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• Everything is good, but it's your job to find out why.

• I was studying marketing, but my peers were landing real marketing internships. So I did too, but failure led to entrepreneurship. • I struggled monetizing my 1st startup, but my peers were landing real jobs. So I did too. • My LinkedIn job extended my visa, but my peers were landing real marketing jobs. So I did too. • My HubSpot marketing job was great, but my peers were building startups, so I did too. • My brother and I created chopcast, but my peers were hiring real teams, so we did too. • We built a team and sold services, but my peers were building real SaaS products, so we did too. • We had a service AND a SaaS, but my peers were securing investment to build real companies, so we did too. • We raised (a tiny bit) and grew, but my peers were already selling their companies for real money... — The peers continue to do great things, but I already chose to settle. It's only when I settled did I realize I already had everything I wanted and needed. So what's next? I've decided to part ways with chopcast and run a company of one.

M, T • 6:10 – wake up • 6:30 – 11:45 (breakfast, mobility, abs, spin, mind Hadi) • 12:15 – 13:30 Deep Work slot 1 • 13:30 – 15:00 Sales Meetings • 15:00 – 16:45 D.W. slot 2 • 16:45 – Pickup Hadi

W-F • 6:10 – wake up • 6:10 – 8:30 (breakfast, mobility, mind Hadi) • 9:00 – 9:45 (Gym/Swim) • 10:00 – 10:15 (Post W.O meal) • 10:15 – 11:30 (DW 1) • 11:45 – 13:00 (DW 2) • 13:00 – 13:30 (Lunch) • 13:30 – 15:00 Sales Meetings • 15:00 – Pickup Hadi

• One of the few but vital things in your control is choosing a narrative that serves you in any situation you face. • It pays to cultivate your explanatory style to render any situation as a blessing: – An achievement – A fulfilling step in your journey – A lesson – A practice of virtues • “But isn’t that making stuff up? What if my narrative isn’t the truth?” The only true thing is facts. One’s interpretation of them is their personal truth. Just because popular opinion believes something to be true doesn’t mean it should also be true for you unless you choose to accept it. • You remain centered & at peace when you choose perspective (yours) over perception (others), and one that serves your growth.

• Variables is what you're fighting against, the trials and tribulations and challenges that inevitably show up in diff. ways.

• Constants are what you're fighting for. The things that you value that never change. It's why you do what you do.

• Peace comes from remembering that you're fighting for the constants, not against the variables. • Always shift your perspective to see the bigger why, not the trivial wrinkles. The variables are to be accepted and tackled, but don't concern over them or let them take away from the constants.

• Expectation is one of the thieves of joy, but there’s a way to make it work in your favour.

• That way is to purposely & consciously lower your expectations.

• You can do so without lowering the quality of your life by always re-choosing to find & control your own peace. This way, you become easy to please, in the sense that you’re constantly grateful & appreciative of anything that meets or marginally (or greatly) exceeds your expectations. Others will notice & feel good about it, which will naturally encourage them to do it more or possibly make it their project to do it more often. Either way, you benefit with or without it.

• “But what about expectations towards meeting my ambitious goals? Do I lower my ambition too?” If you can lower your ambition & still find your peace, then sure, why not? However, you can still pursue your ambitions and indeed 'have' expectations, but treating it as a measurement utensil the same way you’d treat a water level or a measure tape. Also, as you use expectations as a measuring tool, know that it’ll never be perfect, and that an 80% attainment is very significant and so is growing into 80% increases.

• Most importantly, ensure you find your peace independently of it.

• To me, the only goal that matters is finding peace. • Anything worth doing is ultimately done to find and/or maintain peace. • The most enlightened are those who realize they already are and have everything they need to realize it. • Peace comes from many sources, and for me it comes from being centered, which includes: • controlling the controllables • not sweating what isn’t • staying in the present (the day) • having a measure of health • having a measure of wealth • being in touch with my faith • caring for/helping family & friends

• Finding your peace is a choice. You are always in control of it & it is your right, not contingent on external factors.