Competitors

Competitors are great to push you next level. You shouldn’t obsess their every single product shipment or feature sets.

If you are chasing a big market, having multiple competitors drive innovation and better customer experience.

At the end of the day, we are not building products, we are solving customer’s problems.

Good managers focus on revenue and customers. Bad managers focus the team on how many features competitors are building.

Keep trying

Habits are great. Especially the ones it comes from natural needs. Sometimes it takes time to figure out what you really like.

Try new things and figure out what’s best suit for you.

Sleep

I feel that sleeping is still underrated. Every single of us might be heard: “ You don’t have to sleep too much” or “I’ll sleep when I die”.

I figure out good & quality of sleep can change your life. I almost read more than 50+ articles and a couple of books about sleep. My final takeaway you need to sleep a minimum of 8 hours of sleep to function your body and mind probably.

Have a good sleep:)

Read fiction book for the first thing of the day.

I have been doing it since last week. Pretty much, I do read 10 pages fiction book for the first thing of the day. It helps me to broadens my perspective and zoom out myself from the daily rush.

Don’t forget :

  • Don’t check your phone first thing on the morning

  • Keep your book by your bed. I do read before sleep too

  • Read-only fiction books. Avoid newspapers, blog etc.

Selfish

As far as I know, being yourself is a good thing. However, you might be called “selfish.” Then what you need to answer?

If you already feel you are not selfish at all because it’s you. Just move on, say thank you.

And ask a question:

Self. Ish. Ish means ‘more of,’ so being selfish is being more of yourself. Don’t you want me to be more of myself ?”

Deadline

Having a deadline is going to change your life. Why am I saying this?

In the last couple of weeks, I see so many things I achieved almost all of them had a deadline time. If you don’t have a deadline, you most likely not to accomplish. You still make what you want to have; however, you might be missing the opportunity of the right timing.

If you are working something, just put a deadline time. Even if you miss the deadline time you still able to figure out what’s your priorities instead of thinking what you need

Loving everyone

I love anyone and everyone. I don’t feel any negative or harsh feelings for any human being. Sometimes I keep asking myself why am I like that?

I hear time to time some people are talking about others. Like they did to me this and that. Don’t understand why they are spending their valuable time and energy, someone, not even in that room:)

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Ankara

It’s been a while I want to write every day. Let’s try this service; Maybe it’ll help me to write short and handy tips for people like me. Who am I? My name is Aykut Karaalioglu. I born and raised in Ankara, which is the capital city of Turkey. If you ask me how you describe the town three words: gray, books and buildings, that was my Ankara.

My early memories from my childhood, my dad was reading a book. I was probably three years old at random neighborhood those gray apartment buildings.