Tag: quotes
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QOTD #31: Start Holding The Universe Accountable
“Until someone starts holding the universe accountable, we can expect it to remain indifferent to our preferences, and we may as well do what we can to adapt to this fact.” -Ryan Bush If the universe isn’t random, then, there’s some weight to this idea that the universe is conscious and, to some degree, maleable.…
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QOTD #30: It’s All a Matter of Perspective
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” -Anaise Nin It has been said that, “Perception is reality,” and in many profound ways this is true. At this very moment, we are perceiving things not as they are, but through the filture of our genetics, up-bringing, personal worldview, and past…
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QOTD #29: Why It’s Smart to Assume You’re Dumber than Everyone Else
“You make better decisions and learn more when you assume you’re dumber than anyone else.” -Alex Hormozi For the majority of our lives, we’re groomed to operate in personal and professional enviroments (like school) to show how smart we are. Because of this, we stunt our growth and make mistakes that need not be made.…
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QOTD #28: Get Stingy With Your Attention
“Wherever focus goes energy flows.” -Tony Robbins Emotion is energy in motion. Whatever we choose to invest our conscious awareness in and on is using up a portion of the finite amount of mental and emotional bandwith we have. Are we focused on the right things? Are there better ways to invest our time, energy,…
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QOTD #27: Planting in the Garden of Your Mind Part 2
“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.” -Earl Nightingale For our quote of the day, we’re doing a series of quotes that deal with the power of thought and how to make healthy deposits in the garden’s of our minds. Enjoy, and make…
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QOTD #26: Planting in the Garden of Your Mind Part 1
“A man’s mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.”…
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QOTD #25: Emotions Don’t Die, They’re Buried
For today’s Quote of the Day, we will contemplate a quote from Austrian neurologist and psycho-analyst, Sigmund Freud about the nature of dormant emotions. “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” ~ Sigmund Freud In a previous post, I talked about how emotions cannot be…
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QOTD #24: The Past… Your Not There
In today’s quote of the day, we entertain a healthy reminder to embrace the moment and not allow ourselves to be pulled too far into the future or the past. A good illustration of this point is in evaluating the functionality of the windshield and a rearview mirror. “There’s a reason why the winshield is…
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QOTD #23: The Key to “Having” A Great Day
For today’s Quote of the Day, let’s look at the most important element in “having” a great day. “Great days are made, not had.” -Daniel Fortune The most important element in having a great day is approaching each day with the mindset/outlook that great days aren’t passively “had,” but rather, are actively MADE. In it’s…
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QOTD #22: Life is a Spiritual Experience
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Today’s Quote of the Day is a powerful reminder about the nature of reality and our place in it. Reality is more than what we perceive through our senses. A materialistic view of…
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QOTD #21: The Face of Fear
In these areas where our amigdala is over-riding our neo-cortex, we need to be self-aware and practice exposure therapy. We need to gradually face our fears until they become less scary. Preferably, not kicking ans screaming but voluntarily. This is the cure.
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QOTD #20: Impossible or I’m Possible?
“My mistake wasn’t in saying something was impossible, but in saying something was impossible before I knew it.” -Moran Cerf Moran Cerf said it was impossible to record dreams, 3 years later someone in Japan was doing it and he was invited to work on the team. In their hit song, What Faith Can Do,…
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Wednesday Wisdom #1: Insights, Nuggets, and Sparks of Genius
“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.” -Thomas Jefferson What if we woke up every day thinking of ourselves as someone we needed to take care. Say a younger version of ourselves that needed guidance from an older, ideal version of ourselves? In this mentor/mentee relationship, would we be more friendly and…
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QOTD #19: The Wisdom of Trauma
“Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you, as a result of what happens to you.” — Dr. Gabor Maté Emotions are energy in motion. Trauma is emotion stored in our nervous system at the heart-brain level. It’s important in our healing process to remember that attempting to suppress our…
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QOTD #14: A Reminder to Breathe
If you’re like me and struggle with quieting your mind and meditating. Just do short breathing appointments throughout the day. Push passed the expected inertia you experience when implementing something new, but make sure it doesn’t become a “chore.”
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QOTD #12: Bending Reality to Your Will
For today’s quote of the day, we turn our attention to a quote from an author/entrepreneur that I respect, Tim Ferriss. In his best-selling book, The 4-Hour Work Week, he shares the many ways that we can trade the deferred life program for something far more self-serving and interesting. “Reality is negotiable.” -Tim Ferriss Caught…
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QOTD #11: Learn or Die
Today’s quote of the day is from Steven Kotler. In analyzing what it will take to remain personally and professionally competitive in the future, at the top of the list of core competencies to master is the ability to learn more than others can, faster than they can. “The ability to learn faster than your…
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QOTD #10: Just Take the Next Step
In today’s quote of the day, we’re looking at a quote from MLK to help us find the courage to show up by taking the very next step.
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QOTD #8: Stop Faking, Start Becoming
Piggy-backing off of the quote I shared yesterday, I’m sharing another quote from one of my favorite authors, Jeff Goins. Today’s quote of the day is another powerful reminder that we need to cast off the roles that others have chosen for us and decide who we TRULY are/what we TRULY desire. As cliche’ as…
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QOTD #7: What Roles Have You Been Assigned and Don’t Know It?
In today’s quote of the day, I turn to one of my favorite creatives, Jeff Goins. I highly encourage anyone who desires to do or deliver creative work to follow his content and read his best-selling book, Real Artists Don’t Starve. “The reason many of us never self-actualize is because it’s easier to play a…
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QOTD #6: Art is War… Expect Resistance!
That’s the challenge we face as adults living at the speed of life. There will never be a shortage of fear riddled excuses dressed in work clothes. A long list of doubts hiding behind a briefcase. Making a “living” is a racket!
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QOTD #5: What to Do With The Pain That Lingers
For today’s quote of the day, we draw inspiration from Susan Cain. The best selling author of the book, “Bitter-sweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make us Whole.” I recommend this book to anyone who has a hard time (like me) with some residual pain that lingers; showing up in the way we live and interact…
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QOTD #4: When Genius and Madness Touch
For today’s quote of the day, we draw some stoic inspiration from Aristotle. Outside the purview of the wide body of stoic philosophy Aristotle helped inspire, is this more “artistic” and abstract gem attributed to him. “There is no great genius without a touch of madness.” -Aristotle In one of his most impressionable quotes, Aristotle…
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QOTD #3: Einstein’s Day Dream – The Science of Creative Visualization
For today’s quote of the day, we’re examining how, arguably, the world’s greatest scientific minds of all time, harnessed the faculty of his imagination to make one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs. In our last installment of our QOTD posts, we talked about some of the negative ways our imagination can express itself and how…
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QOTD #2: Imagination – Curious Kid or False Prophet?
Today’s QOTD is from the ancient stoic philosopher, Seneca. One of his famous quotes is about the link between our imagination and suffering. Seneca famously said, “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
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QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!
When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…
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