Micah Baldwin, CEO of Graphic.ly, mentor of 500Startups, Techstars, Happy Farm. Famous serial entrepreneur, mentor and advisor. Interesting speaker. Sincere person. Agree or don’t agree – but Micah is sure it works. So… maybe today is the right day to change something and become happier?

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‘The harder you work the happier you become’ – it’s lie!

THINK about the company you started.

The founders are the most important people. The most important about founder – he has to be productive!

START with small things. Every day notice what you want to accomplish.

Define 4 goals every day:

1)     Personal

2)     Professional – contact definite person

3)     Psychological – call mum

4)     Physical – walking

If you do all 4 – the day is good and accomplished!

Believe, between doing goals you will become more productive!

 

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‘How ARE you?’

Usually when you ask– people answer how their company is doing.

It must not be so!

The right way for CEO to make company successful – first of all to focus on himself.

Healthy and  happy CEO leads company to success.

The truth is that: awesome is only skin deep!

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Me & my startup

We define ourselves by our startups. It is not right!

My startup is defined by me but not viceversa!

My startup is reflection of ME!

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About motion and productivity

Motion is not the same thing as result and productivity.

24 hours of work is a mess.

A good CEO has to care only about productivity.

A good CEO asks people: Tell me what you gonna do and do it! Or… be fired!

You have to trust people in your company!

 

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How to become happy – rules for a good CEO

1)     Be selfish!

Carry about yourself!

Take your phone and put it to another room!

Start morning from yourself, not from checking mails!

Set to alarms – for example – 7 and 7-30. Grant 30 minutes for yourself!

2) Gift yourself!

If you eat within 30 minutes after waking up – you lose weight better. The same is you’re your brain.

3) Fail purposefully!

Failure – you hate to experience it. Failure happens to everyone. For most of us it is our fault.

After failures try to find things you are good at.

Failure is not fun, but you should focus on what you do after failure!

4) Find easy!

We feel startups should be hard.

Start to look for easy things!

Even if the path is evident and easy you should not be guilty of doing it in easy way!

Guilt is stopping you from finding easy ways. Stop feeling guilty!

5) Join life!

Enjoy life!

Relax! It’s ok!

It is the hardest for a lot of people – to join life.

Have a good time! It is ok!

6) Get a pal!

It’s very important to find right cofounder.

Find somebody who IS YOUR PEER.

7) Be happy!