What You Become
On this solemn day, a reminder of the most fundamental of truths:
The mind is everything. What you think you become. – Siddharta (aka Buddha)
That is all.
The two hardest things to handle in life are failure & success. – Anonymous . . . you’re going to live very well. The trick with failing is to learn from it and keep going – and to realize that no defeat is permanent The trick with success is to learn from it and keep going…
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. – Thomas Jefferson I’ve blogged on this one before, but it bears repeating. To achieve a good attitude is necessary, but not sufficient. The wrong attitude however, will negate everything…
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. – Arthur Rubinstein But you must go first. An amazing life will not come find you. It won’t yank you off the couch and give you the interest, skills and energy to do great, fun, amazing, important things. It will meet you…
A schedule defends from chaos and whim. – Annie Dillard Humans are distractible. Humans thrive on the feeling (and reality) of progress. But if we’re not intentional and don’t have a system, we won’t make any progress. The primary reason so few people don’t have what they want is because they aren’t willing to write it…
I’ll give you the bad news first, so you can get the good news last. The bad news is that you cannot manage time. To the extent that time is even real (it’s a construction of humans . . . ), it is immutable. Your perception of time can change, but you can’t control it,…
You can do anything once you stop trying to do everything. – Eric Barker Why would anyone try to everything anyways? One possibility: to please. Trying to please others. Trying to please the idea we have in our heads about what people want from us. Trying to do enough and make people happy. Why? Because…