Good Advice
Just overall good guidance.
Good Advice
Don’t let your worst moments become your story.
You blow the presentation and spend the drive home scripting perfect comebacks to an audience that’s already gone. Your relationship ends, and you spend months replaying conversations that can’t be changed. All the time spent perfecting the past is stolen from the future that’s still waiting.
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You blow the presentation and spend the drive home scripting perfect comebacks to an audience that’s already gone. Your relationship ends, and you spend months replaying conversations that can’t be changed. All the time spent perfecting the past is stolen from the future that’s still waiting.
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“I can’t control the other person’s behavior, but I can control my response. Their actions may be rude or unacceptable, but I still want my response to be measured and thoughtful. Even if they aren’t doing what is right, I still want to make sure I’m doing what is right.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: How to be consistent, the value of beauty, and designing for relaxation
“The most common response when we’re scared is avoidance.
The longer we wait, the greater the fear.
Action reduces fear.”
The longer we wait, the greater the fear.
Action reduces fear.”
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Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you’re making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to make the straightforward decision?
James Clear • 3-2-1: What Top Performers Do, and How to Deal With Critics and Detractors
“Focus on the things you are for, not the things you are against.
Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.
You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love.”
Many people spend large chunks of their day thinking about what they hate. They are always telling you about something they dislike: this food, that subject, this political party, that coworker.
You are more than your frustrations. Build your identity around what you love.”
James Clear • 3-2-1: On good genes, personal responsibility, and how to appreciate your precious time
Focusing on past accomplishments creates obstacles to success in the present. If you're still talking about something great you did 20 years ago like it was yesterday, your ego is getting in the way.
What you did in the past makes a good story. What you're doing now makes a difference.
What you did in the past makes a good story. What you're doing now makes a difference.
Brain Food: Humility, Math, and Courage
“Is your reading and research supplementing your actions or substituting for them? Research is useful until it becomes a form of procrastination.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: The value of questions, the power of small acts, and how life rewards courage
The quicker you want something, the easier it is to manipulate you.
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“If you’re 37... Instead of regretting that you can’t wake up age 18 again, pretend to yourself that you’re 90 and you’ve woken up age 37 again, and that you get to magically, wonderfully have the next 50 years again.”