Don’t settle.
Don’t finish crappy books.
If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant.
If you’re not on the right path, get off it.
Chris Brogan
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Don’t be afraid
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Tag Archives: Courage
Excuses
The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.
Felix Baumgartner
There are two sorts of people. People who are good at excuses and people who succeed. You chose which side you prefer.
/phil
Courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is inspiring others to move beyond it.
Nelson Mandela
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About courage and fear
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon
Fear is natural and a good thing. Everybody has fear and everybody has a lot of fear.
Not giving a fuck – lunch-style
Fear is your mind telling you to be cautious wich is great. But you have to be able to cope with it. Know that fear is nothing dangerous or something to be afraid of. Use your fear, embrace it and still make rational decisions.
Fear is like a human being always yelling at you before you make something dangerous. You can run away scared or make the deliberate decision that this fear-guy has to shut up for a minute because you need to kick some ass!
/phil
How to build up self esteem
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.
Have no fear
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
Don’t take no shit! [wallpaper]
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Winston Churchill
Sometimes it is important to speak out loud and to express your opinion! Be bold, people will listen!
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A bit of Sunday Courage
Courage is knowing what not to fear.
Plato
Courage is not absence of fear nor is it liking fear. It is to know your fears and to be able to live with them.
Know what you fear and know what certain things you just should not fear, no matter how you feel. You can do that, I’m sure!
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Improve your life – be bold!
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anas Nin
Life can be damn beatiful you just have to allow yourself to enjoy it. Be curious, show some courage and you will be more than fine!
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An idea of work
When you think about work you should not think about something negative.
Your work should complete you as a person, it should embody your ideas and ideals.
Phil
I hate it when people start like “Meeeh, have to go to work again tommorow.”
I can understand when people have a little day-job just to get some bucks in order to support their real ideas of work. When they work in order to gain support for other plans, because, well, money is important after all.
But the attitude that you work in order to earn money to have a nice free time is just bullshit!
You want to tell me that you have to be bored or stressed out 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, just to have the so called freedom to do what you want? If that is your idea of freedom than you are a sad excuse for a human being.
Freedom is doing whatever you love for your living. It is this because only when you love what you are doing you can truly be excellent. You have to embrace your work, you have to fullfill your dreams with your work.
Work is not at all a negative term. I love that I have work to to, I easily get bored when I can’t work towards my dreams. I know that it is not like this with everyone but noone should hate their work. If you don’t like your job, quit!
Again, I do not talk about side-jobs to earn some extra pocket money, I talk about jobs that finance your life.
Everybody can do what he dreams of, you just have to have the courage to dig through a lot of tough shit in order to get there. But believe me: It is worth it! Keep digging, we’ll meet at the other side 😉
/phil
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