3 Key Principles for Humongous Success

In order to reach a massive level of successes, you may consider devote yourself to these 3 principles:

Exceed the line of super-credibility

When you surround yourself with successful people, you get to borrow their credibility. Others will take you seriously and won’t question you because you are above the line of super-credibility. Even when we doubt ourselves, sometimes we take ease in knowing that others believe in us more than we do.

When you are under the line of credibility, people dismiss you immediately and don’t take you seriously. Above the line of credibility, you are given a chance to prove yourself, and your words are believed without a shadow of a doubt.

Set yourself up to succeed

Act always toward success, in your mind, and in practical terms. Focus intensively on a solution instead of fixating on obstacles.   Picture your end goal and act upon it, visualize success every time an obstacle presents – it will provide you with the vision on which resources to use and how to overcome any obstacle, it will provide you with strength and the will to reach your goals, it will provide you solutions to reach your aspirations. Whatever you seek is also seeking you.

When in doubt THINK

Don’t give up when people throw obstacles in your path because they don’t believe your vision is possible. Devise creative ways to find solutions, and find the people who share your vision and are excited to help you achieve it.

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How to be Happy when Life seems to be Crappy

Let's discuss the 7 ways to be happy:

1. Three Walks

Research has proven that people who are physically more active are also happier in their day to day life. Exercise provides people with a greater feeling of enthusiasm.  It doesn't take much: half an hour of brisk walking three times a week improves happiness.

2. The 20-Minute Replay

Studies have found that re-playing positive experiences improves people's lives and happiness.  Writing for twenty minutes about a positive experience dramatically improves happiness. Why? Because you actually re-live the experience as you are writing it and then re-live it every time you read it.  It helps us remember things we like about ourselves, people and our lives.

3. Random Acts of Kindness

Psychology Studies have proven that people who are kind to other people tend to be happier than people who are usually not. It's been found that kindness produces the most reliable well-being in any person who practices kindness.  Carrying out random acts of kindness every week will dramatically improve your happiness.

4.  A Complete Unplug

The richest, happiest and most productive lives are characterized by the ability to fully engage in the challenge at hand, but also to disengage and seek renewal.  Downtime after work helps people recharge. Turn off your phone after dinner, try to avoid as much as possible thinking about work issues while relaxing at home, don't use the Internet while on vacations, etc.

5.  Hit flow

When you get absorbed in what you are doing you are being challenged and demonstrating your skill - you are in your flow. People who find challenge and satisfaction of accomplishment tend to be happier.

6.  2-Minute Meditations

Brain scans (as part of Hospital Research), have shown that people who meditate show increase brain activity associated with compassion and self-awareness while stress levels shrink. Studies report that meditation can "permanently rewire" your brain to raise levels of happiness.

7.  Five Gratitudes

Make it a habit to write down five things you are grateful for from the past week.  As Charles Dickens wrote:  "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many, not your past misfortunes, of which all men have some" 

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How to Deal with Your First Product Release to Grow

When you launch your viable product ( MVP) Release 1.0, lots of things can and will go wrong.  Feature requests will also start pouring in. The common tendency is to build more, but that is hardly the answer.

• More features dilute your unique value proposition:  your MVP is better as small and focused as possible – simple products are simple to understand.
• Don’t give up on you MVP too early:  first, troubleshoot and resolve issues with existing features before chasing new features
• Features always have hidden costs:  more features mean more tests, more screenshots, more videos, more coordination, more complexity, more distractions.
• You still don’t know what the customers really want: always keep your future feature ideas in a backlog – later on, validate and prioritize them.
• Start with Minimal Market Features: a feature with the smallest portion of work which provides added value to customers
• When validating and prioritizing features based on customer requests define if the request is a single request or common request – is the feature requested by a single customer or by most customers.  Define and assess whether it is a nice to have or a must have if it’s worth solving and which macro it will affect.
• Review features throughout the feature life-cycle, ensure that they have a positive impact. Otherwise, rework or kill them.
• At the beginning focus on traction and not on scaling – once you demonstrate early traction then and only then you can shift toward achieving sustainable growth.

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