🤔 Morning thoughts (January 27 - February 2)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Momentum, fluidity, presence, discipline, expectations, trust, process
Sunday - February 2, 2025
"Understand: momentum in life comes from increased fluidity, a willingness to try more, to move in a less constricted fashion."
Robert Greene, The 50th Law
Your goal should be to become less and less encumbered by life’s friction. That is to not be limited by expectations, reactions, negative self talk and an obscured perception of others.
Saturday - February 1, 2025
"There are 2 states of mind to become aware of: stillness and movement. Being and doing. Peace and progress. When your focus is occupied by the background of your ideal future and the foreground of your priority actions, these 2 states of mind collapse into the present moment."
Dan Koe, The Art of Focus
Action anchored in vision is what present moment awareness is all about. Self-honesty is how you bind them together.
Friday - January 31, 2025
"The strange thing about feeling lucky or unlucky is that your experience so often matches your expectations"
Scott Adams, Reframe Your Brain
Feelings follow action, and expectations born out of action will win over those born out of mere feelings. You only get inaccurate expectations from inaction.
Thursday - January 30, 2025
"Trust is a commitment to the practice, a decision to lead and make change happen, regardless of the bumps in the road, because you know that engaging in the practice is better than hiding from it."
Seth Godin, The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
Treat practice like a ritual. A daily rite of passage from someone who embraces chance, to the person who knows chance happens to those who put in the daily work.
Wednesday - January 29, 2025
"To fall in love with the process, you must refocus your mind on the depth and detail of the present moment."
Dan Koe, The Art of Focus
Loving the process doesn’t come as a deliberate act, but as a consequence of appreciating the present moment. You don’t simply “love the process”, you love the present, which then leads you to caring about every single act in the moment.
Tuesday - January 28, 2025
"Let your hours become days, then weeks, then years of effort. Allow discipline to seep into your cells until work becomes a reflex as automatic as breathing. With discipline as your medium, your life will become a work of art."
David Goggins, Never Finished
Discipline is just realizing that what most call work is just a path to creating life on your terms. When others are see friction, you see a tool to get you where you want to go.
Monday - January 27, 2025
"Every day, every hour and every moment you do not work toward a target is another day, hour and moment that your goal has to wait before it comes into existence."
Antony Cummins, How to Be a Modern Samurai
When you start seeing everything in terms of opportunity cost to get you your goals, priorities change. And you realize nobody else will ever do anything to take you there. It’s on you.