The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.
Focus on progress not perfection.
Focus on the solution, not the problem.
Don’t think about what can happen in a month. Don’t think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be.
Success does not require you to look out the window, it only requires that you look in the mirror.
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
You can change environments, but until you change yourself, nothing else will ever change.
What you envision in your mind, how you see yourself, and how you envision the world around you is of great importance because those things become your focus.
To change the world is not your mission. To change yourself is not your duty. To awaken to your true nature is your opportunity.
Don’t belong to anything. Don’t belong to anyone. Just Be. Feel your Being first and foremost, and don’t compare or compete. Just Be your Being.
There’s an African proverb: ‘When death finds you, may it find you alive.’ Alive means living your own damned life, not the life that your parents wanted, or the life some cultural group or political party wanted, but the life that your own soul wants to live.
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
This is me. Take it or leave it.
A good process produces good results.
Focus on the present moment. Stay in the moment.
No excuses. Just do the work.
You are the architect of your own life.
Be original and find your inner voice. The rest will follow.
Man conquers the world by conquering himself.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.