I understood them, they never understood me.
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You set the standard for yourself
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"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines." - Charlie Munger
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Falling is not a defeat,
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Don’t Ever Use Your Difficulties As Excuses
No one ever had the perfect conditions for life; there were always some difficulties.
You can complain about difficulties and blame them for everything, or you can use the difficulties. It is your choice.
Use The Difficulty, But No As An Excuse\- Use difficulty as a source of motivation and inspiration, not an excuse.
Accept Difficulty As Part Of Life\- You can’t find life without difficulties, accept them as a part of life, and strive to overcome them.
There Is No Hero Without Struggles\- An easy life never makes you a hero, but difficulties do.
Self-Limiting Minds Are Oriented On Problems, Not Solutions\- See opportunities and solutions in difficulties, not problems and limitations. Excuses Are For Lusers\- Don’t be one of them.
Welcome Difficulties\- Show yourself and others what you are capable of doing in harsh times.
Difficulties Are Nutrience For Growth\- Comfort will make you weak if you want to grow, face your difficulties.
Difficulties Are In Your Mind\- Your interpretation of the situation makes it difficult or not.
When will you stop using difficulties as excuses?
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Small acts of kindness
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children are not possessions or property, but independent lives that "come through" parents, not "from" them
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When the kid started struggling and running out of steam during his workout, his coach jumped in with a motivational talk to fire him up.
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One Day Or Day One
You are postponing your life and waiting for perfect conditions that will never happen.
Your whole life is a list of delays that make your life empty.
The problem is that time waits for no one. If you don’t start things now, you will never start them.
Time waits for no one. Don’t delay your life, live it now.
If Not Now, When Then?\- The perfect time to start anything is now.
Don’t Postpone\- It will lead you to inaction.
Don’t Hesitate\- It will ruin your self-confidence.
Don’t Be Afraid\- It will damage your self-esteem.
Don’t Complain\- It is a neglect of your self-reliance.
Start Now\- Whatever you want to do, start now. Start with small steps, but be consistent.
One Day Never Comes\- Everything you want to do, you can do just now.
Go All The Way\- Don’t be discouraged by obstacles, everything is possible when you give your best.
Day One Is Now\- Magic happens when you start endeavors now.
Is there a challenge you keep putting off for 'one day' that you could start today and make it your 'day one'?
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Perfection and Confidence
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Motivation isn’t the problem. This is.
I used to think I just wasn’t motivated enough.
That if I really wanted something, I’d just do it.
But that never fully matched what was actually happening.
Because in the moment, when I didn’t follow through… it didn’t feel like a lack of motivation.
It felt like the right decision.
“I’ll do it later.”
“This isn’t the right time.”
“I’ll start properly tomorrow.”
And it sounds small, but that’s the problem.
It doesn’t feel like you’re avoiding anything.
It feels like you’re thinking it through.
That’s the part I didn’t understand until I came across this idea in 7 Lies Your Brain Tells You: And How to Outsmart Every One of Them.
The book basically explains that your brain doesn’t stop you by making you feel lazy.
It gives you reasons.
Reasons that are just logical enough that you don’t question them.
So you don’t feel unmotivated.
You feel justified.
And that’s why the pattern repeats.
Because you’re not fighting against something obvious.
You’re following something that feels right.
Once I started noticing that, things changed a bit.
Not in a “perfect discipline” way, but in a “wait… I’ve heard this before” way.
And sometimes that’s enough to not go along with it.
If you feel like your motivation comes and goes but the outcome stays the same, I’d genuinely recommend 7 Lies Your Brain Tells You.
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Nothing Was Wasted
Life has a habit of adding up even when you’re not aware it’s doing so in the moment. There was a time in my life where I genuinely thought I was just spinning my wheels, putting energy into things that showed zero outward results. It felt like motion without progress. But in retrospect, I see things were happening just out of view. At one stage in my life, I lived for six months out of an old pickup caravan. It wasn’t a lifestyle choice or an experiment; it wasn’t some great adventure. I had an eviction order looming over my head, no backup money, and no support network nearby to lend a helping hand. I had nowhere else to sleep but in the old pickup. But recently, I was browsing Alibaba, I came across the newest pickup caravan models. And I just stopped. It wasn’t because I wanted a pickup caravan far from it! It was because of the immense contrast that the newer models represented against the reality that, not too long ago, that was me. Sleeping in a pickup caravan and renting apartments (the nice, secure kind now) over a number of years isn’t a sudden transformation, and there was no noise along the way to signal it was happening. Just an unfolding process that was not visible until it was over. It made me realize how growth isn’t really seen in the moment it is happening. It can look a lot like enduring. And pushing forward when you have no assurance you will.
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When you’re available too much, you become an option! Please avoid it for your self respect and peace of mind.
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don’t stop believing everything will work out
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Start To Live Your Life Before It’s Too Late
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you will escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it.
You just use the future to escape the present. You simply exist, but haven’t started to live your life.
Never Hide From Life\- Get out of your comfort zone, and start to live your life.
Live A Story Of Your Life\- Don’t allow your life to be an empty page; fill it wisely.
Don’t Be Less Than Who You Should Be\- Be the best version of yourself.
Use Your Time\- Life is short, but we have enough time to live the life we want to live.
Why Be Afraid Of Life?\- Don’t wait for perfect times, they don’t exist, live now.
Life Is A Canvas\- Create from your life a masterpiece.
Don’t Live In The Past or The Future\- Start to live your life in the present, now.
You Can't Turn Back Time\- Every moment is important.
Life Is A Gift\- Don’t take life for granted, be grateful for this gift. Start to live your life.
Before it's too late, what is the very first step you're taking to finally start living life on your own terms?
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I helped compile a book of Stoic quotes by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and other philosophers. I've always been fascinated by how their wisdom from thousands of years ago still applies today.
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From a kids dream of being a magician to actually performing my own one man show in NYC… I’m starting to realize it’s really happening. (OC)
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This is what many people's do daily
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Bruce lee said it best
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Stop Being So Afraid
Nothing can limit your potential like fears. It constantly jeopardizes your growth and the quality of your life. Fears ruin your confidence, self-esteem, mood, adaptivity, etc.
Don’t tolerate fears.
Why Are You Afraid?\- Find what the essence of your fear is.
Do You Have Any Benefit From Being Afraid?\- No.
Why Do You Tolerate Your Fear?\- Don’t be a slave to your fears.
Do You Want To Overcome It?\- It should be a firm YES.
Where Your Fear Is, There Is Your Task\- Your duty is to liberate yourself from that tyranny.
Face Your Fear\- A direct approach is the best if you want to overcome your fears.
Paradoxical Intention\- Demand from your fear to be scarier and force yourself to be more afraid.
Use Humor\- Imagine your fears in humorous situations and make a parody.
Fears Exist Just In Your Mind\- Your fears exist in your mind and nowhere else.
Fear Is An Illusion\- Don’t let an illusion take control of your life; overcome it.
What is the first fear you are going to let go of in the next 30 days?
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Gentle reminder 🩷🩷
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2 months ago I deleted nothing, just made my phone annoying to use. it changed everything
I used to set screen time limits every sunday night like it was some kind of ritual. 2 hours on instagram, 1 hour on tiktok, 45 minutes on youtube. by tuesday I'd hit "ignore limit" without even thinking about it, every single week for over a year cuz like button is just there to click and ignore, why do somethign else??
and the thing is I wasn't lazy about other stuff. gym 4x a week, meal prep sundays, I could discipline myself fine. but my phone was different. the second I got bored or felt anything uncomfortable my hand just moved on its own, I wouldn't even realize I was scrolling until like 40 minutes in and then id be disgusted of myself for wasting a lot of time
so I tried everything. onesec, opal, grayscale mode, moving apps to the last page. and like yeah they worked kind of? onesec would make me pause and opal would block my apps on a schedule. but I kept running into the same problem, ok cool my apps are blocked now WHAT DO I DO? I'd just sit there feeling restless and then override the block anyway because there was nothing pulling me in another direction. blocking without a replacement is just willpower with extra steps
the thing that finally stuck was pagelock. it blocks your apps but won't unlock them until you scan a page of a real physical book. and that sounds stupid I know, my roommate told me about it and I literally laughed. but it's different because it doesn't just block you FROM something it gives you something TO do. like the block has a purpose now? instead of sitting there fighting the urge to override I just read a page and by the time I'm done I don't even want to scroll anymore. (half the time I keep reading honestly which is wild for someone who hadn't finished a book in 3 years)
2 months in my screen time went from like 6 hours to around 2. I've read 11 books which is genuinely more than I read in the last 3 years combined probably. the weird part is I don't even feel restricted anymore, I just do other stuff now. like I'll pick up my book or go outside or just sit there which sounds boring but it's actually fine
some days I still grab my phone 50 times out of habit. but there's a speed bump now between me and the scroll and that's enough. I don't have to win every single time, just slow down enough to actually choose
what's actually worked for anyone else? feel like everyone's got a different thing that clicks for them
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Are you always available?
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Always stay humble
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Behaviour>Knowledge
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