The Rules’ Club

To reach your full potential

Always be a good student and take advice, but make sure that the decisions are your own.

We need to work hard on what comes easy to us. We all have different inclinations and missions in life, the aim is to find what activities put us in “flow state” (losing sense of time) and find a way to monetize it.
Be motivated by love & passion, not by money.

We cannot say that someone is “lucky” or be envious of their life if we are not willing to put in the same amount of work they do/did.

Don’t be lazy in learning: a formal education will make you a living but freedom require self-education and curiosity.
Always stay adaptable and on the move, the only constant in life is change.

Keep a “white belt” mentality. Remind yourself that you always have new things to learn and that there will always be someone better than you in their field.
Once you understand that everything feels hard before it becomes easy, it will be easier to make the hard choices today for an easier life later.
The aim is not perfection, the aim is improvement.

Life doesn’t happen to you, it happens for you

We cannot compare our chapter 4 to someone’s else chapter 12. The only competition is with who you were yesterday: stay focused on your own goals and keep improving yourself on daily basis. As long as you’re working towards your direction and never stop, you can only win.

You will repeat the same patterns unconsciously until you consciously choose to forgive and heal, but we cannot heal from something we are not aware of.

No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant (Thanks uncle Buffet).

• This is just like saying: ”I will hit the gym when I will have abs”. It just doesn’t work this way (period). To get worthy results, you will have to become better, and to become better you will have to experience the pain of going out of your comfort zone (just like building a muscle – no pain, no gain).
• “We all must all suffer from one of the two pains : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The only difference, is that discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons” (Jim Rohn).
• “Those who sow in tears shall reap in joy”- Psalm 126:5

Don’t try to skip steps or take shortcuts. Keep doing the basics for a long period of time, and you will get the results.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.

The best version of you is not the “I can do anything” version of you. The best version of yourself is the disciplined version of yourself.
We call it “delayed gratification”, which is “suffering” today for a better outcome in the future.