🤔 Morning thoughts (July 15 - 21)

Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.

Themes of the week: Resilience, self-love, choice, perspective, action, control, growth.

Sunday - July 28, 2024

The hard thing isn’t dreaming big. The hard thing is waking up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat when the dream turns into a nightmare.

Ben Horowitz, The hard thing about hard things  

When fantasy meets reality it’s because you took action and got feedback. Better live through challenging times that build you up than merely spectating on the side walks. Be grateful. 

Saturday - July 27, 2024

Everyone has a price, and Life respects that price. But that price is not measured in dollars or in gold; it is measured in love. More than that, it is measured in self-love. How much you love yourself — that is your price — and Life respects the price.

Don Miguel Ruiz, Mastery of love

It all starts from accepting and loving yourself. It starts with being selfish. Then it grows through selflessly giving what you’ve built away. The more selfish you are at first the more you’ll be able to offer when the time is right. 

Friday - July 26, 2024

"The choices you make are *always* going to be subjective, a matter of opinion. What criticism offers you, then, is an invitation to have your perspective challenged—or at least to grow by truly considering it." 

Will Guidara, Unreasonable Hospitality

Get outside of yourself and your ego focused view by engaging with other realities. Understand how differently people see the world, and you’ll know how useless it is to only focus on what you see.

Thursday - July 25, 2024

"The first secret to mental toughness, as simple as it may sound, is to recognize and embrace the power of choice and how that power can shape our lives." 

Mark Divine, Unbeatable Mind

Power comes from choice and choice gives you power. Once the cycle is in motion it’s hard to stop. It’s hard to stop you. 

Wednesday - July 24, 2024

"The safest place to be is inside the wave when it’s barreling because if you fall there, you can come out the back." 

Laird Hamilton, Force of Nature

Often you’ll make the best bets in motion. There’s perspective and a sense of urgency when you’re going towards what you want. Use them.

Tuesday - July 23, 2024

"Then there’s the belief born in resilience. It comes from working your way through layers of pain, fatigue, and reason, and ignoring the ever-present temptation to quit until you strike a source of fuel you didn’t even know existed." 

David Goggins, Never Finished

Building resilience requires shedding layers of beliefs created by refusing to do the hard work. Starts with the body, ends in the mind.

Monday - July 22, 2024

To refrain is not the same thing as repression. To refrain is to hold the emotions and to express them in the right moment, not before, not later. That is why warriors are impeccable. They have complete control over their own emotions and therefore over their own behavior.

Don Miguel Ruiz, The four agreements 

Master your emotions, master your life. There’s work behind every man who’s unmoved by the ups and downs in his mood.

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