🤔 Morning thoughts (September 2 -8)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Consistency, self-mastery, perseverance, understanding, perspective, action, integrity.
Sunday - September 8, 2024
"To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy."
Epictetus, The Art of Living
You shouldn’t have anything to prove the world if you proved everything to yourself.
Saturday - September 7, 2024
"When you achieve some degree of mastery over your worst impulses, Part X will work even harder to flood you with new ones."
Phil Stutz, Coming Alive
When you think the work is finished, it’s time to get back on it. If you don’t want to settle, never mentally settle down.
Friday - September 6, 2024
"Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding."
George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon
Right action follows right understanding. What’s often missing is your original in between thinking. The ideas and intuitions that turn universal knowledge into authentic acts.
Thursday - September 5, 2024
"Big-picture thinkers realize there is a world out there besides their own, and they make an effort to get outside of themselves and see other people’s worlds through their eyes. It’s hard to see the picture while inside the frame"
John C. Maxwell, How Successful People Think
The act of thinking clearer and bigger is a selfless attempt at understanding other perspectives. You have to sacrifice your own view point to see what others see.
Wednesday - September 4, 2024
“you can’t really learn who you are through introspection but rather through the choices you make as you move through life”
Orion Taraban, The value of others
Learning requires action and interaction with reality. Look inside to find who you need to be, look outside to become him.
Tuesday - September 3, 2024
"Don’t declare yourself to be a wise person or discuss your spiritual aspirations with people who won’t appreciate them. Show your character and your commitment to personal nobility through your actions."
Epictetus, The Art of Living
Most people are too self absorbed. If you want to inspire change, be the first to show them it’s possible. Be the first to go past the self. It’s not about you.
Monday - September 2, 2024
"The judge within sits in the supreme court and can never be cheated."
Andrew Carnegie
When you can fear your own judgment more than others’ progress is inevitable. Learn to listen.