Are you envious?

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered

Aeschylus

You should give your friends respect and honour their accomplishments. Don’t envy their achievements but rather compliment them while working on your own. It is great that they succeed, you should support and enjoy that. What is more cool than having happy and successful friends?

Don’t destroy their success with envy and don’t suck the fun out of sharing achievements with close friends and family.

You will be suprised how much more awesome it feels when you can be happy with and for your friends rather than sitting in the dark corner and thinking fun-consuming thoughts about why they succeeded and you did not.

/phil

Yolo? A motivating reason to disagree [picture]

You only live once? Well I tend to disagree and this webcomic displays perfectly why:

So go out and do what you love and do it well. Start with one skill set, master it, then move on.

/phil

Positivity! :)

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Being happy and satisfied is something that happens inside your head, not something that comes from somewhere out there in the world.

Tell yourself that the world is awesome and you will realize that in fact it truly is! Just believe how amazing your life is and you will be way more satisfied with your situation.

When you wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror and genuinely smile! It will make you laugh, because it feels strange to smile at yourself for no reason and laughing is the best way to start the day! 🙂

/phil

About regret

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.

Victoria Holt

Don’t dwell in the past and think about your mistakes. This simple quote should remind you of what is important in life. Making stuff happen. Mistakes also happen, don’t worry too much.

/phil

Just be awesome

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.

Mark Twain

Just live an awesome life. Don’t brag about it, don’t teach other people lessons, don’t criticize too much, instead just have fun and be a fun person.

That will actually motivate others a lot more to be awesome and give them way more to think about than stupid talks about a good moral attitude or lifestyle.

/phil

Everybody starts small

Every artist was first an amateur.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t be discouraged by being not good at something. You will get good eventually if you put in work. You love it? Do it!

/phil

Failure, like it, embrace it!

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Don’t fear being wrong. Actually being wrong means you tried and learned a way that is not working therefore you know more about the thing you tried than before. Failing is learning by doing and learning by doing is extremely efficient. Don’t be too scared to learn!

/phil

Don’t like working out? Listen up!

No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
What disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
Socrates

Birthday post, *yay* 🙂 This is a personal one, for sports is a pretty important topic to me and I love talking about it.

You are young and capable! As long as you are not physically handicapped you have no reason for not working out. It does not even count to say “I don’t like it”. If you told your parents you didn’t like studying in high school they were damn right to make you so either way.

With physical exercise it is almost the same but there is no one to kick your ass if you back out. So you have to be the one kicking your own ass, you have to be the one that tells yourself: Keep it up, feel a little pain daily but a lot of strenght in the long term.

The benefits are endless! Not only will you life healthier, you will also feel more confident, be more happy and less stressed. Sports and exercise are perfect for everyone and there is such a diversity of sports that you definitely will find something you peronally like!

I challenge you to start worling out immediately, starting with this day! On top of that, drink lots of tasty, tasty water. Why? This is not a diet you say and I agree. But water and training will increase your well-being and as important as that your well-feeling extremely. So start today, don’t even THINK about excuses, I dare you! Get up, put on your shoes, start running, put on your swim gear, start swimming, get on the floor, start push-ups. Start now and do not stop, make this a damn beautiful habit!

/phil

Watch your thoughts

A man is what he things about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You thoughts define your habits and character traits, watch them carefully!

/phil

Give happiness

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

Edith Wharton

Happiness is a positive thing. People are attracted to it. You want to sorround yourself with happy people, not with sad people. So you can do you best to amplify happiness at all times.

Either by just being happy and living a happy life or by reflecting other people’s happy lives. Talk about your achievements, talk about their achievements. Laugh about your failures, don’t dwell on mistakes, be bright, always have a smile in your sleeve!

Everyone wants to be happy so just help them out by showing them how easy it is! Smile, enjoy, be careless, have fun and others will join in!

/phil