Quotes About Growth

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.

you have to be willing to fall down, get up, look stupid, cry, laugh, make a mess, clean it up and not stop until you get there. No matter what.

You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life. If you want to live a life you've never lived, you've to do things you've never done.

All this is to say that it's not your fault that you're fucked up. It's your fault if you stay fucked up, but the foundation of your fuckedupedness is something that's been passed down through generations of your family, like a coat of arms or a killer cornbread recipe, or in my case, equating confrontation with heart failure. When

Nobody who ever accomplished anything big or new or worth raising a celebratory fist in the air did it from their comfort zone.

INSPIRATIONAL NOTE TO SELF: Flowers grow in sand. I can do anything.

You don't have to hit rock bottom to make a change. You can just decide.

And yes, at the beginning it may feel like you're lying to yourself, but the truth is, you're living the lie, so the affirmations get you back to truth.

You're gonna have to push past your fears, fail over and over again and make a habit of doing things you're not so comfy doing. You're going to have to let go of old, limiting beliefs and cling to your decision to create the life you desire like your life depends on it. Because guess what? Your life does depend on it. As

lots of people wish for change, really, really want it, are willing to invest the time and money into it, but are ultimately not willing to get uncomfortable enough to actually make anything happen.

We've been raised to believe that you have to work hard to make money, and certainly there are times when this is true, but the real secret is you have to take huge, uncomfy risks. You have to do stuff you've never done before, to make yourself visible, to acknowledge your own

Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.

When it comes to changing your life, if you're not scared, you're doing something wrong.

You can't experience new lands from the confines of your comfort zone.

When you commit to transforming your life, you commit to getting very uncomfortable over and over and over again.

When you hang out with whiners, pessimists, tweakers, bleakers, freakers-outers, and life-is-so-unfairers, it's an uphill climb to keep yourself in a positive headspace. Stay away from people who see limitless possibility as the reality. Surround yourself with people who act on their big ideas, who take action on making positive change in the world and who see nothing as out of their reach.

don't have to know exactly where it's going to take you, you just need to start with one thing that feels right and keep following right-feeling things and see where they lead.

As Winston Churchill so aptly explained, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Finding the good and the lessons in things allows us to move through them and on to new experiences. If you wanna stay stuck in the same place and keep getting spanked with the same lessons over and over, be negative, resentful, and victimized. If you want to get over your issues and rock your life, be grateful, look for the good and learn.

Here's the thing: Making money isn't only about the money, just as losing weight isn't only about losing weight and finding your soul mate isn't only about finding your soul mate. It's about who you become and what you believe is possible for yourself.

People who are successful are not only willing to get uncomfortable, but they know they have to make a habit of it if they want to stay successful.

How do you forgive the stupid bastard?

If you want to live a life you've never lived, you have to do things you've never done.