Tag: Goals and Habits
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Beautiful struggles
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” Sigmund Freud
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On the path to success
“What does it take to achieve success? Three Things: 1. A clear goal. 2. A specific plan to accomplish that goal. 3. The discipline to invest the time, energy, and effort to execute that plan.” John Lee Dumas I have been thinking a lot about goals, failure and success as I struggle back and forth…
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You cannot change without changing something.
“Start doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” Francis of Assisi How many of us want to change but do nothing about it? Let’s say you want to run a marathon. How far have you run over the last month? Let’s say you want to read more books.…
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When missing becomes the habit
“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit.” James Clear It can be hard to strike a balance between work and play while maintaining our sanity. Take, for instance, this…
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Who is it you’re trying to be?
“Specify your damn goals. Because how are you going to hit something if you don’t know what it is?” Jordan Peterson I came across an article that Jordan Peterson has a new book coming out, Beyond Order. It got me thinking about the balance of order and chaos in our lives and the goals we set…
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Do you deserve what you want?
“To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. The world is not yet a crazy enough place to reward a whole bunch of undeserving people.” Charlie Munger We always want what we don’t have. We dream, but we don’t always make a solid plan to move towards that dream. We aren’t…
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Easy or hard choices
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” Jerzy Gregorek This quote made me pause and reflect on the choices I make in my life. Do I make enough hard choices? Should I be making more hard choices? Hard vs easy choices I understand hard choices as being those things which are challenging to get…
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Choose your inputs wisely
“You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” Jim Rohn Be mindful of what is influencing your thinking during these challenging times. It’s easy to get sidetracked down a path or fear reading news or social media for eight hours a day, or maybe settling into binge-watching whole seasons…
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Journaling can change your life
“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.” Anne Frank The cost of busy We get so caught up in the business of our lives that often we don’t really know what is going on inside. How are we?…
