Derek Williams

Not ending 2025 without a post.

Happy New Year! #2025

Felt Trumpesian, might delete later.

Felt Trumpesian, might delete later.

Finally debuted in my first official USCF rated chess game after planning to do so for years. Thanks to Richard Henri for making it a challenging game worth remembering.(06/01/2022)

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These moon jellyfish don’t sting. 🚀

When we don’t understand where we are in life, we become what Zig Ziglar calls a “wandering generality” instead of a “meaningful specific.”

Why are we doing what we’re doing?

Can we see the outcomes of what we’re after or are we letting others blind us.

It is time we lift the veil and Grandmaster our way to who we want to be.

To do so requires a change in Perspective, to give us the Power to perform at maximum Production, in order to cause a realization of our Profits.

But above all else, we must move with Purpose. Why are you here Brother?

Myron Golden gave a talk where he said that the word decide comes from the Latin word decidere. It literally means “to cut off.” So a real decision means that you are eliminating all other options. You are so clear on what you want that your decision is not a choice. A real decision means you will do something, even if you don’t know how to do it.

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Thoughts on this?🤔

This man with an IQ of 300 still believes in simplification. Who would have thought?🤷🏽‍♂️

At his event in 2017, Russell Brunson gets vulnerable with his audience about how he almost went bankrupt and sent to jail because his bookkeeper hid the fact that he still had to pay payroll taxes from him. He kept trying different ways of selling his services to come up with the money. Finally, he found a programmer that was able to create an auto-webinar funnel that allowed him to pay the IRS just in time.

My takeaway from this is that when our backs are against the wall, we tend to rise above the pressure and accomplish whatever is necessary. As long as you believe in yourself, you will be able to solve the problem.

Interesting🤔. This blew my mind tbh. If I get better at cleaning pools, for instance, I get less money. I put less time on the clock.

You have to market first to have a chance to sell someone. If you get good at selling, but suck at marketing, you do not get paid more.

What’s the difference? Marketing is changing belief patterns in people and solving legitimate problems. Selling is the presentation of the offer. People tend to jump straight to the offer, but they will not get paid more because they failed to show how they can solve the problem.

In short, you get paid more for solving more problems for other people.