If you are not bored too much, you are doing wrong. You should be bored. Then find interesting ideas or people. Some of them are not interesting after a while, then repeat the initial process again and again.

Be bored, my friend. Boredom is great.

Last week, I turned 35. My last decade looks like

24- Moved to San Francisco🌉 from 🇹🇷

25- Couldn’t find job & Rejected by Stanford MBA 🏫

25.5- Sold 👟 at Nordstrom & Dropped Santa Clara MBA🎓

26- Started MobileAction 📱

27- Raised Angel & Seed Round💸

29- Failed to raise Series A☹️

30- Launched SearchAds.com 🚀

31- Married 👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️

32- Bought my first 🏡

33- Became a father 👨‍👧

34- Profitable. 70+% Cash Flow Margin💰

There is no right or wrong time to do anything you want. Don’t compare & compete yourself with someone else.

Play your game🙏🏻🚀

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I turned 35 today. I’m blessed and very happy to have 2 weeks vacation with family. That’s why I took 2-3 weeks off writing daily. I needed time off to observe life & keep it internally.

New age, new time, same growth mindset.

I’ve been in Athens since last Friday. So I can say people are living their life.

They are not working just to make money. They are working to full their life. Everything is quite cheap here compared to any major city in the USA. The main reason is people are making much less than we do. But, they seem pretty happy and relaxed. I was here 5 years ago; people were depressed and had no hope too much about their economy. Seems like they are very optimistic these days.

Extra observation: Even touristic places are quite reasonable for tourists to spend money without breaking the bank. The main reason is they want visitors to keep coming to visit Athens. Of course, Santorini and Mykonos are way expensive than Athens but still it’s alright for someone who lives in SF Bay Area:)

What is your worst scenario?

Multiple 3X whatever you come up with. 

Are you well prepared for that scenario?

Or are you praying nothing should happen?

I believe you can do more than praying. 

You did all your preparation. You are ready. Time to call your companions. Your time came. 

June was not a productive month for me to write here. I usually write and publish even 1-2 sentences, but I couldn’t do it in June for many reasons If I want to find.

Let me try to go back to my old routine in July. I’m mostly traveling in July, like June anyway but somehow, writing on this blog is something I have to do. Without writing, I don’t really satisfy my life. That means June was an excellent month for many reasons, but less writing makes me less happy.

It’s a great feeling to know somebody believes you. Their motivation is pure love. But how do you trust and accept those people at the beginning of your relationship? How do you know they are the true ones?

My answer is live & learn. Trust your gut feeling. Your Energy attracts your kind of energy anyway.

 I was in Tel Aviv for the last four days. It’s one of my favorite cities in the world. So lively and energetic. I felt at home. It’s like a Turkey but with more mixed cultures and dynamics ( Jews from all over the world moved) and a state of a startup.

I had a chance to visit my favorite restaurants and found new ones. Also, exchange notes with our customers & partners from Tel Aviv. 

Today, I came back to SF. We had to wait on the airplane for almost 1 hour to start the custom officer’s shift (6 am), and it was a smooth process. When the officer asked me couple of questions about what I brought from Israel and the purpose of the trip there- then he said to me, “ Welcome Home, Sir.” 

That’s so true for me. I love cool spots from all over the world but America is my home. 

If you are surrounded by a bunch of ants, your goal is to be the biggest/strongest ant. But it doesn’t matter how big you are; that situation doesn’t change your identity. You are ant

Don’t try to fight or compete yourself with Elephant. You might be going to the same place with Elephant’s Ear or back, don’t take that for granted and start to demand more from Elephant.