Quotes About Mindset

Strauss, Neil: "'The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.'—Norman Vincent Peale

Even if you are predisposed to being overweight, you're not predestined to be fat.

In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

We create stress for ourselves because you feel like you have to do it. You have to. I don't feel that anymore. —OPRAH WINFREY, actress and talk-show host, The Oprah Winfrey Show

If you're confused about life, you're not alone. There are almost seven billion of us. This isn't a problem, of course, once you realize that life is neither a problem to be solved nor a game to be won. If you are too intent on making the pieces of a nonexistent puzzle fit, you miss out on all the real fun. The heaviness of success-chasing can be replaced with a serendipitous lightness when you recognize that the only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.

As Tony Robbins would say, "The quality of your questions determines the quality of your life.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca Roman Stoic philosopher, famed playwright

Love yourself . . . You've got to love yourself before you can love others. Without it, nothing productive is going to happen, and we can all bang our heads on the wall.

Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Busy is a decision." Here's why: Of the many, many excuses people use to rationalize why they can't do something, the excuse "I am too busy" is not only the most inauthentic, it is also the laziest. I don't believe in "too busy." Like I said, busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is shorthand for "not important enough.

I will often write "GO FIRST" in my morning journal as a daily prompt.

Named must your fear be before banish it you can. —YODA, from Star Wars:

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits.

If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. Unreasonable and unrealistic goals are easier to achieve for yet another reason.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us." –Seneca

I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering.

So I think, every day, it's something to reflect on and think about 'How do I become less competitive in order that I can become more successful?

I used to resent obstacles along the path, thinking, "If only that hadn't happened life would be so good." Then I suddenly realized, life is the obstacles. There is no underlying path. Our role here is to get better at navigating those obstacles. I strive to find calm, measured responses and to see hindrances as a chance to problem-solve.

don't label a lot of things good/bad. [Instead, I ask] can I evolve from this? What do I want now?

What would this look like if it were easy? "This" could be anything. That morning, it was answering a laundry list of big questions. What would this look like if it were easy? is such a lovely and deceptively leveraged question. It's easy to convince yourself that things need to be hard, that if you're not redlining, you're not trying hard enough. This leads us to look for paths of most resistance, often creating unnecessary hardship in the process.

Define the worst case, accept it, and do it.

Esto se hace para que «no vuelvas a [las viejas creencias] a través de viejas fórmulas lingüísticas

Una de las principales convicciones que me limitaban a mí era:

No estoy programado para la felicidad», la cual reemplacé por: «La felicidad es mi estado natural».