Why You Should Write Down Your Goals For 2018

When you were born you were given a name. And that name was written down on a piece of paper. Before that multiple names were written on pieces of paper and from that your name was chosen so it’s final.

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

Things get written down when people are serious about them. The most serious one is your name what was written down when you were born. And it has been written down many times during your life. On your driving licence, passport, student card etc. They do that because that’s how it’s going to be. It’s final! It has been decided.

When you were in school you had to write down all kind of stuff. Stuff you didn’t like and the stuff you liked. After that you knew what things you didn’t like and what things you did like. That’s the reason why you needed to do it. You were in the process of creating yourself. Teachers didn’t say “Go home and think about what we did today and remember everything”. Students had to write it down. So they will remember it.

Now when 2018 is coming closer. You need to start paying attention to your life and write down your goals. You need to take a moment and grab a piece of paper and write everything down.

I’ve done it for years and there have been years when I haven’t hit my goals but in the long run I am overachieving them all. I am accomplishing more and doing more than I imagined 10 years ago. Remember, just keep writing these goals down and you will get there.

Do it now!

 

The Best Thing To See

I’ve been thinking about one thing recently and wanted to share it…

The best thing ever to see is to see someone rise above the noise from the bottom. To see a person who had nothing, started building with nothing and broke through because he stayed true to himself. There’s not so many people around like that nowadays. They’re really hard to find.

For example people who do music, painters, sports, actors, entrepreneurs etc. They didn’t stop or give up on their dreams and goals because they stayed true to theirselves. They kept on going even when things got really hard! Think about your friends and family!? Are they like that? I bet most of them are not! Most of the people run around without having any idea what they are doing. If someone offers them 1000$-2000$ a month then that’s already enough for them to give up on their dreams and goals… That’s just sad. It’s so damn hard to accomplish all the things you want in life.

Most people give up because they can’t see themselves pushing another 5, 10 or even 20 years to accomplish their dreams and goals. But the thing is that these years are passing anyway.

I once heard a saying “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and the second best time is today”.

Remember that and start today!

If you see someone who’s pushing to break through then give him a hand.

Listen… This Year You’ll Turn 30

Listen to me better than you have ever done before in your life. You need to do this because it’s important. I am talking about your life! You need to get yourself together. I know you’ve had some victories along the way and maybe you can feel you have accomplished something but be real. You have accomplished nothing. Nothing! That’s where you are. If you really want to do big things then get yourself together and stop playing small. You only have one chance in this life. It’s not computer game where you get more lives. You only have one. So don’t fuck up!

Treat yourself well and accomplish big things so you can enjoy the life you have with your loved ones.

That’s what I said to myself today!

How To Live Unlimited Life?

Unlimited life… what an interesting saying. What does it mean? I guess it has a different meaning for everyone. For me me it means living in a world where you can do whatever you want, wherever you want and with whoever you want. That’s what I call unlimited life.

To live a life like that then first you need to have an unlimited mind. You need to be open and closed at the same time. Forget the rubbish what’s on TV, radio and what they taught you in school. You’ll live life on your own terms! Take advice only from people who are living an unlimited life. Most of the times it even means not taking advice from your friends. You need to trust yourself.

What you need to do with your life?

You need to give full control of your life to yourself! It sounds so ridiculous that it’s even weird to write it. So what it means? It means living life on your own terms. Creating a business, selling door to door, moving overseas or whatever you want to do. I means that you’ll do whatever it takes to live an unlimited life. Yes… you’ll probably end up in debt, frustrated and thinking that your going to lose your mind.

What not to do?

Don’t have a plan where you work until the rest of your life for someone else! Don’t get me wrong… There’s nothing wrong with working for someone else to pay the bills and work on your side project at the same time. My advice… Don’t get a job and end up in debt. When your in a situation like that then you need to be creative and think differently than what the society has taught you. You’ll learn things what you can only learn when you are in that situation.

“You’ll never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.”

The secret is…

Once you get to the point when you have your first wins then you realize that you were living unlimited life all the time. Yes, you didn’t have much money, car or whatever you thought you wanted but you were doing things you really desired and wanted to do. It’s all about the process. Once you trust the process your whole life is going to change.

I’d like to know your thoughts about that. Let me know in the comments.

 

How To Get Back On Track When You Have Fucked Up In Life

I believe that many of us or it’s even better to say that most of us fuck up in life in our 20s. Life is about making choices and facing your fears. I believe that these two are exactly the same things.

It’s funny… When you are in your early 20s and having trouble then you feel like you have fucked up. At least for me it was like that… Why we get that feeling? I believe that there are many reasons for that.

Most of my friends had secure jobs and money

I had nothing – no money or a job. All I had was a huge debt to carry and monthly payments to make. My friends were taking holidays and buying apartments to settle. There were many times when I said “No I have something else to do. I can’t come.” But honestly I just had no money to go. I am not talking about overseas holiday trip for a week. I mean just a night out. And these times just make you think WTF am I doing with my life at the moment…

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve lived overseas many years in my life but that doesn’t mean I was there on a holiday. I was absolutely nobody trying to make my way in life.

I remember watching youtube videos about mentors. When I watched these videos I visualized that person is sitting just next to me and talking face to face to me.

The biggest thing I’ve learned when I went through hell in my life

“When building a business then time is your biggest friend”

I wish it was as easy as it is to read it. When you’re in a moment when you have to choose if you pay your rent, loan, taxes or buy food then that quote doesn’t really help you much. You are in a shit situation.

At these moments every night I sat in my room with my headphones on and visualized my future and tried to think about positive things.

Eric Thomas says “Some things you just have to out last in your life”

Now I can say it’s 100% true. It’s simple as that. These sayings have made a huge difference in my life. When I am saying that “Time is your biggest friend”. Listen… it took me 5 years to get my life in order and find my way out.

So be careful. People don’t realise that if you make one bad decision it can take few years to recover. You make another bad decision and it takes you even more. Be really wise and surround yourself with right people. If you don’t have the right people then be by yourself.

Looking back on all these years and lessons learnt. There’s no better way to learn in life than through massive failures. But you can say that about anything. Wouldn’t it be better to do the right thing right away?

When you’re in shit to your neck then remember to keep your head up.

 

How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything

How you do anything is how you do everything.

I posted one month ago that I am going to be a vegetarian for a month. The reason I write my goals out here is if you say it out loud then you’re committed. I’ll share some thoughts while I did it.

I didn’t miss meat at all. Even now after a month I don’t miss it. About a year a ago I heard a saying “If a decision has been made then choices are easier.” That’s true if you understand the power of a decision. What it means? It means if you make a decision then you don’t even think about distractions – you cut them off. Funny I wrote I might even do it longer if I feel good about it. After a month I feel that I am more energetic and can concentrate better. I challenge you to do the same. Everybody should try it.

How you do anything is how you do everything. I truly believe that. I’ve set myself a new challenge… To do home workout schedule for 90 days and to continue my challenge being a vegetarian for that time. If I finish it then it’s just few days before my birthday. I had a goal few years ago to be in the best shape in my life when I am 27 years old. I am turning 28 so I still have a chance to do it. I also had a goal to make a certain amount of money when I am 27. I have three months to achieve that as well. If I say it out here I am 100% sure I am going to achieve it. The reason I am doing this is because I truly believe “Healthy body, healthy mind spirit”. I am doing it all with my girl. If I finish that challenge then I’ll post first even naked photos online of my progress.

I do it to prove myself that I can achieve anything I want. Doesn’t matter what it is if I set my mind to it – I can do it. I do it to train my focus, dicipline and with all that I have a healthier body and mind. One f my goals is to live until I am at least 100 years old.

How And Why To Save Your Time

Thursday morning, I am sitting in my office. Thinking about my future, opportunities and trying to figure out how to make right decisions for my life and my purpose. It’s hard… My intuition says one thing but at the same time I want to stick with another thing. Really don’t know what to do… When I look at my previous experiences about deciding things then intuition always won. I hope I’ll figure it out. I am sure that I am achieving all my goals and dreams. If I quit something then it’s only because I didn’t feel like doing it with that team, plan or some other reason. It’s not because I gave up. It’s like I am holding a bow and shooting arrows. I know what’s my target, I just have to have the right arrows and if I am in a team then I need to make sure that my team is giving me the right arrows that I deserve to hit my target. When decisions like these come into your life you need to leave emotions behind and make a decision what’s best for you. I believe that you can only do one thing at one time. I don’t wanna say that you can only do one thing at all. What I mean is that you have only one moment of that time where you are at this moment – year, month, day, hour, second… and you can only do one thing at that time. Even if you are saying that you are doing two things then it really means you are doing one thing at that time when you are doing it. I am talking about milliseconds and you are never getting that millisecond back. You can only once be in that moment where you are right now. If you make every millisecond count then looking back years later your whole life counted.

Be wise and choose your time wisely.

I hope you got some value.

Have a great day,
Olav

Nr 1 Thing Where You Can Spend Your Money

Simple short post to share my thoughts on that…

I sold my business what I built from scratch in LA. The only reason I sold it was to get capital and scale big. I started it by selling door to door without any money at all. It was the hardest time of my life. After that small victory I thought I needed to celebrate it somehow. I was thinking about buying an expensive watch because thats something what I’ve always wanted. Another idea was to travel to Maldives and have an awesome holiday there before returning back home for summer. But still that’s not something what I really wanted to do… These things never give me the inspiration and drive to climb even higher.

I decided to celebrate it in totally different way. Nine years ago my mum bought me plane tickets to Thailand so I could come here and train muay thai. I gave here a Skype call and said that I am buying you tickets so you can come to Thailand and spend an awesome holiday with us here for 11 days before we come home. All on me. I rented a kick ass apartment and here we are. Two days later she was here and is having time of her life at the moment.

That’s the place where you should spend your money. Take care your family and close ones. Don’t buy a stupid watch or any other dumb stuff.

Take care,
Olav

Why to save your time?

Thursday morning, I am sitting in my office. Thinking about my future, opportunities and trying to figure out how to make right decisions for my life and my purpose. It’s hard… My intuition says one thing but at the same time I want to stick with another thing. Really don’t know what to do… When I look at my previous experiences about deciding things then intuition always won. I hope I’ll figure it out. I am sure that I am achieving all my goals and dreams. If I quit something then it’s only because I didn’t feel like doing it with that team, plan or some other reason. It’s not because I gave up. It’s like I am holding a bow and shooting arrows. I know what’s my target, I just have to have the right arrows and if I am in a team then I need to make sure that my team is giving me the right arrows that I deserve to hit my target. When decisions like these come into your life you need to leave emotions behind and make a decision what’s best for you. I believe that you can only do one thing at one time. I don’t wanna say that you can only do one thing at all. What I mean is that you have only one moment of that time where you are at this moment – year, month, day, hour, second… and you can only do one thing at that time. Even if you are saying that you are doing two things then it really means you are doing one thing at that time when you are doing it. I am talking about milliseconds and you are never getting that millisecond back. You can only once be in that moment where you are right now. If you make every millisecond count then looking back years later your whole life counted.

Be wise and choose your time wisely.

I hope you got some value.

Have a great day,
Olav

When bullets start flying!

I’ve been in Los Angeles for almost six months. I’ve met a lot of interesting people here. For example I met a guy today at Venice beach who I’ve seen at least 10 times running pass me but today he stopped for conversation and one thing captured me… He said “In a place like this you never grow old”. That’s one of these moments what I’ll always remember. I have a feeling that he’s 100% right. If you live in a environment where you can go for a run everyday by the ocean, workout outside and later jump into the ocean for a swim it’s hard to grow old.

What I wanted to say about the topic “When bullets start flying”

I met a guy here with who we had a conversation about being an entrepreneur. He said that in Santa Monica they have a saying… “Will you carry me, protect me and pick me up when I am lying on the battle field wounded to keep on fighting? In some point the bullets start flying and people want to drag us down. Will you keep on fighting with me for our goal?” He said that’s more important than a good idea. The most important thing in business is to keep on going for the same purpose with your team. If you have that then nothing can stop you. That’s what you have to look for. Look for people who are crazy enough to go after what you want. Don’t look for people who just want to make money and are looking for a easy way out.

I hope you got some value.

Have a great day,
Olav