best change for my life I ever made. Mental clarity, healthy skin and weight control, more natural energy and excitement with less depression or anxiety. I finally excelled at getting back into my education I went back to college and decided I was mature enough to handle drinking again for the âole college experienceâ. Within two months it turned into binge drinking, no money, missing classes and blackout âmemoriesâ with people that werenât my friends so I immediately quit again.
TLDR; Take care of yourself and if you think you have an issue or want to make a healthy change in your life quit those bad habits for 6 months and watch how quickly your life can positively change. Itâs incredible and youâll never get that time back that you lost to mindlessly binging.
@justin_gardner Thanks Justin, and I did. Every thing you metioned, happened - the quality if life, work, and everything in between increased right away, canât share how much because its a lot over the past year.
@phantomus_team congratulations, itâs amazing what you can begin to accomplish when you arenât using your free time just drinking.
@phantomus_team I think moreover - alcohol has a huge impact on your hormones and your general state of balance. Clarity is key when you're trying to kill it in your career!
@phantomus_team @justin_gardner I came here to make a shitpost about "youngest self", but this was a genuinely touching thread to come across. Sometimes the internet doesn't suck
@angezanetti How do you go about pre-orders? How do you get the traction to do pre-orders?
@evan_sellers Describe your value proposition clearly (why you built it, who's this for, what's the beniftsâŠ) put this on a Gumroad page.
Guess a pricing and make a 50% discount
Then share this page where your potentials customers are (look for communities)
That the right institution you study at can exponentially increase your knowledge, expand your network and expose you to ideas, concepts and theories that help you break plateaus. But that's the exciting part of it - so work hard towards your goals, surround yourself with people who are 10x smarter than you and be absolutely ok with failing.
Do not wait for inspiration, just start doing at least small steps. and not to be afraid to grow older - cause all the fun is just starting:)
@aureliovolle I rate some of my success in business to running guilds on WoW, just like running a company when done well!
@aureliovolle @matthew_browne1 I should have spent more of my adult years gaming... that's where I went wrong.
Seek profit in both money and time, equally.
Seek satisfaction first in everything you do.
Remember you'll die, every day.
probably to not care what others are telling you to do and also to start following your passion earlier even if it is must 30 mins a day.
Don't assume people know what they're doing or talking about, ask probing question to help articulate the problem and the stated solutions. Be kind and think of your coworkers as people not problems to solve or avoid.
Be patient. An old man taught me that 1 year ago.
Patient to do everything. One by one. Big things start from many small things. So don't quit, man!
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