The deepest need of every human heart is the same.
Unremitting unconditional love.
We spend our lives chasing affection and approval.
The Inner Excellence path is to stop chasing and start giving.
Serve others more than yourself and watch real joy appear.
"Peace does not come to the man who refuses to declare war, on what is destroying him." - Seneca
1. Look at your life & work.
2. What is holding you back from the person you want to be?
3. Declare war on that thing.
It can be your own avoidance or unwillingness.
Declare War.
You can hate showing up early, being consistent, doing what you said you’d do, keeping your word after it’s no longer convenient, and a hundred other things.
You can hate all of it.
You just have to hate losing, more.
"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.
Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you."
- Doris Lessing
I’m in love with this sentence:
“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”
Kids don't need constant validation from parents, or whoever drove them to practice. They need the freedom to learn, fail, adapt, and trust the person teaching them.
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"It's expensive" is the easiest exit in the room. The prospect gets to leave without explaining. You get to blame the budget. Be the one person who won't take it.
“I beat it out of me.”
Josh Brolin had a brutal 9mm slipped disc. Doctors told him to rest and consider surgery. Instead, he did the opposite, kept working out, running, and doing pistol squats even when it got worse. Then one day… it was just gone. Never came back.
Movement is everything, he says.
We’re so quick to default to rest and meds when something hurts, but sometimes the body needs to be pushed through the pain to heal.
Real recovery isn’t always comfortable or conventional. Sometimes you have to move toward the discomfort instead of away from it.
Being unafraid of making mistakes makes everything easy for me. Not worrying about what people think frees you to do things, and doing things allows you to win or learn from your loss—which means you win either way. Hear me now: you are better off being wrong ten times and being right three than you are if you try only three times and always get it right.
Most people are willing to trade the life they (truly) want, for the comfort of today.
Don't be most people.
Do something hard, embarrass yourself, take risks, and try.
Temporary discomfort is always the price, and there is no other door.
"Hardship does not come to bury a man. It comes to measure him." - Epictetus
The world is filled with those who are buried.
The only way forward is through...
Be proudly measured by your Grit.
Bold actions, pushing forward, never stopping.
"Until death, all defeat is psychological." - Marcus Aurelius
Refuse everything that would lead most people to give up.
Refuse it.
Rise from the dead 1000 times.
Commit to never stay down & never give up.
Everything you want is on the other side of struggle.
“You have to fail constantly in order to succeed at the bigger things.”
@harvey CEO @winstonweinberg says building a company means making a lot of bets, absorbing the failures, and staying in the game long enough for one to pay off.
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I've seen people...
- Start "late"
- Start over
- Go bankrupt
- Have major setbacks and challenges
And still get to where they wanted to go.
It is never impossible to pull a win for yourself,
You just have to keep going when any "rational person" would stop.
Refuse to be engineered into passivity...
A drone scrolling tiktok all day long, outraged by everything, sucked into the vortex, endlessly entertained by reality tv, and wasting your time.
Take control of your life man.
Win this war for your attention & Direct your life.