Avoid your way to success

Success is largely the failures you avoid.
Health is the injuries you don’t sustain.
Wealth is the purchases you don’t make.
Happiness is the objects you don’t desire.
Peace of mind is the arguments you don’t engage.
Avoid the bad to protect the good.
– JamesClear

It’s interesting how we think we need to do that one thing to succeed, but actually success in any field is mostly about avoiding the the common pitfalls that everyone encounters.

Want to be a successful indie hacker solopreneur who earns more than $10k MRR? Just avoid these things:

• Avoid huge expenses if you can.
• Avoid chasing shiny objects and distractions.
• Avoid listening to people who have no skin in the game.
• Avoid building in isolation.
• Avoid being lazy about marketing.
• Avoid perfectionism - it’s just fear of failure in trenchcoat.
• Avoid overplanning, paralysis by analysis. Prioritise action.
• Avoid burnout - long term consistency wins every time.
• Avoid vanity metrics. The best metric is money in the bank.
• Avoid trying to be unique, just be useful.

That’s it. Just ten things to avoid.

That’s all there is.