Giovanni Stella

Great actionable piece of advice by @matt_gray_

10.696km, a 14 hours flight. A new continent, a new language, a new job, a lower salary, a few friends that I could rely on in a country I didn't know. And yet, a new world of possibilities in front of me. This is what took me to relocate from Milan, Italy to Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2013. For some, it would have been a bad decision. For me, it was the best decision I could have made, and one that I made out of that feeling of uncomfortable excitement that has driven me in many occasions. Many of the big decisions I've taken in my life share a few things in common: - the will to test myself, to prove myself that I can make it; - the deep trust in myself, the conviction that I would always find a way to work it out, - a touch of reclkessness, some sort of gut feeling that makes you override pure rationality. There are times in your life during which you start to ponder and consider different options for your future. You generally have some lower risk options, the ones that don't entail doing anything too far from your ordinary; and then in the back of your head there's always at least one option which at first sounds too crazy even for you to say out loud. It's almost like an unspoken truth that you don't want to give yourself permission to think. But if you allow yourself to open that door a little bit just to take a closer sneak peek, you start to feel more and more attracted to it, until you eventually normalize it.  All of sudden, the crazy, wild, random option becomes not only a real one, but also the best one. And you normalize it, because you think it through so much and so many times, that you also get to the conclusion that the worst thing that can happen is neither that you will have to go back to your previous reality, nor that you will have to find yourself a new path: is that you won't be able to forgive yourself for not giving the crazy idea a chance, and for not giving yourself a chance to make it. We all reach points where paths diverge. There's comfort in the known, but sometimes the wildest idea tantalizes us. Give it space. See where it leads. You might normalize that "crazy" into your future. Don't miss the chance to find out!

we are all the sum of many failures, and a few wins. Keep dancing.

In Life you win some, you lose some. Just keep moving, and you'll eventually succeed.

We all reach points where paths diverge. There's comfort in the known, but sometimes the wildest idea tantalizes us. Give it space. See where it leads. You might normalize that "crazy" into your future. Don't miss the chance to find out!

If you run Google Ads campaign and you have a brand, do buy your brand's keyword to defend your brand before someone else's do.

To your future self: You were worth it.

Leadership is about who we are, and who we are is the sum of how we react to the things that happen in our lives.

The reward that comes from achieving some goals, makes us weak. You have to stay consistent. I've been listening to many podcasts and watching YT videos from great people that talk about the process that led them to become good at something, and this is one of the main take aways. You get a promotion, or sign a big contract, or win a competition, and you feel you are entitled to lay back and enjoy, because you've made it. But that same feeling can trick you and slowly lead you to lower the bar of your own expectations. You improve yourself by continuously putting yourself through what you don't know and don't like. Studying and listening are not enough. They make you feel better, but don't actually make you improve. What does is that first step. What made Goggins Goggins, is not that he listened to Goggins. It's that he willingly put Goggins through hard, uncomfortable stuff (the suck as he says) over and over and over again. And so it goes for Jocko Willink, and Huberman, and any athlete, entrepreneur, scientist, artist and anyone else who's become incredibly good at something. They all put in the work to actually improve themselves. They all started with a first, weak, uncertain step, and they never stopped. Be humble enough to recognize that you are not good at something. Be self critical enough to expect much more from you. Be honest enough to take full ownership of what happens in your life. Be brave enough to believe that you will make it. Be curious enough to let yourself surprise you by showing you what you are capable of.

What made Goggins Goggins, is not that he listened to Goggins. It's that he constantly put himself through hard stuff as the only way to improve himself. Do the hard stuff. Start with one step, but do it.

From rock bottom addiction to heroin, meth and oxycodin, to qualifying to the Olympics. This is one amazing story about courage, hope and self improvement: runnersworld.com/runners-sto…