What separates achievers from ultra-achievers may have less to do with how much they practice, or how gifted they are, than it does with one specific habit. Read more:

The curse of ambition is most high achievers measure success not by excitement but by exhaustion. If you haven’t fully physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted yourself, it’s hard to sleep at night.

🏆 Round 6 is heating up. The final Marathon round before #STEPNathon# is bringing out the most consistent squads. Current top teams: 🥇 Achiever 🥈 ARPHA 🥉 StepnRU Every bit of Energy matters now, and some teams are making a serious final push before the finale. Is your squad holding strong or making a comeback? Drop your team name and current rank 👇

Do we ever really learn the art of risk-taking? Oscar-winning filmmaker and elite mountaineer, Jimmy Chin, shares how high achievers find courage in his new book. 5 principles from Chin’s book on how to live more by fearing less:

Do we ever really learn the art of risk-taking? Oscar-winning filmmaker and elite mountaineer, Jimmy Chin, shares how high achievers find courage in his new book. 5 principles from Chin’s book on how to live more by fearing less:

Do we ever really learn the art of risk-taking? Oscar-winning filmmaker and elite mountaineer, Jimmy Chin, shares how high achievers find courage in his new book. 5 principles from Chin’s book on how to live more by fearing less:

🏆 Round 3 Team Leaderboard Check-in The battle for the top spots is on. Here are the teams currently leading Round 3 👇 🥇 Achiever 🥈 ROFSL 🥉 StepnRU If they hold their positions until the end of the round, every team member will receive: 🥇 1st: 5 GGBoxes + 3 Keys 🥈 2nd: 5 GGBoxes + 2 Keys 🥉 3rd: 5 GGBoxes + 1 Key But nothing is decided yet 👀 Keep moving, support your teammates, and push for the podium before Round 3 ends. Which team are you backing? 👇

On Emirati Women's Day, we celebrate the vision, resilience and achievements of Emirati women, and the vital role they play in shaping the nation's future. In the spirit of this year's theme, "We Emerge Stronger and Better," we remain committed to empowering the next generation of Emirati women leaders and entrepreneurs. Through our partnership with startAD, we've backed programs cultivating that talent, including the Impact Hub for Emirati Women Achievers, which supported visionary Emirati women in business and innovation with coaching, leadership training and networks. With 77.6% of women-owned businesses led by entrepreneurs under 40, the next generation of women is already playing an important role in the UAE's entrepreneurial landscape. #EmiratiWomensDay# #Agility# في يوم المرأة الإماراتية، نحتفي برؤية المرأة الإماراتية وصمودها وإنجازاتها، وبدورها المحوري في رسم ملامح مستقبل دولة الإمارات. وتماشياً مع شعار هذا العام «بنظهر الأقوى والأفضل»، نؤكد التزامنا بتمكين الجيل الجديد من القيادات النسائية ورائدات الأعمال الإماراتيات. ومن خلال شراكتنا مع منصة «ستارت إيه دي»، ساهمنا في دعم البرامج التي تهدف إلى تنمية هذه المواهب، بما في ذلك «مركز تأثير الإماراتيات المنجزات»، الذي يقدم الدعم للنساء الإماراتيات الطموحات في مجالي الأعمال والابتكار عبر التوجيه والتدريب على القيادة وبناء شبكات العلاقات. ومع قيادة رائدات أعمال دون سن الأربعين لنسبة 77.6% من الشركات المملوكة للسيدات، يبرز دور الجيل الجديد من النساء كعنصر فاعل وأساسي في مشهد ريادة الأعمال في دولة الإمارات. #يوم_المرأة_الإماراتية# #أجيليتي#

As an ambitious former hedge fund PM, now current entrepreneur, it's always been hard for me to turn my mind off. I got to a point maybe 10 years ago where I could really never relax, and it got to be too much. Even on the weekend, with my young kids, my mind was active with work problems and it was hard for me to be truly present to the moment. Not only is this a hard way to live, but I found myself showing up Monday morning intellectually fried. I eventually wore myself out so severely that I needed many months away from work to feel "normal" again. Maybe you feel this way. If you do, ahead of this holiday weekend, I wanted to two few rituals I've learned along the way that helped me. Ritual 1: Empty Your Head on Paper. Write for 3-5 minutes (pen and paper always best) about all the work-related problems still bouncing around in your head. People to call, ideas, problems, things you're worried about. Get it out of your head, onto paper. Even better, ask whatever higher entity feels personal to you to help you untie these knots over the weekend ("dear God/guides/Universe, here are a few things I am struggling with, please help me on these over the next 48 hours"). It's woo-woo, but it works, and I instantly feel better, like I've done something crafty but temporarily assigning my struggles to a higher, wiser entity. Those "aha" moments have a way of finding themselves into my brain come Sunday afternoon, and this sort of work can be just as or even more powerful than more hours behind a computer screen. Ritual 2: Self Talk, "I Did Enough This Week": Look at yourself in the mirror, and tell yourself, "you did enough this week...I did enough this week". Celebrate the progress you've made and what you completed, get into gratitude and thank yourself for all the progress you made. This shifts the anxiety of "I didn't do enough this week" to "you did enough this week", and that kindness with yourself will cause a subtle but important energy shift. Just be kind to yourself. High achievers are very good at flogging themselves into hard work. There's a time for that, too. But be kind to yourself as well. For me, when I'm busy (and I've been quite busy lately, working long hours), this stuff just makes me feel better. And even in the context of long hours, tight deadlines & big opportunities, just slightly, makes work feel a bit more like play. Try it out. Maybe it will work for you, too. I hope everyone has a great holiday weekend with their families. Mrs. Caughran on a sister trip so the Caughran boys are excited for the first ASU football game tomorrow night and riding our new jetskis on Lake Saguaro. Go Devils!

Achievement Unlocked: 2,000 apes welcomed since we started Welcome Apes on 2/12/24. 🤯 🦍 Pretty incredible to think about. When we started this, the idea was simple. Nobody should join the bored ape yacht club and feel like they're standing in an empty room. If someone decides to become an ape, the least we can do is open the door, say hello, and make them feel like they belong. One thing we've really noticed lately is that the people finding their way into the club seem a little different. A lot of these folks have been around Web3 for years. They've lived through the cycles, the rugs, the hype, the disappointments, and everything else this crazy space has thrown at us. And after all of that, they're choosing to be here. We think that says something pretty powerful about what this club has become. In a space where so much is temporary, transactional, and everyone seems to be chasing the next big thing, there's something genuinely special about people finding their way here because they want to be part of something bigger than themselves. We've always believed that the real value of this club is its people. The friendships, the camaraderie, the willingness to show up for one another. That's the stuff that survives the cycles. To everyone who's taken a few moments out of their day to welcome a new ape, strike up a conversation, or make a complete stranger feel like they're already part of the family, thank you. That's what this whole thing has always been about. 2,000 welcomes later, we believe in that simple idea more than ever. The club isn't just part of the journey. The club is the destination. Welcome home. 🍌