Motivational

The common narrative is that kids learn faster than adults, but if you watch any toddler they spend a large portion of the day attempting things that are on the edge of their ability.

How much time have you spent on the edge of your ability today?

You can lose yourself one small compromise at a time.

You can transform yourself one small win at a time.

Poet and novelist Charles Bukowski on forging your own reality:

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it."

If you do not actively choose a better way, then society, culture, and the general inertia of life will push you into a worse way. The default is distraction, not improvement.

You don’t have to be good at everything, you just need to double down on what you’re naturally suited for.

Roman scholar and philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero on the value of making numerous attempts:

“For who is there who, shooting all day, will not sometimes hit the mark?”

Two simple rules:

1. You get better at what you practice.


2. Everything is practice.

Look around and you may be surprised by what people are “practicing” each day. If you consider each moment a repetition, what are most people training for all day long?

Many people are practicing getting mad on social media. Others are practicing the fine art of noticing how... See more

“You draw out of the world what you put into it.

Want to attract reliable people? Be reliable.

Want to attract trustworthy people? Be trustworthy.

Want to attract welcoming people? Be welcoming.

Want to attract exceptional people? Be exceptional.”

rain hard and focus on what you can control.