lifestyle

Toolkit to activate excitement:

Act on your highest excitement

Whatever options are available to you at any given moment, choose the option that contains more excitement than the other (even if the excitement is just a little bit more)

To the best of your ability

Act on it to the best of your ability, taking it as far as you can until you can take it

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here's where things grow." Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.

"Without goals, training has no direction." - Natalie Coughlin

French philosopher Simone Weil encourages us to search the root cause:

"All sins are attempts to fill voids."

In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.” -Jack Kornfield

"The hardest thing to teach a student—and the hardest thing to believe consistently—is that there is nothing ‘out there’ to go and get. There is no part, no career, no opportunity for which you should be searching and scrounging and coveting. All of the preparation is within, and you keep yourself mentally and physically fit; you remain generous wi

“A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal, and this is true also of our friendships.” — Anne Lamott

Think of life as an opportunity to create and give.