Tag: Sam Parr

Being CEO

Idea for team building activity

Chris Labs

You gotta be creative and take that many dollars of budget and make it feel like a trillion dollars of budget. Sam Parr organized a visit to Costco with the employees from The Hustle. In teams of 2 or 4, they were given a 200$ budget and they had 30mins to go into costco and buy the coolest stuff for the office and food for lunch. Everyone was then voting on who had picked the best goods. My First Million, Ep. 299, minute 1:01:10 Continue reading Idea for team building activity

Copywriting, Copywriting Library

Cold Email: Here’s the Best Cold Email You’ll Ever Write

Chris Labs

Neville Medhora explains how this cold email template will make you the Don Draper of email. “Oh, you thought design was more important than copy? And let me guess… you must also stink at cold emailing.” Don Draper is dark, moody, and mysterious in all the right ways. He’s a creative genius who lounges on his office couch, sipping scotch while crafting the perfect slogan to capture the minds of America. All day he sits around, writing the perfect copy and then convinces his clients to spend wads of cash on it. And next thing you know, BOOM – millions … Continue reading Cold Email: Here’s the Best Cold Email You’ll Ever Write

Copywriting Library

Don’t Be Tamed

Chris Labs

Tom Watson, the chairman of IBM, use to read the following story to his employees each year. Read it in full. I promise you’ll feel refreshed, energized and ready to kick today’s ass. The Wild Goose There was once a wild goose and in the fall, around the time for migration, it became aware of a group of tame geese on a farm and stopped by to learn what they were all about. After landing, the wild goose became enamoured with the lifestyle of the tame geese and thought it’d be a shame to fly away from them. Free food, … Continue reading Don’t Be Tamed

Learnings

In six months from now, will you be happy to have started doing this today?

Chris Labs

That’s the way to think about starting boring stuff. Some projects have wonderful long-term results but because these are long-terms, they are pushed back. For example, blogging is a great example. You won’t see results today, but in 6months or a year from now, you’ll be so happy to have written this article when you’re in the google snippets. Same thing for fitness. Sam Parr, My First Million Continue reading In six months from now, will you be happy to have started doing this today?

Being Rich, Happiness

How to think about spending money

Chris Labs

What’s the point of working hard? It’s to make someone, like your wife, proud and happy. Just don’t be cheap on the things that actually matters. Dude you’re never gonna go out of the country again with your family. It’s the one thing that they will never stop talking about. The whole point of working hard is to spend my money on stuff that will make my family happy and that they will talk about forever. -Sam Parr, MFM #201 Continue reading How to think about spending money

Being Rich

Sample your lifestyle

Chris Labs

Whether you think you want a fancy car, a chef or a gigantic house, you think that because you’ve never experienced it. Maybe you want a ferrari, then you buy one to realize that driving a 400k car is too stressful and the enjoyment you get out of it is nothing compared to the worrying it causes you. That’s why, before making any purchase, go out and test it. Usually the result is that you want that thing 10x more or 10x less You want a chef? Well hire one for a dinner with friends. Experience what it’s like to … Continue reading Sample your lifestyle