Some of life’s best lessons are learned at the worst time.

Have you ever fucked up and a teacher, mother or father says to you, “Did you learn your lesson”? It’s exactly what it means. Some of your best lessons in life are learned when you make a poor decision or poor judgement. The important thing is you learn from them and don’t make that mistake or choice ever again. Even in the business world, we all make mistakes and grow from them. Failing, which results in learning a lesson can be valuable to anyone that lives on this Earth. If you don’t learn from a mistake how can you possibly move forward? How can you grow? The answer is you CAN’T. When you’re at a point in your life where you hit rock bottom, the only way to get up is to learn, make adjustments and put every ounce of energy to accomplishing your goal you set forth for yourself.

Learn from your experiences and get better. Period.  

Never stop doing your best just because someone doesn’t give you credit. 

Working hard and busting your ass day in and day out is all you need. You don’t need a manager or a boss to tell you, “Hey, Great job Joey!” When you work hard and pay critical attention to detail, you start to develop important habits. Very important habits. Habits that make you work hard doing whatever it is you do. If you’re working at McDonalds and you’re cooking french fries, make sure you cook those mother fucking fries the best way you can. If you’re a Vice President of a bank, make sure you work to be the best VP you can. 

Is it nice to get a pat on the back every once in awhile? Sure it is. But you’re not working for people to praise you. You’re working for you to better yourself. If you complain or bitch and whine that you didn’t get praise for the project you just finished, who gives a shit. People see the results. If it’s good, people will recognize you. Without a doubt they will. All you need to do is look in the mirror before you go to bed and tell yourself you worked your ass off today and pat your own self on the back. You know why? Because you got better today. 

Be careful of people whose words don’t match their actions.

Nowadays, the majority of people are talkers. I’m going to do this, I’m going to do that blah, blah, blah. Fucking save it guy. When you’re in business or in a friendship be careful whom you interact with in terms of them saying they will do something. Personally, when I tell or say to someone that I’m going to do something I fucking do it. I hate people who never follow through on something they verbally said, or they come to you later with some bullshit excuse. Those people who act in this manner become acquaintances and no longer “friends”. Distance yourself from these people because they are useless. They can’t be trusted. Put your energy and faith in other’s who’s words match their actions.