🤔 Morning thoughts (April 1 - 7)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Discipline, effort, stretching, adventure, goals, space, faith, refinement, self-assuredness.
Sunday - April 7, 2024
No matter how disciplined you were yesterday, the box falls apart if you’re not disciplined today. In that sense you wake up each morning with nothing. You are impoverished until you rebuild the box with your disciplined actions. Accepting this commits you to unending effort."Â
Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living
Constant daily effort is what makes life worth living. There’s no reward in the certainty that tomorrow you’ll get everything you want without putting in the work.Â
Saturday - April 6, 2024
"If you feel you are taking on a bit more than you can handle, that’s probably the perfect place to be."Â
Scott Adams, Reframe Your Brain
Like stretching the body, stretching your confidence pushes you to new boundaries. You’ll never feel 100% ready.Â
Friday - April 5, 2024
"Adventure requires something of us, puts us to the test. Though we may fear the test, at the same time we yearn to be tested, to discover that we have what it takes."Â
John Eldredge, Wild at Heart
Life is adventure. To live refusing the call means passing up the chance to find out what you’re made of. Dare to take the next step.Â
Thursday - April 4, 2024
"Here’s what I love about people with insanely huge goals: they know what to put in their calendar, how to spend their days, and what to fill their life up with"Â
Dan Martell, Buy Back Your Time
The more deliberate you are with how you spend your time the more energy you free up. Commitment creates space.Â
Wednesday - April 3, 2024
"To be disciplined is literally to be a "disciple" to something larger than you."Â
Mark Divine, Unbeatable MindÂ
Discipline requires belief and faith. The rewards are almost always never immediate, but we push through because we believe in something. Discipline strengths our values.Â
Tuesday - April 2, 2024
If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?
Rumi
Don’t aim for perfection, go for refinement. Over and over. Do the work, get better, assess and keep going.
Monday - April 1, 2024
"The recipe for achievement is a medley of self-assuredness, dogged persistence, and audacity."
Keith Ferrazzi, Never Eat Alone
You make the biggest leaps in life when you stop comparing yourself to others and you start looking inside. When you can tap into something deeper and unmovable within you.Â