🤔 Morning thoughts (March 17 - 23)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Creativity, Courage, Detachment, Presence, Perception, Inner-peace, Mindset
Sunday - March 23, 2025
"Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be-and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway."
Steven Pressfield, Do the Work
Boldness is often nothing but stumbling on something meaningful enough that you pursue without fear or attachment. The clearer you are on what you want, the fewer obstacles in your path. Including yourself.
Saturday - March 22, 2025
"If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go."
Tao Te Ching
There’s nothing more powerful than knowing that doing the work is the only thing you can control - and embracing it fully. If you’re perseverant and lucky enough to know what you need to do, dive deep with no attachment.
Friday - March 21, 2025
"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
Tao Te Ching
In our society it takes courage to be truly yourself. You have to shed layers and layers of projections, expectations and judgment — but once you do, that’s where freedom lies.
Thursday - March 20, 2025
"What we normally take to be “reality” is often just fictions in our own minds."
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus
How well you navigate reality is how well you can tell your own story and read others narrative.
Wednesday - March 19, 2025
"Happiness reveals itself when we are at peace with ourselves"
Thich Nhat Hanh, Savor
We often overcomplicate happiness and look for it everywhere except within ourselves. When you accept that inner peace is a choice, you start realizing how little it takes to feel happy in the moment.
Tuesday - March 18, 2025
"Too many of us are paralyzed in the static snapshot of how we think our worlds should be instead of facing the truth of our own unpleasant flowing realities. Life is not a snapshot. It’s a real-time streaming video— and the video plays on, whether we affect it or not."
Sam Carpenter, Work the System
Often in life, facing the harsh reality of the inevitable, so called “negative” moments, is the only way to realize they’re simply part of our existence. It’s up to us to internalize these as growth or to let them paralyze us. Courage means moving on and remaining fluid.
Monday - March 17, 2025
"Give your mind the right direction, the right challenge, and it will work just as hard to make things work for you as it has worked to hold you back."
Dr. Shad Helmstetter, What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
What you’re feeding your mind is what you get out of it. Curate the content you entertain and realize that the quality of your thoughts and the output you get will always depend on alignment with the input.