“Be present as the watcher of your mind—of your thoughts and emotions as well as your reactions in various situations. Be at least as interested in what goes on inside you as what happens outside.”
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"To simplify before you understand the details is ignorance.
To simplify after you understand the details is genius."
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“As soon as you honor the present moment, all unhappiness and struggle dissolve, and life begins to flow with joy and ease.”
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“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”
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"Success is often found by practicing the fundamentals everyone knows they should be doing, but find too boring or basic to practice routinely."
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"Work is endless. Exercise is endless. Parenting is endless. Same with marriage, writing, investing, creating, and more. You get to choose the parts of your life, but many of the important things in life cannot be "finished."
Do not approach an endless game with a finite mindset. The objective is not to be done, but to settle into a daily lifestyle you can sustain and that allows you to make daily progress on the areas that matter.
Embrace the fact that life is continual and look for ways to enjoy the daily practice."
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Expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker reminds us that selfhood is a continual process and making courageous, aligned choices each day is how you author your story:
"I am Me, and I hope to become Me more and more."
Source: Letter to Rainer Maria Rilke (February 17, 1906)
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"Compete externally and you compare.
Compete internally and you improve."
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"The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty."
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"The more you create, the more powerful you become.
The more you consume, the more powerful others become."
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"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."
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"The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live."
1 Question For You
What story about yourself would you have to retire in order to grow into the life you want?
