🤔 Morning thoughts (February 17 - 23)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Assumption, Focus, Intuition, Chaos, Responsibility, Confidence, Ownership, Perspective
Sunday - February 23, 2025
"The best affirmation, and the only effective one, is an assumption which, in itself, implies denial of the former state. The best denial is total indifference."
Neville Goddard, Infinite Potential
Ruthless focus is a balance with ruthless negation of what’s not serving you. Learn not only to go after what you want, but to completely disregard what you don’t.
Saturday - February 22, 2025
"if you know a particular path will make you feel more stressed, unhealthy, and drained, it’s probably the wrong choice. Right choices can be challenging, but they usually charge you up. When you’re on the right path, it feels right, literally."
Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Learning to listen to your feelings is sometimes more important than logically planning every single detail out. But you need the space and energy to do it effectively.
Friday - February 21, 2025
"The Universe demands that lows counterbalance the highs. For this reason, it is important to choose the chaos you allow into your life. To pursue something big, meaty, and terrifying that pushes you out of the known. At the edge of the known, with one foot in the unknown, is where we are the most alive. Not absolute order nor absolute chaos, but a middle path where you are engaged with the conversations, education, work, rest, training, and other challenging situations on the path to your meaningful goals."
Dan Koe, The Art of Focus
Your definition of chaos can and will change. What might overwhelm you one time will feel just like another day once you’ve gone through it repeatedly. To be engaged with the creative power in your life check to see if you’re constantly upgrading the chaos in your life. Not more, but better, more balanced.
Thursday - February 20, 2025
"If you’re losing your cool, you are losing. If you are triggered, it is because you allowed someone else to dictate your emotional state. If you are outraged, it is because you lack discipline and self-control. These are personal defeats, not the fault of anyone else."
Dan Crenshaw, Fortitude
Taking personal responsibility means assuming you are at fault without the realization weighing down on you. On the contrary it’s fire that moves you closer to the person you want to be.
Wednesday - February 19, 2025
"True self-confidence does not come from positive wishing or positive hoping or positive thinking. It comes from positive knowing based on having proven to yourself, over and over again, that you have what it takes to get from wherever you are to wherever you want to go."
Brian Tracy, The Power of Self-Confidence
Most people overlook the fact that confidence is a feedback loop. The more you act, the more likely you’ll cement your self belief, the more results you’ll see, and the more confident you’ll be. What’s hard is simply taking the first step and believing momentum will carry you.
Tuesday - February 18, 2025
"Taking responsibility and morphing blame into sacrifice empowers you. It puts the ball in your court and returns you to the healthy reality that the only person in this world who determines your success and failure is you."
Mark Manson, Models
Even when you think you have no power over a particular situation, even when you think it’s not in your control - you can take ownership of how you feel about it, and act accordingly. When you realize this you’ll never feel more powerful.
Monday - February 17, 2025
"The world is alive,and all by itself churns ahead with power and purpose! Stop for a moment and attempt to draw it all in. The depth and intricacy of life’s fabric is astonishing beyond comprehension. Grasp the beautiful complexity of life’s workings and know that all by itself this world gurgles and percolates along with no overall human supervision."
Sam Carpenter, Work the System
We think we have more influence on the workings of the world than we actually do. What we do have influence on however, is ourselves. To create a better world, create a better you first.