A core aspect of motivation

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

No matter what one thinks of Apple and their products, Steve Jobs was a genius!

This quote is especially important for entrepreneurs and bosses. Why? Because they have to motivate either themselves or their employees or both.

You do not have to push your employees to be awesome as long as they work on awesome projects. If they have some freedom and work on interesting projects they will gladly rip themselves apart for your company.

Same goes for yourself: Always chose awesome over mediocre! If there is the possibility for an awesome project that might seem too big at the first glance better take a shot at it than step down and do a simpler one. You can do it and the reward will be waking up every morning motivated and pumped to start the day!

Keep awesome and interesting projects on your bucket list in order to make your life fun and interesting, both for you and the people around you.

Don’t settle. Don’t be okay with mediocre. Go for awesome, go for legendary, go for your dreams no matter how crazy they may be.

See you at the top!

/phil

About new ideas

Never touch a running system? I say improvement is always possible! And:

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower

Steve Jobs

You have to think of new concepts and try them out constantly. Eventually you will make your world a better place by improving things in general.

/phil

Trust, and it will make all the difference

With “dots” Steve refers to the moments that mark the way your life goes.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something, your god, destiny, life, karma, whatever. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road, will give you the confidence to follow you heart even when it leads you off the well worn path. and that will make all the difference.

Steve Jobs

/robin

No need to push yourself

If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.

Steve Jobs

This genius is so damn right! Anyone who had just a brief experience of this “pull” knows what he is talking about!

For everyone else: Find your passion!

/phil

There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Remembering you’re going to die, is the best way I know, to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

/phil