Swipe File #44: Dare to be human

“I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” — Herbert Bayard Swope (via 5-Bullet Friday [http://www.fourhournewsletter.com/site/fourhourworkweeknewsletter/webform.html?wid=6&u=w&mg_param3=4?utm_…

Swipe File #43: See you on Monday

"I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday." — Eleanor Roosevelt Hey All, I'm writing this from Sydney, Australia where I'm spending a few weeks working with the Vero team. Time is tight, hence the shorter issue this week. But…

Swipe File #42: Shark-Infested Waters

"Don't rely on motivation for anything. It is fleeting and unreliable. Discipline, however, is unyielding. Force yourself to follow through." — /u/DrDrangleDungerson [https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/3h76yq/text_dont_rely_on_motivation_for_anything_it_is/?utm_source=JimmyDaly.com&utm_medium=…

Swipe File #41: Embrace Constraints

"When you look back six months from today and don’t feel embarrassed by your naiveté, there’s a problem." — Nathan Bashaw [https://twitter.com/rrhoover/status/550308425972740096] Hey All, Happy Thursday! This is one of my favorite issues to date. I hope you enjoy reading it as…

Swipe File #40: "Why didn’t you give up?"

"Let your life be shaped by decisions you made, not by the ones you didn’t." — /u/mylasttie [https://www.reddit.com/r/GetMotivated/comments/2xc947/text_soon_i_will_be_gone_forever_but_thats_okay/?utm_source=JimmyDaly.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=swipefile]…

Swipe File #39: Decide what you stand for

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." — Winston Churchill Hey All, I'm out of the office this week so I asked my friend Walter Chen to help me curate this issue. Walter is the founder of iDoneThis [https://idonethis.com], a…

Swipe File #38: Let it marinate

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." — Thomas Jefferson [http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1734] Hey All, Many thanks to everyone who filled out last week's survey. If you haven't yet, I&…

Swipe File #37: You'll never be the same again

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." — Aristotle Hey All, I have a quick favor to ask this week. If you like this newsletter, will you fill out this anonymous, two-question survey [https://jimmy48.typeform.com/to/KRjUWh]? Thanks in…