🤔 Morning thoughts (September 11 - 17)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Sunday - September 17, 2023
“All art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment.”
Ricky Rubin, The Creative Act
The process requires experimentation. This means failure too. All of it is part of the journey necessary to get where you want to go. Learn to take it on.
Saturday - September 16, 2023
“Sometimes after a game, and especially after a loss, Kobe obtained the game film and we’d watch it together, every moment, every frame. Sometimes we’d be in the car headed to a late dinner, and we’d never get there; we’d just sit in the car analyzing what went right and what went wrong. That’s how you manage a loss. You tear it apart until it loses its power to happen again.”
Tim Grover, Winning
Attention to detail in what goes wrong too. That’s what separates the pros from the amateurs.
Friday - September 15, 2023
"Everything that we encounter in life is ultimately the result of our own mental actions.“
William Hart, The Art of Living
Just like your body, your mind acts too. What you visualize the emotions and thoughts you experience and entertain… they are all actively influencing your mental state. You act inside of your mind way before the body. That’s why your reality is created in the mind. What you see out there is just a mirror.
Thursday - September 14, 2023
"The obligation of a champion is to act like a champion . . . while working as hard as somebody with something to prove."
Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny
Act like the person you want to become, work like someone who looks up to him.
Wednesday - September 13, 2023
"Access to your true essence will also give you insight into the mirror of relationship, because all relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself."
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
The way you relate to yourself is the way you relate to the world. Treat yourself like you would want the world to treat you.
Tuesday - September 12, 2023
"You will be surprised to find that in most situations there’s nothing to deal with except for your own fears and desires."
Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul
When you realize that in most situations the only thing that stands between you and your goals are your own internal limitations, life becomes a game. What matters is simply how you deal with them, in the moment.
Monday - September 11, 2023
"Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, “delving into the things that lie beneath” and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is to be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
The only person you should focus on when it comes to mental states is yourself. It’s the only thing you can control and truly know. Don’t waste time wondering what others are thinking or feeling. Look at their actions.