The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway
Sometimes life takes its toll on you, but do not worry. Keep going, keep going strong and keep smiling!
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You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of you success is found in your daily routine.
John C. Maxwell
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You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
Zig Ziglar
Well this one does not need much explanation. Daydreaming and procrastination are your enemies when facing challenges in life. Get off your lazy ass and start working towards your goals, nothing has ever been achieved without a start, no matter how bad it had looked in the beginning.
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The world is a fucking mess. It is full of dragons and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d like to be, and that sucks. But when you’re confronted with that fact, you can either crawhl into a hole and quit, or you can get out there, take off your shoes, and Bilbo it up!
Patrick Rothfuss
Think of those dragons as challenges. Daily challenges like getting up early or being disciplined or long-term challenges like being happy in a personal way or successful in any way. You have to fight those dragons and train yourself in battle!
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This sports motivation video contains great advice for anybody and speaks directly out of my soul. There are burning reasons within everyone to get up early, to train hard, work hard, do whatever one loves. You just have to find them and trust your gut.
Even more important is to mute your inner voice of automated excuses. Yes, your brain will find excuses for everything, always. Yes, they seem plausible on the first glance. No, they are not. They are distractions, obstacles that you have to overcome in order to get where you want to go!
The choice between the comfortable and the right thing to do is not always easy, but it gets easier with time. You can train discipline. No more excuses, start your training today!
When we accept tough jobs as a challenge to our ability and wade into them with joy and enthusiasm, miracles can happen. When we do our work with a dynamic conquering spirit, we get things done.
Gilbert Arland
Work is not torture, obstacles are not some sort of bad fate.
Work and obstacles give you challenges to overcome, riddles to solve. Take them on and you will be rewarded in many ways.
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Storms make oaks take roots.
Only through chaos and conflict you will learn to cope with problematic situations.
Living a live without challenges, without dead-ends, would make you a pretty boring and also pretty weak on your own.
You have to embrace challenges in order to grow with them, in order to become more awesome day by day.
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ever found yourself lacking self-esteem or having trouble doing certain tasks that you felt you should be able to do?
I have a cure for that. Challenge yourself! Chose any given task that is a personal challenge, may it be going to the club alone, talking to strangers, building something, jumping out of a plane, whatever it is that you are scared of.
Take this task/challenge and go for it! Embrace your fear, embrace your uncomfortable feeling! You will push through, you will suceed and finally you will feel great, comfortable, full of self-esteem and courage.
Every once in a while you have to achieve tasks, you have to prove to yourself: I can do it! If your job or your hobbies don’t give you this good feeling of having achieved something than you have to add it to your life in other ways.
This is for example why video games or games in general are so popular. Achieving stuff, no matter how small, lets us grow as persons. We show ourselves and others: I still got it, I can learn to do something that I was not able to do before, I am awesome!
I dare you. I double-dare you! Go out and prove to yourself that you are in fact awesome!
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You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Napoleon Hill
When someone gives you an important task and you want to impress this certain somebody then remember to GET IT DONE!
If course it seems reasonable to come back with a good excuse and he will most likely not judge you if you have good reasons, but what is more important is that the person remembers giving you a task and you being unable to complete it.
No matter how good the reason, the next time he will think of someone to complete an important task he will not think like
“Who could get it done if there were no obstacles”
but rather
“Who gets my shit done without coming back to me before he is finished with a task”.
You may be lucky enough that there is not such a person and you as the second choice will still be the man to do the job but would it not be better to be the first choice to begin with?
Of course it would be. And that is why you get your shit done! If someone gives you a task and you want to help him out, you get it done.
By the way, this is one of the very idealistic posts, don’t take it literally. There are perfect reasons for coming back to a person without having fullfilled their tasks but this is a general idea of how work should function and how delegation of work should apply.
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A warrior sees life’s obstacles as opportunities. He doesn’t shy away from challenges- rather he seeks them, knowing that they represent the greatest experiences of life.”
Sensophy
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