Recognize that there’s a correlation between worry and creativity. It’s the most basic aspect of human evolution—the more we fear something, the more creative we are in creating solutions to adapt to the alternative. (Book: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – Brianna Wiest) Finally he asked the old man why he...
Don’t confuse a broken dream with a broken future. Don’t confuse a broken heart for a broken life.(Book: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – Brianna Wiest) Slow down, for whatever you really want will be there when you get there if you work toward it without stress, without pressing.(Book: The Power...
Trying to change how you feel is like finding a road sign that points in the opposite direction of where you had intended to go and getting out to try to turn the sign, rather than your course of action.(Book: 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think – Brianna Wiest) So if you...
If you don’t know yet what you should work on, the most important thing is to figure it out.(Book: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss) You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired doing nothing. You don’t have to...
Happiness, love, and passion…aren’t things you find—they’re choices you make.(Book: The Almanack of Naval Ravikant – Eric Jorgenson, Jack Butcher, and Tim Ferriss) If your business depends on you, you don’t own a business—you have a job. And it’s the worst job in the world because you’re working for a lunatic!(Book: The E-Myth – Michael E....
Most first drafts can be cut by 50 percent without losing any information or losing the author’s voice. (Book: On Writing Well – William Zinsser) Business is a place where everything we know how to do is tested by what we don’t know how to do, and that the conflict between the two is what creates...
No matter how successful we are in life, when we die, none of us will be declared the winner of life.(Book: The Infinite Game – Simon Sink) Do not ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come...
Productivity isn’t about doing more things—it’s about doing the right things.(Book: The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome – Chris Bailey) In order to feel confident and secure, you need to have something to feel confident and secure about. We all want to feel good about ourselves, but many of us don’t recognize how...
“Making the jump between knowing and doing is what productivity is all about.” (Book: The Productivity Project: Proven Ways to Become More Awesome – Chris Bailey) “Stop thinking about the damn wall!” he said. “There is no wall. There are only bricks. Your job is to lay this brick perfectly. Then move on to the next brick....