🤔 Morning thoughts (September 23 -29)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Confidence, accountability, humility, adaptation, action, preparation, reflection.
Sunday - September 29, 2024
"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs."
Mark Divine, Unbeatable Mind
We complain of how messy our life is but we fail to see the mess in our mind. What you create can’t be pure if it comes from an impure place.
Saturday - September 28, 2024
"The greatest spur to creating ideas is confidence, specifically the confidence in your ability to make magic."
John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising
You will have to feel confident before being confident. Doing the work is the only way through acquiring what you admire.
Friday - September 27, 2024
Accountability feels like an attack until you’re ready to change.
Wes Watson
Realize that your instincts will try to safeguard you from anything that doesn’t come easy. Starve the ego and accept your weaknesses so you can take the first step.
Thursday - September 26, 2024
"I’ve been very lucky to be in the right place at the right time enough times."
John Hegarty, Hegarty on Advertising
Never underestimate the role luck plays in your life. It’s how you keep humble and ready to do the work required. Let luck have the recognition it deserves.
Wednesday - September 25, 2024
"Whatever your goal, act until echo. Take disciplined action until a feedback loop kicks on."
MJ DeMarco, Unscripted
It’s not enough to act, you have to act with consistent and deliberate method, if you want those actions to be cemented in your mind and body. That requires presence and honesty.
Tuesday - September 24, 2024
"Understand: in life as in war, nothing ever happens just as you expect it to. … If you meet the dynamic situations of life with plans that are rigid, if you think of only holding static positions, if you rely on technology to control any friction that comes your way, you are doomed: events will change faster than you can adjust to them, and chaos will enter your system."
Robert Greene, The 33 Strategies of War
Your outcomes in life are a product of your preparation and of your ability to adapt those plans to the moment. Life is not a round hole you can fit a square peg into. Once the plan is done, the work is never finished. You’re never fully “ready”.
Monday - September 23, 2024
"Today move in the direction you want to move in. Take action. The world around you is a mess, have fun with it."
Kyle Eschenroeder, The Pocket Guide to Action
You can’t expect perfection when you aspire to progress. Preparation is a constant endeavor cemented in action.