What is it costing you—financially, emotionally, and physically—to postpone action?
Don’t only evaluate the potential downside of action. It is equally important to measure the atrocious cost of inaction.
If you don’t pursue those things that excite you, where will you be in one year, five years, and ten years?
How will you feel having allowed circumstance to impose itself upon you and having allowed ten more years of your finite life to pass doing what you know will not fulfill you? If you telescope out 10 years and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment and regret, and if we define risk as “the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,” inaction is the greatest risk of all.
Too many people believe that everything must be pleasurable in life, which makes them constantly search for distractions and short-circuits the learning process.
I used to say, "I don't ask for much."
Then I realized that was the problem.
I never asked... so I never received.
Be vocal about your needs and desires.
We're only human after all.
Every smart person started off by asking a question.
There is no secret to intellectual growth.
If your goal is to become smarter, you need to be the person in the room asking the most questions.
As Albert Einstein once said...
"I am not a genius, I am just curious."
4. Seek Discomfort Daily:
Growth lies outside your comfort zone.
Take on new challenges, try new things, and face your fears head-on.
Embrace the unknown and watch as your confidence skyrockets.
8. “By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.”
― Franz Kafka
it sucks when you’re doing your best to maturely communicate something to someone you care about and instead of a genuine response, you’re met with topic avoidance or gaslighting.
I accidentally posted an old version of one visual…
17. You’re probably being held back by your unwillingness to ask.
18. You don’t need to have an opinion on everything.
19. Waking up early is the easiest way to improve your odds of success.