Motivational

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?”

The best way to handle pressure is to apply it.

What if you played the game like you were always on offense?

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 can lose yourself one small compromise at a time.

You can transform yourself one small win at a time.

Your biological age is the number of days you’ve lived.

Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you’ve entertained.

Your sociological age is the number of contributions you’ve made.

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.

Writer and professor Joseph Campbell on loving your fate:

“Nietzsche was the one who did the job for me. At a certain moment in his life, the idea came to him of what he called “the love of your fate.”

Whatever your fate is, whatever the hell happens, you say, “This is what I need.” It may look like a wreck, but go at it as though it were an opportun... See more

rain hard and focus on what you can control.