🤔 Morning thoughts (September 16 -22)

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

Themes of the week: Risk, growth, mindfulness, discipline, perseverance, change, adaptation.

Sunday - September 22, 2024

"The choice isn’t between success and failure; it’s between choosing risk and striving for greatness, or risking nothing and being certain of mediocrity." 

Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz, Never Eat Alone

There’s no single point in life when you’re choosing success. It’s a succession of micro choices where you’re refusing to settle for what’s not good enough. 

Saturday - September 21, 2024

"Everything you do either expands the sense of what is possible or adds to the feeling that nothing is possible." 

Phil Stutz, Coming Alive

Learn to check in with yourself. Detail matters when it can move you towards or away from your goals at every step. 

Friday - September 20, 2024

"To procrastinate is to be entitled. It is arrogant. It assumes there will be a later. It assumes you’ll have the discipline to get to it later (despite not having the discipline now)." 

Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny

What is preventing you from engaging with life is likely what you have to face head first to get over yourself. Cold water doesn’t feel so col once you’re in it for good.

Thursday - September 19, 2024

"Resistance outwits the amateur with the oldest trick in the book: It uses his own enthusiasm against him. Resistance gets us to plunge into a project with an overambitious and unrealistic timetable for its completion. It knows we can’t sustain that level of intensity. We will hit the wall. We will crash." 

Steven Pressfield, The War of Art

Preparation also means having no false expectations. You are open to embrace the possible and ready to face the inevitabile. 

Wednesday - September 18, 2024

"Most people want their lives to keep improving, yet they value peace and stability at the same time. People often forget that you can’t improve and still stay the same. Growth means change. Change requires challenging the status quo. If you want greater possibilities, you can’t settle for what you have now." 

John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think

Your rate of change dictates your progress. The hardest internal battle is never being content and still enjoying the process. 

Tuesday - September 17, 2024

"Sometimes an entirely inaccurate formula is a handy way to move you in the right direction if it offers the benefit of simplicity." 

Scott Adams, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

Sometimes getting started is more valuable than getting it right. Learn to recognize and appreciate the benefit of speed to create opportunity.

Monday- September 16, 2024

"Conflict is inevitable; you will never have total peace. Instead of imagining you can avoid these clashes of will, accept them and know that the way you deal with them will decide your success in life." 

Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War

There’s no victory without a fight. In life your progress is be decided in the moments you’re least likely to think will make you grow. Step outside of yourself and take the high ground.

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