Feeling like you have enough is a great feeling Are your belongings real or imagined? The most satisfying form of freedom is not a life without responsibilities, but a life where you are free to choose your responsibilities. Try to keep up with the person you want to be John, rather than with the “Joneses” …
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Post # 52
Your kids wont be what you want them to be. Are you what your parents wanted you to be? Less failure doesn’t equal more success. More failure equals more success. It’s easier to act yourself into a new way of thinking than think yourself into a new way of acting. What happens when you get …
Post # 51
You have to be both. You have to be arrogant enough to think you can make it but NOT so egotistical that you stop learning Fashion is about how it makes you feel, which literally affects your reality The vast majority of your life may be bland and not noteworthy and that is okay Life`s …
Post # 50
All across time we’ve only had 24 hours in a day. All across time. We all had the same amount of daily time to succeed. You are only tending to be who you were yesterday. You can change who you are with pharmacology, serious crisis and/or various forms of meditation Often, done is better than …
Post # 49
clinging too tightly to past experience robs us from fully appreciating new experience A mind stretched by a new experience can never go back to its former dimensions “he has now become the person who he envisioned himself to be” we don’t really know how we got here we don’t really know why we’re here …
Post # 48
Don’t forget, you’re gonna live Behavior is a combination of genetics and nurture/environmental factors The journey is the goal If I can breathe I can choose “Everyone can learn to fight with Jiu Jitsu But it’s about applying Jiu jitsu to your personal life, that part is more difficult” “No, I have a goal and …
Post # 47
Courage is not evenly distributed in the species Interesting. It seems Socrates never cried and Jesus never laughed. Stop following only your passion and also follow what the market needs We cannot accurately use AI to predict something that has never happened before. Unfortunately, we will never have data on actions not taken Remember, if …
Post # 46
Stop identifying with the mean voice in your head. It’s just trying to keep you alive Your greatest talents are often right next to (metaphorically) your greats pains You’re going to deal with it (whatever is going on in your head) whether you choose to explicitly deal with it or not Your dreams are possible. …
Post # 45
Don’t believe everything you think A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings – Jane Austen How have I been complicit in creating situations I say I don’t want? We are never so defenseless as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we …
Post # 44
Maybe we need to struggle for meaning, we just need to struggle well. The satisfaction of success doesn’t come from achieving your goals but from struggling well – Ray Dalio Be still, be silent, pay attention Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is the power to choose your response. In …