The Stairway to Wisdom

Selfish losers take. Selfish winners build themselves so they can give. Prioritize your goals, protect your focus, create your wins — and let those wins create value for the people around you.

• There is a difference between selfish losers and selfish winners.
• Selfish losers take from others without creating value. Ze prioriteren zichzelf ten koste van hun team, bedrijf of familie en geven vervolgens anderen de schuld wanneer het misgaat. 
• Selfish winners invest in themselves so they can ultimately give more to others.
•  Ze geven zichzelf confidence, courage, clarity, time, space, focus and freedom to win.
• Putting yourself first is not automatically selfish in a negative sense. Het gaat erom waarom je jezelf prioriteit geeft en wat je vervolgens met die positie doet. 
• Your success should create value beyond yourself. Hoe sterker en succesvoller je wordt, hoe meer je uiteindelijk kunt betekenen voor je team, familie, bedrijf of andere mensen. 
• Unusual priorities create resistance. Zolang je doet wat als “normaal” wordt gezien, accepteert bijna iedereen het. Zodra je uitzonderlijke keuzes maakt die anderen niet begrijpen, wordt het sneller als egoïstisch bestempeld. 
• You cannot help everyone else before you can help yourself.
• You cannot create your own wins without prioritizing your own goals and dreams.
•  Daarom zijn een sterke NO-list en IDGAF muscle belangrijk: niet iedere verwachting, mening, uitnodiging of afleiding verdient toegang tot je tijd en energie. 
• The principle: Prioritize yourself not to take from others, but to become capable of giving more.

• Separate from what limits you, not automatically from the people around you. Choose your own path, accept its price, hold yourself to exceptional standards, and remain capable of trust and collaboration.
• Separate from fear, doubt & limiting beliefs
• Set higher standards
• Shut out the noise
• Choose your own life
• Trust your vision
• Accept that others may not understand
• Autonomy = accountability
• Greatness requires sacrifice
• Protect your time & energy
• Choose allies, not just friends
• Results validate difficult choices
• Don’t depend on external approval
• Separation ≠ isolation
• Stay open to collaboration
• High standards + respect for others
• Own your choices, price & results
• Never lose yourself to please others 
• Separate from what limits you, not automatically from the people around you. Choose your own path, accept its price, hold yourself to exceptional standards, and remain capable of trust and collaboration.

Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill 

- Invictus - 

I am the master of my fate

I am the captain of my soul 

William Ernest Henley 

Er is een principe dat bekendstaat als de wet van de economie. Dit is meer dan een theorie, het is een universele wet die door niemand kan worden gebroken. Wanneer iemand gaat jagen, zoekt hij een jachtgebied waar voldoende wild is. Als je op jacht gaat naar rijkdom, geldt dezelfde regel. Onthoud dit principe goed. 

Je wordt wat je gelooft. Niet wat je hoopt, wat je wenst, of wat je wilt. Je wordt waar je diep vanbinnen echt van overtuigd bent.

Written by Rudyard Kipling in 1895, focuses on stoicism, leadership, maturity, and personal integrity.

“If—” by Rudyard Kipling is a poem about growing into a strong, balanced and resilient person. It describes qualities such as staying calm when others lose control, trusting yourself without becoming arrogant, handling both success and failure, continuing after setbacks, and remaining true to yourself.

Its central message is:

If you can keep your head, persevere through difficult times and remain true to who you are, you will grow into a strong and well-rounded person.

The poem is often understood as a father giving advice to his son, but its message applies to everyone. In your text, the idea of continuing when you have everything and when you have nothing fits especially well.

When you lay down and can't get up again. When you lose courage. When you feel like lying down and not getting up again. Recite this. This can give you what you need to keep going. 

William Ernest Henley

1849 – 1903

Out of the night that covers me,   
   Black as the Pit from pole to pole,   
I thank whatever gods may be   
   For my unconquerable soul.   

In the fell clutch of circumstance 
   I have not winced nor cried aloud.   
Under the bludgeonings of chance   
   My head is bloody, but unbowed.   

Beyond this place of wrath and tears   
   Looms but the Horror of the shade, 
And yet the menace of the years   
   Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.   

It matters not how strait the gate,   
   How charged with punishments the scroll,   
I am the master of my fate:
   I am the captain of my soul.

https://poets.org/poem/invictus

What I Now See. From the book #Success, How teens can create their own brilliant future. Author Emma Aaron, 15 years old. 

This chapter marks "the end" of the old you and the beginning of your new adventure. Whatever you aren't satisfied with in your current (soon to be old) life, whether it be your grades, your friends, your habits, or anything else, is about to improve, and your struggles will soon be just a distant memory. In this short book you will learn everything you need to know to have total control of your life and create whatever it is that you want from your future. 

Some W.I.N.S. I had from the first chapter;

Being the best you can be is the best you can do for others. The power of setting a good example. Improving is not enough. Celebrate, validate small improvements during the process is the best you can do. 

Learn from people that are doing things better than you. 

Succes is the sum of all validated improvements. 

#SUCCESS

The Masterkey to Riches & The habit of going The Extra Mile" - The Masterkey to Riches, by the author of Think and Grow rich, Napoleon Hill who made his own fortune using the secrets revealed in this book. The world famous- philosophy of personal achievement based on the Andrew Carnegie Formula for money-making.