Change comes from stability

The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.

Stephen R. Covey

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Development!

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.

Peter Drucker

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Complete destruction

For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth it would look like complete destruciton.

Cynthia Occelli

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Change the circumstances

If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.

Anthony J. D’Angelo

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How to expect change

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you’ve got.

Jim Rohn

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Self-awareness

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Abraham Maslow

Bruce Lee Week #7: On reaching goals

I consider this one to be mainly a fitness/sports motivation, but you can apply it to many other things also:

Long term consistency beats short term intensity.

Bruce Lee

This is a simple, yet important concept. Doing 10 minutes of pushups or situps every day for 30 days is much better than doing half an hour every sunday for a month. Especially when it comes to training, wether muscle or brain training, it is about consitency and repition.

Progress takes time and the longer you train something, the more profound your knowledge will be in that field. This is why you can learn a language in a year but you won’t be able to master it in that time for example. And this is why discipline is so very important.

We are all used to little boosts of motivation every now and then. Suddenly you want to get fit, you get up early, hit the gym, eath healthy, you change your whole routine. This won’t last long, I can promise it. Instead, make small changes and focus on consistency. Start small, but don’t slack off. You will improve greatly, just be patient!

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Wise words from the Dalai Lama

Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

Dalai Lama

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You are what you think

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Wayne Dyer

What you think especially changes how things happen to you.

How you react with your environment and how you percieve situations is the key to a happy life.

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Change!

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

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