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Tag Archives: Motivation
The positive effects of pressure
To achieve great things, two things are needed. A plan, and not quite enough time.
Leonard Bernstein
Awesome quote! And it is so true.
Having a tight time schedule creates the certain kind of pressure that just gets you to get stuff done. It forces you to get going, which can be extremely motivating.
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It’s a question of naming things
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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Self-awareness
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow
It’s all about judgement
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
Charles Addams
Right, wrong, normal, strange, those concepts are not percieved universally. They are subjective and it is important to keep that in mind!
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Enhanced vision
Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Live Happiness
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama
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Find new paths!
The one who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.
Albert Einstein
Explore, go your own ways, trust your gut and have courage!
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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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Bruce Lee Week #6: Create your world
To hell with circumstances, I create opportunities.
Bruce Lee
There are a lot of things that can not be controlled. Life will put you in situations that you do not like at all. But although you can not control those situations, you can control your reactions to them.
How you react to situations and given circumstances defines what you can make out of them. You can turn a bad situation into a good opportunity. Having a flat tire? Great, you will learn how to change a tire! Your usual bus route is cancelled due to whatever reason? Awesome, time to learn a new route.
Okay, those examples are pretty mundane, but you get the point. It is about you feel and react towards what life throws at you that makes you happy or not. It is very important to realise that there is a lot out of your control and to just let it go. That’s just how it is, so don’t worry and make the best out of it.
Also, don’t wait for right moments all the time. Often, there is no right time. The right time is an imaginary moment you created in order to prolong decisions and bold actions. Create the right moment by acting!
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