Personal Growth

Act As If

Personal Growth / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

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

Be Yourself

Personal Growth / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

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

Personal Growth / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

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

Personal Growth / 26 May, 2020 / Leave a Comment

“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.