There’s a balance involved in being productive and living well. Work, but don’t overwork. Plan, but don’t obsess. Pursue, but pursue the journey of getting better inside, not outside.
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Once you get momentum, you’re golden. You’re literally a hot streak away from changing your life. If you can take a hot streak and convert it into sustainable progress, you won’t have to rely on massive amounts of motivation to keep getting better.
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The moral of the story: this is a crazy, weird, complicated, joyful, terrible, awesome, obstacle-filled, roller coaster ride of a journey. Give yourself credit for even trying to navigate it.
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You’ve already been through moments where the reality of a situation wasn’t as bad as your anticipation of it. Remember those moments the next time you’re afraid to take a leap.
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You’re worried about what people will think of you — but people are often so preoccupied with themselves that you can pretty much do what you want in a state of anonymity.
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You can’t find contentment in easy payments of $99.99. What you can do, however, is learn from a wide variety of people, take what works, discard what doesn’t, and create a tailor-made education that suits you.
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You can perform a task without feeling like doing it. You can enter a situation boldly even if you don’t have confidence. You can attempt a path even though you’ve failed at every other attempt and don’t think you can do it now.
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You’re afraid to fail pretty much because you want to avoid the intense and strong feeling of embarrassment, rejection, or feeling like a fool for thinking you had the right to try to be successful in the first place.
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You already have everything you need to be successful. You’re just letting certain things get in the way of that success. Mostly, you’re getting in the way of that success.
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We have to let go of the idea that potential matters. It doesn’t. What matters? Reality, results, outcomes, and the actual process it takes to achieve all the above.
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Life is measured by…whatever criteria you use to measure it by. You can make it feel short or you can make it feel long. You can use the scarcity of time to your advantage or let it hold you back. The choice is yours.
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We trick ourselves into living below our potential to protect our ego and our identity. And then when we do try to set high expectations for ourselves, we only kind of sort of do it so we still have that out.
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Learn to dance and play with the situations in your life, with your emotions, with your goals, and with the entire story, you tell yourself about your existence.
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Feel fortunate that you live in a gatekeeper free world where you have so much access to education, technology, and other people that your limits and oppression are almost entirely psychological.
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Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, you have to find a way to manage that chicken-egg scenario where you need confidence to start but you have to start to have confidence.
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Your mind is this self-fulfilling prophecy machine. Any time you try a new challenging situation, your mind digs into its mental cabinet to see when you’ve tried similar things before. It’s wired to look for failures because your brain wants you to be safe.
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What would your life look like if you decided to go as hard as you possibly could? What if you just went for it? What if you just decided today was going to be the day that you stopped BSing yourself and went all-in on a better future?
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You have the power to adapt to whatever life throws at you, even if you don’t always feel like the most capable person. Why? Because you’re a human being.
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Each individual concession is insignificant, but look up a few years later, and the trap you find yourself in was built brick by brick with each little tiny concession.
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I find myself pushing more into uncertainty every day. Why? Because I realised the goal of self-improvement isn’t to be able to predict the future and know exactly how to hit perfectly crafted goals.
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