The interesting thing about reflecting on your death is that it reawakens you to what’s truest about life.
Children come to us more highly evolved than adults to teach us the lessons we need to learn.
Spring has past, summer has gone and winter is here. And the song that I meant to sing remains unsung. I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours.” – Ayn Rand.
Leadership’s a lot more about how brilliantly you work and how masterfully you behave.
Living the same week a few thousand times and calling it a life. I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.
I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Limitation is nothing more than a mentality that too many good people practice daily until they believe it’s reality.
And all it takes is a single morning filled with positivity to deliver a monumental download of inventive ideas that elevate an entire generation, you know.
Yesterday you told me that life is a growth school, Father Mike. Every person and every experience comes to us to teach us the lesson we most need to learn at that particular point of our journey. We can either awaken to this act of nature, or we can turn a blind eye to it and, in doing so, keep repeating the mistakes of the past until the pain becomes so great that we have no choice but to change.
It is important to remember that just as our words are our thoughts verbalized, so our deeds are our beliefs actualized.
You will always feel a little discomfort when you are installing a new habit. It’s sort of like breaking in a new pair of shoes – at first it’s a little hard to wear them but soon they fit like a glove. The best amongst us get comfortable being uncomfortable.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.” – Steven Pressfield.
One of the lessons I have learned in my own life is that if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that it is worth living, and your belief will help create that fact. William James The.
It is so easy to magnify our problems and lose sight of the many blessings we all have to be so very grateful for.
World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.
Leadership requires great courage. It is tough to leave the gravitational pull of the crowd around us. It is tough to take the road less traveled when everyone urges you to be like everyone else. It is tough to create your life on your own terms when others are telling you how your life should be created. But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than lying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams.
The saddest thing is that this is often all we understand about ourselves: that so often, we live our neighbor’s life, instead of our own.
Sleep is like a drug,” he explained. “Take too much at a time and it makes you dopey. You lose time, vitality and opportunities.