🤔 Morning thoughts (November 18- 24)

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

Themes of the week: Confidence, Discipline, Rituals, Perspective, Values, Meaning, Responsibility

Sunday - November 24. 2024

"True confidence only comes when you feel yourself function within the continuum of time." 

Phil Stutz, Lessons for Living

Confidence is earned, moment by moment, when you’re present and embrace both the struggle and the flow of life. Confidence is knowing who you are and firmly affirming it time after time.

Saturday - November 23, 2024

"Rituals are poetic habits. They serve a purpose that may not make sense to the reasoning mind—but is undeniable to the heart." 

Kyle Eschenroeder, The Pocket Guide to Action

That consistent early wake up, that obsessive workout routine, that daily 20 minute meditation… it won’t change your life in the moment, but it will completely transform your inner state. That’s how you change the reflection in the mirror.

Friday - November 22, 2024

"We’re convinced everyone cares so much about what we’re doing that we get stuck. We tell ourselves it’s self-discipline when in fact, it’s self-consciousness." 

Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny

The more importance and drama you attribute to your own struggles and victories, the less control you’ll have over how you handle them and the more friction you introduce. Get over yourself and your ego, you’re just a vessel and your reality a mirror.

Thursday - November 21, 2024

"Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them" 

Epictetus, The Art of Living

Being a man of principle and values is being a man with standards. You are the only person responsible for enforcing those. Be the exemplar you’d wish to have, no matter how far you think you still have to go to get there.

Wednesday - November 20, 2024

"Then I thought maybe there is no answer — there is no built-in meaning. Maybe life is like a blank canvas for everyone to project their own meaning into." 

Unknown, Useful Not True

Life is what you make it. Through finding your work, your meaning and your purpose. Remember it when you think you have to do things their way. Listen to your intuition.  

Tuesday - November 19, 2024

"Beliefs cause emotions. Emotions cause actions. Choose a belief for the action it will cause." 

Derek Sivers, Useful Not True

What you believe reflects how you act and move through life. Learn to see your convictions as malleable so you can shape your reality. Know that any act is preceded by accepting something as true in your mind.

Monday - November 18, 2024

"An opportunist in life sees all hindrances as instruments for power. The reason is simple: negative energy that comes at you in some form is energy that can be turned around—to defeat an opponent and lift you up." 

50 Cent, The 50th Law

Start to see any event, positive or negative as a wave influencing the current of life. Giving it momentum. It’s up to you how to leverage that energy and make the most of it.

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