Hate is a powerful thing, make no mistake about it. Do you know how to use hate? Most times, people who get the best results are the ones who want it more. The ones who want it the most are usually people who have been through some “bad experience” recently… Some experience that made them angry.

Maybe they have “broken up” or divorced recently…

Maye someone has picked on them…

Laughed at them…

Bullied them…

Someone who hates someone… this FUELS a person

Hate is powerful!

The best revenge is massive success

-Frank Sinatra

If you got someone you hate, or if someone has hurt you, maybe life hurt you? Took someone you love away from you?

How to use hate

You can use that “hate” to achieve your goals, to punish them!

Hate is motivation!

Let me take the great football (soccer) player Zlatan Ibrahimovic (Ibra) for example.

He grew up in Sweden, in a so-called (Swedish) ghetto. He got to play with blond Swedish guys early on in his football career.

• He was different from an immigrant family
• Nobody believed in him
• Then he got hated on (jealousy)

He got angry and wanted to show them!

He STILL uses this “hate” to succeed, he uses it as fuel, he uses it to be unstoppable… and he is.

He is one of my absolute biggest inspirations by the way

It´s the same with me… I am a short guy… and when I was a child and in my early teens I was always skinny… Also I kind of looked different (due to my Spanish heritage) than the tall (most blonde) typical Swedish guys…

Needless to say, I got into many fights, you know how kids are, right?

So I got angry and started to work out, lifting weights.

I wanted to be prepared to fight anyone… no matter how big, and no matter if they were 2 or even 3 guys… I was gonna “kill” them lol!

Funny thing though, when I had put on my muscle… it stopped… nobody wanted to fight with me anymore…

My absolute worst “hate” experience

Or when life hurt me so bad a couple of years ago… It gave my father cancer and took his life…

I got angry again… I promised my dad, my self, and god that I would create and succeed with an online business no matter what!

Once again I was fueled by hate… and I used it… I still use it!

Not (at all) saying that I am Ibra, but I identify with him, I understand him, and I got a similar mindset… a winner, work hard mentality.

Conclusion

If you can find somebody (or something) to hate, and then channel that energy into something you will be able to accomplish great things. You have to transmute that energy into achieving your goals.

For the HATE.

I think it is more powerful than love… at least in my experience so far in life…

Many people tell me all the time, thank you for being so positive John, you are such a “joy spreader” and yeah I guess, maybe I am…

But… Make no mistake… I wake up every morning with hate in my heart… Hate for my enemies. That is what drives me to do what most aren´t prepared to do…

I want to KILL my enemies (not literally) but I want to be so successful that it brings them pain. It should be painful for them to see it…

I don´t know if that is positive or not but it fuels me.

So please, don´t always “turn the other cheek” and don´t always forgive… Instead show them, make them feel sorry that they ever did bad to you… Make them eat their laughs up…

Sometimes I make my real friends and loved ones “hate” me… I pick on them… I sacrifice myself because I want to awake hate in them and use it to show me… It works sometimes, sometimes they see through my tactic though :o)

Anyway… If you got someone, some people, or something that you hate… Don´t punish (fight with) them… Instead, make yourself so successful that they will feel very bad.

You know why? Because nothing will make a hater feel worse than seeing you being successful.

Use the hate to get yourself up from bed every morning!

Hope you found this short post on how to use hate to be helpful, and please share your thought in the comment section below! If you have any questions I will be more than happy to answer them below!

I wish you the best

/John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

You know, the good old saying “its lonely at the top” is true. At least, if you want to become an entrepreneur, or if you are trying to succeed with ANYTHING, you have to know (and be prepared) for a very lonely road. Not many (if anyone) will be prepared to follow you on this journey. So the question is, are you prepared for that? Do you actually understand what it takes? To be successful as an entrepreneur, or at anything really…

Because no matter what it is, if you want to be a famous musician, writer, or sports athlete… It is going to take hours and hours of practice… No matter how talented you are… at least if you want to reach the top… You have to be consistent, week after week, month after month, year after year… That is just how it is.

My bus ride the other day.

Today its Christmas, and I traveled up North (in Sweden) 2 days ago with bus as my whole (closest) family is going to meet in the Swedish town Östersund for Christmas, my sister and her children are coming from London so we are going to celebrate in her husband’s sisters house.

Anyway,

let me tell you about my bus ride…

First of all, the bus was packed… So was the road… And most of us (on the bus) understood pretty early on that this ride was going to be delayed at least a couple of hours.

I fast in the morning.

I woke up 7: am this morning, the bus took off at 9: am and the only thing I put inside my stomach before I took off was around 1 liter of water and a cup of green tea.

I always eat breakfast at 1 in the afternoon… I have been doing this for years and that is not a problem for me, I love it as I feel very clear in my head doing this, and I have the most productive time of the day before I put any food inside my system.

As the only “bus break” on this 8-hour trip was going to take place in a small town named Ljusdal, I thought it was perfect, as I then could eat breakfast at a restaurant when we arrived… My routine would have been intact… I ended up breaking my fast a little more than 2 hours later.

My bus activities

What do you think I did on the bus (except drinking water)?

I worked, of course, I have goals and I am serious about them. I am not “fucking around” and I make sure to complete my daily tasks no matter what… Or else I will feel like a failure.

I brought my laptop, my notebook, and my other books and a pen. I was set. And I can tell you that I got a lot done, and actually completed every single task on my list that day before I got to eat breakfast. The only thing I couldn´t do was working out, I did that when I arrived instead…

What did the people around me do?

So, as I sat on the bus working (and studying), what did the other people on the packed bus do?

Well, first of all… When we understood the bus was going to be very late, they went to the driver and started asking “when will we arrive” and such questions, some complained, and some didn´t, however, almost all of them asked with a “complaining voice” like it would help?

I mean, the road was packed, what can the driver do about that? NOTHING.

ANyway… when the complaining to the bus driver had planned out… they started to call to their loved ones and friends… and complained some more…

The girl who sat next to me was eating a sandwich of white bread as soon as we got on the bus, then she had a chocolate bar that she ate on every 15 minutes, a can of coca-cola, that she sipped on pretty much until we arrived at the “break”

The couple next to us, they put on a movie on their iPad and started eating candy from a BIG bag full of it…

And the rest of the bus did pretty much the same things… digging their heads deep down into their smartphones and stuff…

Some bus hate

While I was working, I took some 5-min breaks for drinking water, and also to go to the toilet on the bus (mostly to move around a little).

And I can tell you that I felt like a UFO lol!

I could almost touch on the feeling of jealousy, envy, and hate…

Like who does he think he is or something like that, it is a bit hard to explain, but I felt it very strong… But I love it… It means I am doing stuff most aren´t prepared to do… That is also how you get results most don´t get.

Not only hate

I have to say that I also saw a few people that got inspired (at least I think so in my head) and some that gave me admirable looks. And when my mother called and asked me how the trip was going and I told her in a very positive tonality that the bus was late but it was ok and everything.

I could see that even some of the haters gave me admiration, or at least they got shooked in some way lol!

When I finally arrived to eat breakfast

I was the first person out from the bus… I went straight to the restaurant (we only had 45 minutes break) and I ordered a falafel sallad…

After a few minutes, some other persons from the bus came and asked if they could sit at my table. “I said yes of course” and we started to chit-chat a little while we ate.

Somehow we came into the breakfast topic and I said that I had not had breakfast or eat anything yet and the girl, who looked a bit nerdy told me: “I could never do that, I would die” and I was thinking to myself “Whether you think you can or you think you can not you are right” but I only told her, it was only hard the first 1-2 weeks, after that you get used to it, I have been doing it for years.

Anyway, the rest of the bus trip was going better, the traffic jam had resolved and the road was pretty empty…

I arrived and meet my family, got my workout done and went to bed early.

Conclusion

Ok, I have been ranting a bit now, I know, but I just want to make a point and remind you (and myself) that complaining never helps… It only makes a situation worse. Also, if you want to achieve your goals, you have to be prepared to sacrifice some stuff… Like watching movies, sitting on your phone, social media and so on.

So, are you prepared for that? Its lonely at the top 😉

Merry Christmas!

John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

Work smarter not harder! Today I want to share 3 great tips to you on how to become more productive. You see, there is a big difference in working hard instead of working smart. If you can combine the 2 you are going to crush your goals faster than you might think is possible. They all work great for me and am pretty sure that they will work for you also if you implement them.

There is, of course, many ways to become more productive and get things done, however, these 3 tips I want to share with you are very easy to implement and you could get started right away with this 3.

How to become more productive?

Ok, so below I will list 3 great (and easy to implement) things that you can get started with right away and if you do, you might just end up crushing your current goals much faster than you could ever imagine.

Ok, let´s jump right into it. Here they are:

1: Make a list

It has been proven over and over again (if you have tried it you don´t even need proof you just know).

ALL humans work a lot better if they have a list.

Create daily lists and knock all the stuff on it out each and every day.

P.S.

Your daily list should be based on a “bigger” list for the whole months, that is part of a bigger list for a 3-month period… That is part of a bigger list that is based out of a 1 year period.

A nice bonus from this is that it is also good for A LOT of other things 😉

2: Eliminate ALL distractions

This one is VERY important, yet many (am guilty too sometimes) seem to forget, or not take this one seriously enough.

Turn of your TV!

Turn off your music!

Turn of your phone (unless you are waiting for some important phone call)

You better believe that this is important because it is…

P.S.

Also, do NOT check your e-mail throughout the whole day, only check it once in the morning and maybe once at night max… More than that will only be a waste of time, energy… and most “dangerously” it WILL distract you from what you really should be focusing on.

3: Stand up when you work

This tip is one that I didn´t adapt until pretty recently, but this has also been proven over and over again to make you more productive as your brain will work better and you will also feel more confident while standing instead of sitting down.

As a bonus, your back will thank you for this as sitting is NOT very good for your back muscles and bones.

P.S.

If you find this hard, at least make sure to stand up and walk around, do some push-ups or something for 5-minute breaks, every 45 minutes… Set your alarm clock if needed.

Conclusion

There you go! This 3 tips you can start implementing right away and if you stick to them for 3-4 weeks you will (most likely) notice that you are moving FAST towards your goals and you might just have to set new ones 😉

I hope you found this short post on how to become more productive to be helpful and now you should be able to get started right away. Please, if you have any questions or if you got some great tips then share it with us in the comment section below as it can help both me and others.

I wish you success!

John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

How do you become more confident? This short post will show you how to get confidence. Of, course, there are many different tactics out there for this, however, in this post I will present my favorite one and the one that has worked best for me… and really made a significant difference in my life.

Let´s get right to the point!

P.S. 

This technique is not something that I have come up myself, I have got it from reading books but it has absolutely worked for me. And I now know what I am capable of thanks to this technique

How to get confidence – It´s simple

Write a list of 5 things that you need to accomplish for tomorrow, then you complete every single one of them. Then you do this every day for a couple of weeks.

Don´t make the tasks to challenging in the beginning… After (around) 3 weeks you can start to make your 5 tasks more challenging.

Complete every single task each day no matter what (!)

After 3-4 weeks you will start to feel that you can depend on yourself… and guess what?

Your confidence WILL grow from that.

You are now doing what you say you are going to do… That builds integrity.

You now believe in yourself more, because you have done what you said you were going to do. Proven to yourself, that you can keep the promises that you have made for yourself.

That WILL make you start to believe in yourself A LOT more.

• You will walk a little prouder
• You will stand a little taller

Think about it

Maybe this doesn´t make any sense to you? But, I promise you that you will feel it if you do this. You WILL start to believe that you are going to do what you said you were gonna do.

Because… you know… If you don´t believe in yourself and believe that you are going to do what you said you gonna do… How can anyone else?

How can anyone have confidence in you?

Think about that for a minute…

How can anyone else have confidence in you if you don´t have confidence in yourself?

The conclusion

That is really how it starts, it will only grow bigger and bigger if you continue but you have to start somewhere. You have to start to believe in yourself more… and after doing this (keeping promises to yourself) for a few weeks you will start to believe in yourself more.

You will KNOW that you can depend on YOU… to do what you are supposed to do.

Once you have built this habit you will (without a doubt) start to believe in yourself.

That is confidence.

You will now know what you are capable of.

Then… you increase the “difficulty” of the daily tasks you write down.

You will understand that you are capable of accomplishing more and MORE… Your confidence will get bigger and BIGGER.

Don´t confuse REAL with FAKE (Because no one else does)

If you just do this one thing… You will build REAL confidence.

Because confidence has to be based on something.

It can NOT be faked… it can NOT be baseless.

You know what I mean, right? We have all seen that guy (or girl) who fake confidence… and they are not fooling anyone but themselves…

But…

If you have the “evidence” that you can do what you promised to yourself… day after day… week after week… month after month…

Evidence, that you are a person that DO what you said you were gonna do.

That is evidence (to yourself),

that is PROOF.

That you can accomplish things…

Now your confidence is based on something… something REAL. It´s not just some bullshit… It is REAL.

Final words

Try this simple technique and you will notice a difference in your personality.

It will not happen “overnight” but over time you will feel it and others WILL see it.

I hope you found this short post on how to get confidence with this technique to be helpful and now you should know what to do next. Please, if you got any questions about this I will be more than happy to answer them below! Also, don´t forget to share to help others! Use the share buttons below (Facebook, Twitter, etc)

I wish you the best!

John,

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

Can you harvest benefits from suffering? In this post, I want to share something that I find very important and that I think you might find very beneficial. It is kind of my philosophy, what I want to talk about has to do with pain, suffering, and agony. This sound like bad things and they feel bad when you go through them but… you actually need these things in order to grow and to accomplish anything worth accomplishing, so you shouldn´t be afraid of experiencing it.

It is something that will make you capable of accomplishing anything you want, whether it is financial goals, fitness goals, family goals, or anything in this life.

Most of YOU are SOFT

That is just a fact, I see it every day… Most of you want it to be easy all the time, you are soft.

For example:

Many people ask me how to get in shape, how to get a 6-pack for example.

So I ask them, do you have a training log? Do you write down everything you eat, how much water you drink, what exercises do you do an so on? What program do you follow? What diet?

Another example:

Many ask me how to make money online, how to start an online business?

So I ask them, do you study for a few hours every day? Do you take action on what you learn every day? Are you consistent?

And I (almost) always get the same response “Ooh that is too much” that is “hard” or “ooh I don’t have time for that” and so on… (Complaining and excuses is all I hear)

That is because you are soft… I have to be honest with you here… You are soft.

Most want it to be easy, they don´t want to go through pain and suffering… They only want it instantly and in an easy way…

You have to understand that to accomplish something great, something that s worth having… then you have to go through stuff that is hard.

When I tell people that I don´t eat sugar, cookies and cakes… “Oooh I cannot do that, I have to live life”

…or when I tell people I work out 6 days per week… “oooh I cannot do that I don´t have time”

Shut the f##k up man! You ain´t the first one who have school, a job, or a family that works out for an hour per day…

1. Don´t blame your family for your weakness
2. Don´t blame your job for your weakness
3. Don´t blame your school for your weakness

It’s YOU… If you were tough enough you could spare an hour or two every day… probably even a lot more.

People have time to watch TV for an hour per day, people know everything about last nights football/soccer game, people are experts at candy fucking crush…

Personally, I don´t even remember the last movie I saw, I NEVER watch TV and I have no idea of how Candy fucking crush or Clash of the bullshit clans even work…

I got goals… I ain´t got time for that shit… I got goals that are more important.

How I really started my online business

When I started out learning how to create an online business, and also created one was actually back when I had a 9-5… And it was not an “easy job” it was a hard job, on a sawmill.

Every day after work, I went straight to the gym… then straight home and worked on my online biz for a few hours before I went to bed…

Let me tell you a (my) story

I don´t like to speak about it too much because I get a little emotional… But anyway.

A few years ago m father got cancer, then he got chemotherapy treatment… The day after (his first treatment) I was at work, cutting some trees… I got a phone call from my mother, and she said: “John, your father is about to die. You have to come with me to the hospital” 

She went on and told me that she had got a call from the hospital and they had told her that “she better come”

That was all they had said to her, but my mother had “read between the lines” and she understood that the time had come for my father…

When we arrived and went into the room where my father was… We got a HORRIBLE shock… He didn´t even look like he did the day before… He looked dead… He couldn´t move and he couldn´t speak…

Nobody warned us about this… They just let us go inside the room and see this for ourselves… Both me, and my mother started to cry, of course… I got very angry at the hospital staff and I screamed very bad things to them and told them to leave the room immediately… They did…

We (me and my mother) stayed with my dad for 8 hours like this… We spoke to him but he couldn´t speak back… We stayed until he died… (P.S. the moment after he died he actually looked like himself again and became beautiful again) Then we stayed another hour or so after also… until he got cold…

This was a big turning point in my life for me… I became a man this day… I had to be “the man of the family” as I lived with my mother at this time… Not financially (my father left money), but emotionally… I had to be the mentally strong one, and I made it my mission to smile (even though I was very sad).

I also started to work harder on my online biz, I worked harder in the gym… and I continued to work my 9-5…

I STILL did what was required to accomplish my goals…

I could just have made excuses, right? I mean that would have been a pretty good reason for making excuses, right?

Like: “Oooh my father was poisoned by so-called doctors giving him chemotherapy (even though he had diabetes and a very bad liver)

He was my best friend… He was always there for me… Now he is gone… So I just give up on my goals…

That would have been a good excuse, to stop working out, to being sad, unhappy and negative to people around me, to stop working on my online business (that wasn´t generating any money at all at the time)

F##K NO!

F##K THAT!

NOBODY gives a f##k about my excuses!

And nobody cares about yours.

One example:

You cannot go to a hot girl that you want and tell her “Hey baby, I know I ain´t got the body you are attracted to, but you have to understand I got school, or work… So please date me anyway”

She doesn´t give a fuck!

She only cares about results

Another example:

You cannot go into the Tesla store and say “Hey, I don´t have the money to buy this car, but you should just give it to me anyway because I had a bad uprising, and/or I don´t have time to create myself higher income”

They don´t care!

They only care about the results (you having the money required)

Life does NOT work like that

You have to be willing to do what´s required to achieve your goals… and most of the times… what is required is PAIN… SUFFERING… You have to go through a lot of pain.

You know… my father died so fast… One day he was functional, happy, able to speak, able to move… the next day he was paralyzed and not even able to speak… a few hours later his body was dead and cold…

That was VERY painful… right?

My mother was crying, my sister, my uncles, my cousins, everyone…

But that was actually something that made me a man.

The pain made me stronger.

To be honest… It was a sad thing BUT… what came out of it… the outcome was that I became a man. I felt it so strongly.

I promised him (my dad) that I would become stronger, I also promised myself, and I promised god.

I WILL reach my goals NO MATTER WHAT.

My point is:

After that, I knew what I was capable to take… I also knew that I was able to take more… So now, when I get a challenge in life, I just feel that I have been through much worse in life.

However… I see it every day… people avoiding pain… PLEASE do NOT do that.

Instead, be GOOD at dealing with pain. Go out in the cold weather, go out in the rain…

For example:

• I HATE working out… but I LOVE the results.
• I HATE studying… but I LOVE the results.

You have probably heard the good old saying

“Nothing grows in a comfort zone”

Michael Jordan once said:

“I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have  been entrusted to take the winning shot…and missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why…I succeed.” 

-Michael Jordan

We (humans) have a tendency to avoid pain and that is also why most of us never get good at anything.

We settle… Living a mediocre life…

I believe you don´t want that.

You have to go through something painful in order to get something pleasurable.

The solution

So… Focus on what you want… Think about what you have to go through to in order to get there… Then just be tough enough to go through it.

We all start out soft, that is ok, that is normal… but you got to get good at enduring pain, suffering and agony.

Once you get good at that there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

The ONLY thing that keeps you from accomplishing ANYTHING is really to go through the pain that is required to get there…

Any BIG goal you have, any goal that is worth having is going to be difficult to reach.

But listen: You should be happy that it is difficult to get there… because most people are SOFT, and most are NOT willing to go through what is necessary to get there. So once you DO accomplish it, it will be special because most people can´t do it.

Be happy it is difficult!

Because if it was easy it would not be special, and anyone could do it.

So, if you pick something that is difficult, that is a good thing, that means you picked something that is worth doing.

You didn´t pick something that was “bullshit” that anybody can do.

Most people are SOFT (weak) so they don´t pick big goals, or they are not serious, they say they want to be fit and in good shape, they say they want to make a lot of money, they say they want to start a business… but all of that is difficult… It is CRAZY difficult.

So… they make excuses…

“oooh I don´t have time, my job, I got school, my family, and bla bla bla bla bla…

Who gives a f##k!?

NOBODY cares about your bullshit excuses… People ONLY cares about your results.

They don´t care about what you had to go through to get there they ONLY care if you got it.

That´s how it works on planet earth.

Conclusion:

• Get good at enduring pain
• Get good at suffering
• Get good at doing things that people don´t want to do

If you want to be successful you NEED that.

One of my favorite authors is Brian Tracy. He once said:

Successful people do what they are supposed to do whether they feel like it or not

-Brian Tracy

That is discipline, that is toughness.

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Hope you found this blog post on how to get benefits from suffering to be helpful. If you have any questions about this then I will be more than happy to answer them in the comment section below!

I wish you much success! (even if you wish me the opposite)

John

Founder of: $tart Make $top Waste

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