Simple happiness

You come to realize that missing out on something —indeed, on almost everything—is basically guaranteed. Which isn’t actually a problem…because “missing out” is what makes our choices meaningful in the first place. Every decision to use a portion of time on anything represents the sacrifice of all the other ways in which you could have spent that

Am I doing this because someone else cares about it, or because I do?

The clearer you are about your priorities, the easier it is to say no.

-Shane Parrish, Brain Food #626

It may not surprise you that your life journey is the net sum of all the choices that you make along the way. What might surprise you though is that where most people mess up is not making the good or bad life choices, it’s actually missing the choices that pass them—unnoticed—as they barrel through life.

-Paul Bascobert