Trust yourself

A bird sitting on a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because its trust is not in the branch but in its own wings.

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Think before you speak

Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.

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Take action!

he path to success is to take massive, determined action.

Tony Robbins

I have the feeling people often ignore the importance of actually getting stuff done.

Want to get somewhere? Well put some work in!

The most important thing in achieving anything is working your butt off. Yes, there are factors like luck or bad luck, but in my experience luck comes to the hardworking and diligent people, not to the lazybones.

Letting each day pass by, just getting along, daydreaming won’t get you far. Start to take some responsibility and start acting. You do not have to build an empire within a day and you do not have to follow through with everything you start. Maybe you realise that you want to try out other ideas some weeks in, that does not matter.

Start with confidence, start boldly, start today!

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Chose a character

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Put some work in

Don’t be upset by the result you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.

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Step it up!

There is no elevator to success.

You have to take the stairs.

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No time? Write it down!

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

Look around!

Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.

Napoleon Hill

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