Don’t go with the flow

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
Frank Zappa

While there is nothing wrong with being conform to the mass every now and then, especially when it is your honest opinion, you should always try to question the norm.

Why? Because a mass is way more sluggish than an individual and being sluggish contradicts making progress!

You want to make progress, don’t you? Well then don’t give a fuck and just go for it, no questions asked!

/phil

Do not worry!

Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it doesn’t get you anywhere.

Glen Turner

I’ve always liked this quote and therefore was very happy when I found this gem the other day:

When it comes to worries, it is easy.

Just don’t!

Have a good day 🙂

/phil

Pick out high quality people to hang out with

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Surround yourself with high quality people who inspire and challenge you

This is so damn important!

There is a lot of truth in the proverb

If you want to find out who a person is, take a look at his three closest friends

Why? Because you are influenced very strongly by the people who are around you constantly.

Youn don’t become them, but you sync in with the time. This process should be watched and should commence with high quality people from whom you can actually learn something.

So don’t waste your time, go the extra mile and start spending a lot of quality time with quality people (not only best friends, but your parents/grand parents/sisters/brothers also by the way!)

/phil

Be thankful!

there is always something to be thankful for.

Song-Ug Yoon

It seems obvious, but you have to remember this one every time you feel down!

There is always something that you can be thankful for so don’t let life treat you badly, enjoy the good things!

/phil

So what about procrastination? [Wallpaper]

/phil

You choose your way!

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attiturde in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Viktor Frankl

Wow, powerful!

I don’t know any quote or example that shows the importance of this fact in a more clear way. YOU decide who you are and it is not at all depending on outer circumstances.

So use this possibility to make the best out of yourself and stop blaming anything but you for your character!

/phil

Master change

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

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Get out of your comfort zone!

Don’t be afraid to move out of your comfort zone.  Some of your best life experiences and opportunities will transpire only after you dare to lose.

I read this quote the other day and thought to myself:

EVERYTHING good in life comes from getting out of your comfort zone.

And if you have something else that you really like than you attained it by abandoning your comfort zone in the past.

Don’t think your “comfort” zone is called that because it is actually a good thing, it just gives you the mere illusion of a comfortable lifestyle, but not a life worth living.

Get out there. Start today, start NOW!

/phil

The importance of goals

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Robert Schuller

Goals are very important, you got to have them!

Short-term goals als well as long-term goals, small goals as well as very hard goals, you must have some perspectives in life and goals give you this perspective and motivate you.

/phil