Before I forget it: I’ll be in the Netherlands from today till monday so I’m not sure wether I’ll be able to keep you updated with content. Nevertheless, if you need some motivation, just shove this video right up your face and (although I think some of the clips are definitely fake) realise: People are awesome! Together with the fact that what anyone can achieve you can also achieve, watching this video is quite an inspiring thing.
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Hi š
Today just a beatiful quote:
Shoot for the moon.Ā Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Les Brown
This should not be taken literaly of course, but I just like the idea behind it. The idea of setting yourself very big goals in order to achieve something big and nice. It is not that important that you reach your goal as you imagined them, which is impossible because how could you be able to imagine your future that exact? š Just set yourself big hairy goals and stick to your plans and the outcome will be astonishing beatiful!
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Going to the moon, brb
Hey š
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him
Dutch proverb
This one is about leaving your comfort zone. If you start doing stuff it is natural to go outside āinto the worldā and achieve things. I donāt say that you canāt achieve something at home or that you canāt develop personally at home, actually your home is essential for your development and it is important, but if you want to achieve something great, you have to take the guts and go out there. Thatās why normally itās half the rent if you just take your lazy ass out of your comfy chair or couch and get out of your home, out of your comfort zone.
It will take time to get used to āgo outsideā, but remember for example you being a kid. Didnāt it feel natural to go and play outside? It was not interesting if the weather was good or not, we just felt the urge to do so. Today many of us lost that urge and are used to relax in our homes, braindead and idling. Stop that, get up, get out!
/phil
Hey š
Don’t waste your time, guys:
Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets.
American proverb
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Hi š
There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work!
Joseph de Maistre
I like this quote because it idealizes keeping external diversion away from yourselves. Just think about it: You want to learn a song on the guitar. So you take 2 hours of your time every day, when you shut down your computer, pulll out your phone, close your door and pretend you are not at home. You are just not available to others at that time of the day, because you commit yourselve to playing guitar with 100% of your attention. You are 100% present, physically and psychically!
That is how you really improve, but of course it is a very drastic way and just an idealization. Try and find the right amount for you personally.
/phil
Suuunday š
I will just give you another quote for today and won’t comment any quote in the future since I don’t want to repeat myself to often. Nevertheless I’ll bring some unique content to this page, don’t worry š
Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don’t understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Hey, happy saturday š
Still blogging from my Blackberry, so let’s make it short:
Would you like to give me a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success but it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it so go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.
Thomas J. Watson
That’s it for today, no need to support or explain this simple yet profound lesson.
/phil
Hey š
I’ll make it short today since im blogging via Blackberry right now, which sucks to be honest š
Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve your conditions.
Jeethesh Sookoo
There are no obstacles that leave you teared down on the ground, at least not as long as you won’t let them! You can learn a lot from any obstacle and there is much truth in the shallow ‘what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’. But it is important that you consciously chose to improve and to learn something. Obstacles and hard situations can’t help you on their own, you have to drain the energy out of them! Take what is yours and make the best out of anything. Who said you were not allowed to be positive about shit happening to you? I say: go, get ’em, take what you can get and keep it up!
A bit unstructured today, enjoy it anyway š make yourselves a nice weekend,
/phil
Hey š
There’s nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.
Mark Burnett
You may recognize this thoghts: “Whoa fuck, this is way too hard, I didn’t expect that! Fuck it, I’ll just drop it, who cares? How am I supposed to pull this shit of anyway?”. Often we tend to chose tasks for ourselves, just to find out that the workload is way bigger than we originally had imagined. But there is no greater pleasure than doing it anyway, going the whole way through the work and finally achieving your goal!
For example if you’re a runner. You run and run and run, just to stop exhausted, realising that you have some kilometres left till home and are absolutely fucked up. What is more relieving, more comforting than finishing that particular run? If you fight your way through all obstacles no matter what happens, even if you did not expect it to get that hard, you will enjoy the success afterwards!
When it comes to success, many people talk about setting up BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goal), in order to keep yourselve motivated. I want you to do that too, but if you realise that it gets harder than you originally thought, which is what you definitely WILL realise, you have to keep going all the way through!
Good luck with that,
/phil
Hi š
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Anthony Robbins
Today I want to talk about focus.
Try to think of “doing things” in a binary way. There is 1 and 0. Either you DO something, or you DO NOT. There is no “driving while thinking of what you are going to eat in the afternoon and alongside talking to your co-driver” and no “watching TV while munching some fast-food and listening to the radio”. Try to do things apart from each other and pay them your full attention! You will soon notice that when your thoughts are not wandering around but on the job, that you’ll feel much more energetic and more powerful. Your thoughts are not somewhere in the caribic, dreaming of other times, they are here and now with your body and the task in front of you. That will give you an incredible power in doing things and you will soon realise that you get more shit done in fewer time.
You are great at multitasking? Take a break!
Maybe take the example of doing your laundry. When you do it as a side line and watch TV while doing it and keep your thoughts away from focus, you may need an hour and you will constantly think: “When will this be over? This sucks. I hate doing my laundry.” Or you can chose to concentrate on doing your damn laundry, get it done in half an hour and have more free time! You have to decide, if you want to do it or not. If you do it, do it properly and accurate. If you don’t do it that is ok as well, then don’t do it, but you have to make this decision. All this iffy and indecisive idling keeps you from getting anything done properly! Even if you decide to procastinate for a while, that is totally fine, but do it with passion (literally), rather than keeping thoughts in your mind like “I should be doing this or that”.
Make the decision and run all the way through it. The outcome sucks? All right, then you know better next time, so don’t waste a thought about it anymore. Keep your headspace clean and tidy in order to get shit done today.
/phil
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