đ€ Morning thoughts (March 18 - 24)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Self-improvement, obstacles, mindset, structure, self-validation, addiction, patience, discipline
Sunday March 24, 2024
"Magnify those weaknesses. Extinguish them. Watch how much clearer your conscience gets. Itâs not just for you; itâs for others."Â
Wes Watson, Non-Negotiable
When the work you do on yourself is in service of others, the rewards you get compound in energy, âluckâ, and power.Â
Saturday - March 23, 2024
"The way to overcome everything is to learn the mindset where you look at everything as a win. The obstacles are the path. The path is supplied in overcoming those obstacles. Your character is created through the obstacles you thought you could never hurdle"Â
Wes Watson, Non-NegotiableÂ
When you realize the reward is on the other side of your fear, you also start understanding that you donât really need the reward. The process of overcoming that fear becomes the reward.Â
Friday - March 22, 2024
"Living each day with an organized structure teaches the ego to submit to something bigger than itselfâtime. To get out of a lethargic state, the first thing to do is put the structure back into your daily living."Â
Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living
Learn to submit to the passing of time. Itâs daily sacrifice. Every moment youâre giving up something in favor of something else. Itâs humbling.Â
Thursday - March 21, 2024
"The professional self-validates. She is tough-minded. In the face of indifference or adulation, she assesses her stuff coldly and objectively. Where it fell short, sheâll improve it. Where it triumphed, sheâll make it better still. Sheâll work harder. Sheâll be back tomorrow."Â
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Be your own harsh critic and your own raving fan. When your internal standards are not subject to external influence you canât be beaten.Â
Wednesday - March 20, 2024
The more we act out our impulse, the bigger the hole gets. This is the essence of an addiction: we try to fill an infinite hole with a finite experience.
Phil Stutz, Lessons for livingÂ
No matter the craving or the aversion, that void will never fill up. Learn to see that feeling of incompleteness as part of what makes life engaging and rewarding.
Tuesday - March 19, 2024
"Your intention to be patient, especially if you know itâs only for a short while, immediately strengthens your capacity for patience. Patience is one of those special qualities where success feeds on itself."Â
Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and It's All Small Stuff
Like most things being patient requires you to take the first step. And then let momentum carry you forward.Â
Monday - March 18, 2024
"By being a little hard on ourselves, it makes it harder for others to be hard on us. By being strict with ourselves, we take away othersâ power over us."Â
Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny
âDonât be too hard on yourselfâ is an excuse others use to keep you small. If thereâs one person who should be hard on yourself, itâs you. Donât let your ego make you believe you canât take it.
Always so good Chris. Do the quotes come from books you are actively reading at the time?