It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will never reach our ultimate goal. The effort yields its own rewards.
Data (Star Trek)
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Lao Tzu
We tend to be impatient when it comes to a lot of things.
Especially when it is about gathering material goods we strive for instant gratification and can’t wait even a little bit. But also when it is about long-term goals like fitness or monetary wealth we tend to rush things and get to eagerly.
It is great to trust in things working out. A lot of processes need time and constant improvement, rather than intensive short-term care. Take your time and enjoy the growth, even if it is not easy to be spotted every every second of the process.
Sometimes try to think of progress like you think of a growing tree: Not much at all. It just grows every day without you realising it and then some day you look out of the window and are astounded by the sheer magnitude of that tree.
Care for constant improvement and work on your goals, don’t let impatience make you focus too much on instant grafitication rather than long-term results.
/phil
You have exactly one life to live to do everything you ever wanted. Stop wasting it caught up in things that don’t matter.
/phil
The only difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is extraordinary determination.
Mary Kay Ash
/phil
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Sir John Lubbock
/phil
Develop a clear vision. Where do you want to be in five years?
Brian Tracy
/phil
Achieving your vision doesnt mean youve reached the end of the line. It simply means that youve come to a new starting place.
Nido Qubein
/phil
Let me start with issuing you a challenge:
Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.
Herb Brooks
The key idea of goals is that they are big, that they seem unattainable.
Only this way you will experience this great feeling of accomplishment, once you’ve reached your goals.
/phil
I read this awesome idea at reddit the other day and I wanted to share it with you:
Write down the things you wish you could do when you have no time, then do those things when you’re bored.
As simple as that.
We all know the feeling of daily stress and having a lot on our minds. Often the best ideas come at the worst times and sometimes we just postpone them mentally until we forget. The next time we think of them we are likely to be in another stressful situation without much time on our hands.
On the other hand there are times when we sit around, have nothing much to do and think about what we could possibly do (other than watching TV, playing videogames or any other leisure activity). This will be the time when your new To-Do-List comes in. It is different than your typical To-Do-List, because it is not a list of things that you have to do right now, but a list of things that you would love to do “if you got time to do it”. So basically every time you will look at the list, you will have a great pool of ideas to work on.
Typical entries on such a list could be things like “Write a letter to my grandparents” or “Get started on learning some coding language”
Be careful though not to write down idea after idea without ever acting on them. Nothing is more frustrating than a long and meaningless To-Do-List without anything actually crossed out.
That’s it for today, I hope some of you think of this idea as highly as I do.
Good luck with your lists!
/phil
A friend of mine recently introduced me to a new concept of motivation and a nice idea for a simple reminder in our everyday life.
The idea is the following: As soon as you set yourself a goal (preferably a daily one), you put a rubber band around your wrist, let’s say your left one. For example: Your goal is to make 50 pushups on a daily basis. Every morning you will put your rubber band on your left wrist and it stays there as long as you have not completed your 50 push-ups.
Once you have achieved your daily goal though, the rubber band switches wrists and sits on your right wrist for the rest of the day (Or you can take it off).
This is a great way of reminding you again and again and it also provides a good feeling of “having something achieved” as soon as you see the rubber on your “done”-side.
One additional tip: Use a hair tie instead of a common household rubber band as it is way more comfortable.
/phil
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