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Mindset
“If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand” - Bob Proctor
Ryan Jones
Email: ryan@serverlessguru.com
LinkedIn: ryanjonesirl
Twitter: ryanjonesirl
Founder & CEO, Serverless Guru
Corporations vs Startups
Corporations
Corporations
Work life balance
Support system is established
Role is clearly defined
Consistent and predictable work
There is a team/person that can help
you solve your problem
Things move slowly
Small fish in a big pond
Slower career growth
Daily tasks reflect bullet points from the
job description
Check out this article on working for startup vs a large company, here
Startups
Startups
Huge Impact
Wear a lot of hats
Flexible schedule/location
Grow extremely fast
Manage yourself
Ability to experiment
Unguided
Responsibilities change quickly
Less of a support system
Multitasking a lot of projects
Uncertain company future
Set deadlines for yourself
Check out this article on working for startup vs a large company, here
Self Evaluation
Questions to Ask Yourself
What did I come here to achieve?
Based on the time I’m putting in, what will I be qualified for when I graduate?
Am I okay with that?
If no, what do I need to change or learn to become qualified?
What is the most important thing you could be working on in the
world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you?
- Aaron Swartz
Increasing Productivity
Bullet Journal
● Short term task management
● 3-5 most important things to get done tomorrow
● Record daily tasks and track progress
● Record your ideas/goals/?
● Week review and evaluation
Format:
⚫ - todo
X - done
> - forward, next day
►- forward, end of week
Week Review:
What was good?
What can be improved?
Next week
Outstanding Tasks
Trello Board
● Long term task management (e.g. side projects)
● Great for tracking project specific ideas or future content/features
● Think deeply about what’s involved in building your project
● Break apart your project into small pieces
● Slowly work through your project and track your progress
Remove Distractions
● Put your phone on silent or in your bag
● Turn off notifications or put them to sleep for a few hours
● Practice being aware of phone usage
● Noise cancelling headphones + white noise
● Plan around your distractions
● Wake up earlier than your responsibilities
5 Second Rule
Mel Robbins
5 Second Rule (By: Mel Robbins)
Process:
● Catch yourself becoming distracted, procrastinating, or anxious
● Count backwards from five.. 5..4..3..2..1
● Anchor thought, think a happy thought to stabilize your brain
● Take immediate action
Check out this video by Mel Robbins, here
Put yourself in a place to be
successful
Personal Brand
Personal Brand: LinkedIn
● Update skills frequently
● Rearrange information to better express who you are
● Add certifications and courses as you finish them
● Tag an organization in your post to generate traffic (when it makes sense)
● Update your job descriptions with bullet points about your impact/value
● Write articles and short posts that add credibility to the story you’re telling
Wake Up Early
Wake Up Early
Schedule (M-F):
5:30am-9am: Personal
9am-6pm: Job
6pm-10pm: Free time
Extra time:
Every Week: +17.5 hrs
Every Month: +70 hrs
Every Year: +840 hrs
By waking up at 5:30 AM **and working (M-F):
Every month you’re putting in nearly two extra 40 hr work weeks.
Every year you’re putting in more than five extra months worth of work.
Work Hard
Work Hard
Push yourself everyday to improve, 1% difference makes all the difference..
Keep detailed work notes using a markdown file to get moving faster..
Find ways to automate and speed up your repetitive daily tasks..
Work like there is someone already lined up to take your job..
Be humble, everyone can be replaced so even when you achieve, keep pushing..
Drop the ego and don’t live off past achievement, it will only slow you down..
Find Your Niche
Find Your Niche:
How:
Research different areas in your field
Identify areas that you find interesting with current/future upside
Experiment to see if it’s something you enjoy
Pursue it completely
Find Your Niche:
Benefits:
Be sought out by companies who need your specialty
Earn more money
Gain confidence in your abilities
Add value to any company you join
Accelerate your career to senior roles and responsibilities
It’s better to be prepared and not have an opportunity, then to have
an opportunity and not be prepared.
- Les Brown
Mentors
Gary Vee
Eric Thomas
Les Brown
Jay Shetty
David Goggins
Simon Sinek
Jim Rohn
Will Smith
**Click on them to watch an inspirational/motivational video by them
This is the end
Q/A: Main Points
● Corporation vs Startup
● Self Evaluation
● Increasing Productivity
○ Bullet Journal
○ Trello Boards
○ Removing Distractions
○ 5 sec rule
● Putting yourself in a place to
be successful
○ Personal Brand: LinkedIn
○ Wake Up Early
○ Growth Mindset
○ Find Your Niche
● Mentors
Ryan Jones
Email: ryan@serverlessguru.com
LinkedIn: ryanjonesirl
Twitter: ryanjonesirl
Founder & CEO, Serverless Guru

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Mindset by Ryan Jones

  • 1. Mindset “If you see it in your mind, you will hold it in your hand” - Bob Proctor
  • 2. Ryan Jones Email: ryan@serverlessguru.com LinkedIn: ryanjonesirl Twitter: ryanjonesirl Founder & CEO, Serverless Guru
  • 5. Corporations Work life balance Support system is established Role is clearly defined Consistent and predictable work There is a team/person that can help you solve your problem Things move slowly Small fish in a big pond Slower career growth Daily tasks reflect bullet points from the job description Check out this article on working for startup vs a large company, here
  • 7. Startups Huge Impact Wear a lot of hats Flexible schedule/location Grow extremely fast Manage yourself Ability to experiment Unguided Responsibilities change quickly Less of a support system Multitasking a lot of projects Uncertain company future Set deadlines for yourself Check out this article on working for startup vs a large company, here
  • 9. Questions to Ask Yourself What did I come here to achieve? Based on the time I’m putting in, what will I be qualified for when I graduate? Am I okay with that? If no, what do I need to change or learn to become qualified?
  • 10. What is the most important thing you could be working on in the world right now? ... And if you're not working on that, why aren't you? - Aaron Swartz
  • 12. Bullet Journal ● Short term task management ● 3-5 most important things to get done tomorrow ● Record daily tasks and track progress ● Record your ideas/goals/? ● Week review and evaluation
  • 13. Format: ⚫ - todo X - done > - forward, next day ►- forward, end of week Week Review: What was good? What can be improved? Next week Outstanding Tasks
  • 14. Trello Board ● Long term task management (e.g. side projects) ● Great for tracking project specific ideas or future content/features ● Think deeply about what’s involved in building your project ● Break apart your project into small pieces ● Slowly work through your project and track your progress
  • 15.
  • 16. Remove Distractions ● Put your phone on silent or in your bag ● Turn off notifications or put them to sleep for a few hours ● Practice being aware of phone usage ● Noise cancelling headphones + white noise ● Plan around your distractions ● Wake up earlier than your responsibilities
  • 17. 5 Second Rule Mel Robbins
  • 18. 5 Second Rule (By: Mel Robbins) Process: ● Catch yourself becoming distracted, procrastinating, or anxious ● Count backwards from five.. 5..4..3..2..1 ● Anchor thought, think a happy thought to stabilize your brain ● Take immediate action Check out this video by Mel Robbins, here
  • 19. Put yourself in a place to be successful
  • 21. Personal Brand: LinkedIn ● Update skills frequently ● Rearrange information to better express who you are ● Add certifications and courses as you finish them ● Tag an organization in your post to generate traffic (when it makes sense) ● Update your job descriptions with bullet points about your impact/value ● Write articles and short posts that add credibility to the story you’re telling
  • 23. Wake Up Early Schedule (M-F): 5:30am-9am: Personal 9am-6pm: Job 6pm-10pm: Free time Extra time: Every Week: +17.5 hrs Every Month: +70 hrs Every Year: +840 hrs By waking up at 5:30 AM **and working (M-F): Every month you’re putting in nearly two extra 40 hr work weeks. Every year you’re putting in more than five extra months worth of work.
  • 25. Work Hard Push yourself everyday to improve, 1% difference makes all the difference.. Keep detailed work notes using a markdown file to get moving faster.. Find ways to automate and speed up your repetitive daily tasks.. Work like there is someone already lined up to take your job.. Be humble, everyone can be replaced so even when you achieve, keep pushing.. Drop the ego and don’t live off past achievement, it will only slow you down..
  • 27. Find Your Niche: How: Research different areas in your field Identify areas that you find interesting with current/future upside Experiment to see if it’s something you enjoy Pursue it completely
  • 28. Find Your Niche: Benefits: Be sought out by companies who need your specialty Earn more money Gain confidence in your abilities Add value to any company you join Accelerate your career to senior roles and responsibilities
  • 29. It’s better to be prepared and not have an opportunity, then to have an opportunity and not be prepared. - Les Brown
  • 31. Gary Vee Eric Thomas Les Brown Jay Shetty David Goggins Simon Sinek Jim Rohn Will Smith **Click on them to watch an inspirational/motivational video by them
  • 32. This is the end
  • 33. Q/A: Main Points ● Corporation vs Startup ● Self Evaluation ● Increasing Productivity ○ Bullet Journal ○ Trello Boards ○ Removing Distractions ○ 5 sec rule ● Putting yourself in a place to be successful ○ Personal Brand: LinkedIn ○ Wake Up Early ○ Growth Mindset ○ Find Your Niche ● Mentors
  • 34. Ryan Jones Email: ryan@serverlessguru.com LinkedIn: ryanjonesirl Twitter: ryanjonesirl Founder & CEO, Serverless Guru

Editor's Notes

  1. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my talk on Mindset. I’ll leave you with a quote which is at the core of this talk, “if you can see it in your mind you can hold it in your hand”. If you have any questions, please ask. I know sometimes it’s hard to think of a question when prompted so I’ll briefly show a list of things we talked about in case that is helpful.
  2. Positive: Work life balance - At a corporation, the division between work and your outside life are established. You can look to other employees and mirror their schedules without the stress of if you’re working too little. Support System - When you or run into issues outside of work, there are usually protocols and systems in place to allow everything to run smoothly while you’re out.
  3. The are my opinion partly from working, but also recognizing that people see things differently. For instance, your work being unguided may be a turnoff. Where I actually enjoy being able to make a bit more decisions. Unguided (learn what needs to be learned, do what needs to be done) Lack of support system (can sometimes be overwhelming when facing challenges) Multitasking a lot of projects (overwhelming if you don’t feel like you’re making enough progress) Unknown future - Hopefully, the startup you join does not have this problem, but depending on the company it could easily collapse over the next year if the app doesn’t gain traction
  4. The skills you will develop while going through this process will make you more productive, but it will also make you a bigger value add when you start working as a developer. People may look at this and say it’s Project Management. I don’t want to be a Project Manager, I want to be a developer. I hear this about DevOps as well, people don’t want to learn DevOps because they want to be a developer. I’m here to tell you that if you have the opportunity to learn and you don’t, someone else will be. Most likely there are a handful of people in this room, who look at this information from a different perspective. They look at it as, “oh man this is how I get ahead”. The same way I looked at it back when I attended Wednesday talks while I was at Epicodus.
  5. The skills you will develop while going through this process will make you more productive, but it will also make you a bigger value add when you start working as a developer. People may look at this and say it’s Project Management. I don’t want to be a Project Manager, I want to be a developer. I hear this about DevOps as well, people don’t want to learn DevOps because they want to be a developer. I’m here to tell you that if you have the opportunity to learn and you don’t, someone else will be. Most likely there are a handful of people in this room, who look at this information from a different perspective. They look at it as, “oh man this is how I get ahead”. The same way I looked at it back when I attended Wednesday talks while I was at Epicodus.
  6. Not face up on the table. If you want to be more dramatic toss your phone inside your backpack and zip it up over the ear + white noise, I listen to YouTube white noise sometimes 4 hours a day take control of what you give your attention too When I’m starting my day, we have a quick standup meeting through Slack. Which is a group messaging app. In our standup we talk about what we did yesterday, what we’re doing today, and if there are any blockers. It honestly helps sometimes, but other times it interrupts your focus. So lately the first thing I do is write down my responses to the questions. Then when it automatically starts at 10am, I copy/paste. Then put my company slack notifications on snooze until lunch, turn on white noise, and work
  7. What I’ve found: snap your brain out of the bad habit loop and go something that makes you happy, what it will feel like when you accomplish your goal I did this when preparing this presentation, it was Saturday morning, beautiful outside and I live downtown. I woke up early in the morning and pushed myself to sit down at the computer to start. However, the second I opened google docs I started to get this feeling rush over me saying, come back later. So I counted 54321, snapped my brain out of it, thought about the feeling of giving a good presentation, and I pushed myself to start writing a few lines) I’ve used this to help get out of bed and stopping myself from procrastinating Using to snap yourself out of bad habits
  8. What I’ve found: snap your brain out of the bad habit loop and go something that makes you happy, what it will feel like when you accomplish your goal I did this when preparing this presentation, it was Saturday morning, beautiful outside and I live downtown. I woke up early in the morning and pushed myself to sit down at the computer to start. However, the second I opened google docs I started to get this feeling rush over me saying, come back later. So I counted 54321, snapped my brain out of it, thought about the feeling of giving a good presentation, and I pushed myself to start writing a few lines) I’ve used this to help get out of bed and stopping myself from procrastinating Using to snap yourself out of bad habits
  9. Following the advice in previous slides, should get you moving down the path. But, let’s talk about a few more ways you can put yourself in a place to be successful
  10. Whether you are actively working on your personal brand or not you still have one. Your personal brand communicates who you are, why you have value, and informs employers that you are someone they should hire. LinkedIn is specifically important. On LinkedIn the ability to grow your network and gain attention by writing articles or thoughtful posts is incredible. We are living through the greatest period in history for growing your career quickly. By investing time in updating your skills, rearranging your information, adding certifications/courses, updating job history with meaningful bullet points of how you made an impact in the projects you worked on, and making strategic posts to frame yourself in the way you want. You will have companies knocking on your door. This is how I got the job at Nike and also how I got the job at Mode2. I’ve also met with a couple of startups who reached out on LinkedIn for assistance with AWS and Serverless development because I’ve framed myself as an expert.
  11. Whether you are actively working on your personal brand or not you still have one. Your personal brand communicates who you are, why you have value, and informs employers that you are someone they should hire. LinkedIn is specifically important. On LinkedIn the ability to grow your network and gain attention by writing articles or thoughtful posts is incredible. We are living through the greatest period in history for growing your career quickly. By investing time in updating your skills, rearranging your information, adding certifications/courses, updating job history with meaningful bullet points of how you made an impact in the projects you worked on, and making strategic posts to frame yourself in the way you want. You will have companies knocking on your door. This is how I got the job at Nike and also how I got the job at Mode2. I’ve also met with a couple of startups who reached out on LinkedIn for assistance with AWS and Serverless development because I’ve framed myself as an expert.
  12. Not hard to get ahead when you are putting in two extra weeks of work every month. Meaning every month that you consistently wake up at 5:30am only Monday-Friday not on the weekend, you’re giving yourself nearly two extra 40hr work weeks to work on your goals. I don’t know about you but this motivates the hell out of me. This is something that really is overlooked quite a bit. The most successful people in the world wake up early. They do this because it allows them the time and uninterrupted focus to work on what they care about and get ahead. I wake up every morning at 5:30am. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I go to the gym at 6am. I get home at 7am and I’m dressed/ready to work at 7:30am. I don’t start work till 9am, so I give myself an extra 1 ½ hours of time to work on my personal goals Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Tuesday and Thursday I’m dressed/ready to work at 6:30am at the latest. Giving me an extra 2 ½ hours to work on my personal goals on Tuesday and Thursday. Let’s add this up. I also work on my personal goals on the weekend, but let’s leave that time out.
  13. Working hard is one of the only things that we have control over and a key to getting ahead. I just talked about the power of waking up early and to a large degree these two points are related. However, let’s look at it from the perspective of your job or career. Let me set the scene, one month after graduating from Epicodus I started working at Nike in the Innovation Engineering Department as a contractor. I started on a small team where I was one of only two developers on my team. During my stay at Nike multiple developers were fired on my team for not performing or meshing with our team dynamic. Resulting in a wake up call that as a contractor you could be let go at any point and *poof* it’s like you didn’t exist. See everyday at Nike they receive thousands of job applications and the second one of my team members was let go, they had interviews lined up a couple days later. Something similar happened when I put in my two weeks notice. So I say all this being really serious. Getting ahead is awesome and you should feel great. However, staying ahead takes consistently showing up and working hard.
  14. Go all in
  15. think 2x more then devs with the same amount of experience but lack your specialty even next to highly experienced developers because you know something they don't due to having a specialty they probably hired you for by doing things others don't like to do or don't know how to do, doors will just open up
  16. This is only a few of the people that I listen to repeatedly. Everyday I listen to inspiration and motivation. I seek out inspiration and motivation not because I lack it, but because I need to condition myself to dream bigger than my situation. Those people mentioned above embody the principles of how to dream big and chase those dreams. Those are my coaches and my mentors. I think it’s important that you seek out people who will push you to dream bigger and hold you accountable. Although, I have not met these people in person they are who I rely on to give me guidance when I’m trying to figure out what to do. Each one of them comes from different backgrounds, hardships, and they cover a wide variety of topics.
  17. Thank you for taking the time to listen to my talk on Mindset. I’ll leave you with a quote which is at the core of this talk, “if you can see it in your mind you can hold it in your hand”. If you have any questions, please ask. I know sometimes it’s hard to think of a question when prompted so I’ll briefly show a list of things we talked about in case that is helpful.