Ayse Durmush
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Tag: Mindset

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Spirit

The Ten Minute Meditation for a Loud Week

Ten minutes is the length nobody argues with and almost nobody protects. It is short enough that no honest person […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
A ten minute meditation for a loud week, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

Decision Fatigue Is Why Your Afternoons Go Wrong

By four in the afternoon most business owners are not tired in the way that sleep fixes. They are decision-tired, […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
How decision fatigue derails your afternoons, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

The Habits of Self-Made Millionaires, Minus the Mythology

Almost everything written about the habits of self-made millionaires suffers from the same flaw. It studies the people who made […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
The real habits behind self-made wealth, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

Strategies From High Performers That Actually Transfer

Most of what gets written about high performers is about their mornings. The routine, the cold water, the hour before […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
High performer strategies that actually transfer, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

Learning From Others Without Copying Them

There is a version of learning from others that makes you worse. You find someone further along, adopt their systems […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Learning from others without copying them, by Ayse Durmush
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Spirit

A Gratitude Practice That Survives a Bad Week

A gratitude practice has a reputation problem, and it has earned most of it. Listing three things you are thankful […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
A gratitude practice that survives a bad week, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

Lessons From Athletes: Why Recovery Is Part of the Work

No serious athlete trains at maximum effort every day. They would be injured within a month and slower within three. […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Why recovery is part of the work, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

What a Business Mentor Actually Does, and When You Need One

I should declare an interest before I start. I do this work, so I am not a neutral party on […]

Ayse Durmush · 9 min read
What a business mentor actually does, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

Why Motivation Is the Wrong Thing to Wait For

Motivation is the most unreliable business input there is. It arrives when the work is already going well and disappears […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Why waiting for motivation stalls progress, by Ayse Durmush
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Spirit

Working With Integrity When Cutting Corners Would Be Easier

Nobody sets out to run a business dishonestly. What actually happens is smaller and slower: a deadline you know you […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Working with integrity when cutting corners is easier, by Ayse Durmush
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Body

Why Your Best Ideas Arrive When You Stop Working

The solution arrives in the shower. Or driving. Or on the third mile of a walk you resented starting. Almost […]

Ayse Durmush · 6 min read
Creative rest and how ideas resolve, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

Saying No Without Losing the Relationship

Most owners are not bad at saying no. They are bad at saying it early. The no exists from the […]

Ayse Durmush · 7 min read
Saying no without losing the relationship, by Ayse Durmush
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Mind

The Comparison Trap and How Business Owners Get Out of It

You know the feeling. A competitor announces something on LinkedIn, and within about ninety seconds you have revised your opinion […]

Ayse Durmush · 7 min read
The comparison trap for business owners, by Ayse Durmush
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Spirit

What to Do When the Business Stops Feeling Like Yours

It rarely announces itself. You do not wake up one morning resenting the thing you built. It arrives as a […]

Ayse Durmush · 7 min read
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Mind

Imposter Syndrome Does Not Go Away, It Changes Shape

The promise most people are quietly waiting for is that one day they will feel qualified. That there is a […]

Ayse Durmush · 8 min read
How imposter syndrome changes shape as you grow, by Ayse Durmush
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Personal Growth

The Skills That Stop Being Optional Once You Grow

Every business has a size at which the founder becomes the constraint. Not because they got worse, but because the […]

Ayse Durmush · 9 min read
Delegation for founders and the bottleneck, by Ayse Durmush
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