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Planning Isn’t Progress

Planning Isn’t Progress

Planning Isn’t ProgressJulia Alexander

Are you stuck in motion or taking real action? This article explains the difference - and why planning feels productive but secretly keeps you stuck.

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How to engineer luck

How to engineer luck

How to engineer luckJulia Alexander

Luck has a surface area. Increase your luck surface area and increase its chance of finding you.

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Your Potential: Don’t “Find” It—Build It

Your Potential: Don’t “Find” It—Build It

Your Potential: Don’t “Find” It—Build ItJulia Alexander

Potential isn’t your birth right. It’s the result of the choices you make.

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Someone’s already done it. Good. Do it anyway.

Someone’s already done it. Good. Do it anyway.

Someone’s already done it. Good. Do it anyway.Julia Alexander

Why “Someone’s Already Done It” Is the Worst Reason Not to Start...

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Not being first didn’t stop them

Not being first didn’t stop them

Not being first didn’t stop themJulia Alexander

Think your idea isn’t worth pursuing because someone else has already done it? Imagine a world without Google, Harry Potter, Dominos or Facebook.

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“We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.”

“We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.”

“We don’t rise to the level of our goals, we fall to the level of our systems.”Julia Alexander

Have you ever looked at someone chipping away at something you want to and thought, “Easy for them - they just have more time/ fewer kids / less demands than I do!”.

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