Real progress vs. fake progress

Yann Girard
Thought Pills
Published in
1 min readJun 19, 2016

by Yann Girard

Checking your mail is fake progress.

Simply deleting 95% of your mails is real progress.

Updating your LinkedIn account is fake progress.

Just like going to networking events is fake progress.

Getting stuff done and shipping things is real progress.

Reading about entrepreneurship is fake progress.

Heck, even starting a startup is fake progress.

Working on being able to make money on your own is real progress.

Working on creating your freedom is real progress.

Fake progress is what everybody else does.

And when you do what everybody else does, when you’re just keeping pace with everybody else, then that’s just not enough for the competitive world we’re now living in.

Real progress is what nobody else does.

Real progress gives you an advantage, simply because nobody else out there does it.

And that’s how you make real progress…

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