You become the sum of your actions, and as you do, what flows from that – your impulses – reflect the actions you’ve taken. Choose wisely.
Knowledge – self-knowledge in particular – is freedom.
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. To them, the idea that no one has ever done this or that is a good thing.
Everything is change. Embrace that. Flow with it.
We can’t take or receive feedback if we are incapable of or uninterested in hearing from outside sources. We can’t recognize opportunities – or create them – if instead of seeing what is in front of us, we live inside our own fantasy.
So today, as RSS buttons disappear from browsers and blogs, just know that this happened on purpose, so that readers could be deceived more easily.
What we don’t protect ourselves against are people and things that make us feel good – or rather, too good. We must prepare for pride and kill it early – or it will kill what we aspire to. We must be on guard against that wild self-confidence and self-obsession. “The first product of self-knowledge is humility,” Flannery O’Connor once said. This is how we fight the ego, by really knowing ourselves. The.
When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it. – MARCUS AURELIUS A.
You don’t control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.
Great entrepreneurs are never out of the game for long. They slip many times, but they don’t fall.
If you can’t swallow your pride, you can’t lead.” He.
Just because your mind tells you that something is awful or evil or unplanned or otherwise negative doesn’t mean you have to agree. Just because other people say that something is hopeless or crazy or broken to pieces doesn’t mean it is. We decide what story to tell ourselves. Or whether we will tell one at all. Welcome to the power of perception. Applicable in each and every situation, impossible to obstruct. It can only be relinquished. And that is your decision.
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important. – BERTRAND RUSSELL W.
We talk to fill the void and the uncertainty.
Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?
When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” – EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.13.1.
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.
Attach yourself to people and organizations who are already successful and subsume your identity into theirs and move both forward simultaneously.
When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go – carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.