What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You know the saying: One year from now on you will wish you had started today!
Just begin, whatever it may be. It does not matter how small the first step is, but take it!
/phil
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.
Elbert Hubbard
Constantly fearing to make a mistake will eventually push you into making the biggest mistake of all which is not doing anything. By doing nothing you become nothing and there’s nothing wrong about failing.
You are human, you are not supposed to know anything! Life is about learning and learning means being overwhelmed and then working your way through.
Be not afraid for life consists of mistakes! Go out there and enjoy them. Like I always say: Fail, try again, fail better!
/phil
Nothing can STOP the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can HELP the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson
It’s all about your mental attitude. Stop whining and don’t hope for other people’s help if your mind ist just fucked up.
Nobody can help you – no matter how great the effort may be – as long as you do not let them. Try nurturing a pet that has just decided not to eat any more without inflicting pain. It won’t work!
So get your head straight and problems will vanish or even better they won’t appear to begin with.
/phil
Whenever you are working on a task, may it be your homework or your lifetime dream,
and you come to that point when your motivation drops away. There are two ways to get your motivation back on track. First you can focus on the part you already achieved. Second you can focus on you goal and imagine how great you’ll feel once you’ve reached it. But these two strategies don’t always work same as good.
So… when you haven’t even finished the first half of you task it is much more motivating to focus on the progress you already made instead of the far away goal. But when you work on and your goal and it comes in sight its better to focus on the approaching sucess. Mind this and get yourself motivated again…
/robin
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock.
The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be suprised how far that gets you.
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You are not a child! You may still be able to have fun like a child (which is awesome), but you are responsible for yourself meaning you are responsible for your own well-being. Therefore you may blame it on other people or life in general that you just don’t have motivation, love, a purpose in life, but in the end it is you who suffers and takes the consequences.
Even if you were right and someone else was trying to make you feel bad what would that make you? Nothing more than someone who gets bullied around and instead of fighting back just points his finger towards others.
Don’t be that unreactive tool, rather take action, start living! You create your own life and you have to stop thinking that ‘one day’ you will just wake up with discipline, one day you will just get to know the love of your life without effort or one day you simply get told why you are on earth.
It is your task (and a fun one) to form your habits, your mind, your soul and your body. Yup, sounds cheesy, but come to think of it: Who else but you has power over your life? Noone you say? Damn right, that’s what I wanted you to say! So go out there and be the person who you wanted to be, say the things that you wanted to say and do the stuff that you wanted to do!
/phil
Today I steal a nice one from the guys over at brotip.com, you should give them a visit!
I mean life getting harder can always mean you just fucked up, but often the reason is that you succeeded at something. Because success normaly brings you to a new stage, a higher stage, where new challenges await you. New challenges are hard and therefore life gets tough.
But like Bruce Lee said, there are no limits, just plateaus and it lies in your willpower to go from plateau to plateau, higher and higher.
You can live on the ground with the principle of little input and little output meaning you keep your ambitions low and have an ‘easy’ and small life or you can go live a life where you make use of all the potential, of all the possibilities.
It’s your choice!
/phil
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Colin Powell
You are a human being, make use of that fact! You are able to learn from your mistakes and avoid them the next time. This ability is very important and too many people just don’t appreciate it enough. While preparation and hard work are concepts that take a little bit time to get used to, they still are understandable for most people. Failure on the other hand is like a stop-sign for most people, they accept it as final, which is in most cases bullshit!
Failing is life teaching you a lesson. You can take the lesson and start over again or you can go home and accept defeat. In both cases life will go on but only in one case you grow.
Decide to grow. Decide to learn! Decide to fail!
/phil
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey
It may feel good to wait for the big revealing of the secret. It may feel good to think that there is this magic trick that just brings you where you want to be without much effort.
Truth is it all comes down to hard work. Ask any successful person, they will tell you that hard work and hard work alone brought them where they are.
You can go there too! Stop waiting and awaiting, start working!
/phil
If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.
Tony Gaskins
You do have some kind of dream do you? Everybody has something they always wanted to do, something they always wanted to say, SOMETHING!
So go get it! Don’t waste your time and your talent for some other guy who just uses you to achieve his goals.
Don’t get me wrong: Helping people is awesome and it is a good thing to do. But you have to take care of your own ambitions, never lose focus!
/phil
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky
This goes perfectly together with Henry Ford saying that if he had asked the people what they wanted, they would have asked for faster horses.
Don’t ask people what they want because in most cases they simply don’t know it themselves. Of course this is not about being an asshole and doing whatever you want, but if you want to create something you should not always listen to people giving you their demands but you should feel free to make something that feels just good.
Without this attitude there would be no cars, no light-bulbs, no iPod, no iPad, nothing brilliant or excellent.
/phil
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