Quotes About Self-improvement

heart rate variability (HRV) training, meditation, and a number of deep work

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.

Who are the 20% of people who produce 80% of your enjoyment and propel you forward, and which 20% cause 80% of your depression, anger, and second-guessing? Identify: Positive friends versus time-consuming friends: Who is helping versus hurting you, and how do you increase your time with the former while decreasing or eliminating your time with the latter?

Exact numbers aren't needed to realize that we spend too much time with those who poison us with pessimism, sloth, and low expectations of themselves and the world.

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

Our next reads are Stretch by Scott Sonenshein and Lead Yourself First by Kethledge and Erwin.

Life doesn't have to be so damn hard. It really doesn't. Most people, my past self included, have spent too much time convincing themselves that life has to be hard, a resignation to 9-to-5 drudgery in exchange for (sometimes) relaxing weekends and the occasional keep-it-short-or-get-fired vacation.

The power broker in your life is the voice that no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our reality. For instance, how do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake that upsets you? Would you speak that way to a dear friend when they've made a mistake? If not, you have work to do. Trust me, we all have work to do.

As Bruce Lee said, "Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own." THE

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."–Criss Jami American poet and author of Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile

Free education is abundant, all over the Internet. It's the desire to learn that's scarce.

Whether or not you "need" someone at this point is immaterial. It is an exercise.

Timothy S. Lane

that thing you think everyone is saying. Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

I just try to try to keep an attitude that I don't know what I'm doing. Not to the point where I'm beating myself up, but I just go in thinking that I have a lot to learn. And I hope I still have that attitude 30 years from now.

The only person you should ever compete with is yourself. You can't hope for a fairer match.

A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.

Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

Todos pensam em mudar a humanidade e ninguém pensa em mudar a si mesmo.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.

There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?