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Act As If

We usually don’t act (= do what we actually want to do) because we try to avoid possible resulting hardships, pain or humiliation.

The no. 1 formula to move from this type of “failure” (unsatisfaction, boredom, stress) to success (fulfillment, happiness, peace):

Always act as if it were impossible to fail.

Dorothea Brande

2 Life Facts To Start The Week

  1. Don’t believe every thought, idea or notion that comes into your head during the course of your day. Choose the things that serve you well and let go of the things that do not.
  2. You have limitless potential. Do everything you can to not put any limitations on yourself, no matter your current beliefs about the world or yourself – especially thinking that you are “unchangeable” or that “you just are how you are”.

Be Yourself

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you like everybody else
means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.

E. E. Cummings

Focus

People think focus means saying ‘yes’ to the thing you’ve got to focus on.

That’s not what focus means at all.

Focus means to say ‘no’ to the 100 other possible actions/ideas that there are.

Pick carefully and be as proud of the things you have not done as about the things you have done.

Source: Quote by Steve Jobs

Control

“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”

Epictetus

In times like these we need to remind ourselves that we can only control two things:

  1. Our thoughts
  2. Our actions

Don’t try to control anything else. It will only irritate you.