Mateo Balaña Paemen
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Mateo Balaña Paemen
What man needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task. What he needs is not a homeostatic equilibrium, but rather the will to meaning, guiding him toward a future that is yet to be made his own.
- Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via Max McCoy on youtube)
One day, the farmer’s one and only horse runs away. The farmer’s neighbors come by to say they can’t believe it, “What bad luck!” The farmer shrugs, “Good luck? Bad luck? It’s impossible to know.” A few days later, the horse returns with a herd of wild horses, and the neighbors swing by again, “What good luck!” The farmer shrugs, “Good luck? Bad... See more
A story I’d heard before and I love
I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade.” He was then asked, Who didn’t make it out of Vietnam? “Oh, that’s easy,” Stockdale said. “The optimists. Oh, they... See more
Faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of circumstance. Don’t hang your hopes on individual events.
*The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.**–*Mark McGuinness, [Manage Your... See more
James Clear • Never Check Email Before Noon (And Other Thoughts on Doing Your Best Work)
Ok, this year I’m going to get better at this. Next year, that.’ And so forth and so on. And patiently, I got better.” Patiently, he repeats. “It was piece by piece. It was the consistency of the work. The consistency of the work: Monday, get better. Tuesday, get better. Wednesday, get better. You do that over a period of time—three, four, five,... See more
Patience. Be better everyday.
TIME DEBTS are actions or choices you make today that will cost you additional time in the future.
JamesClear.com • A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity
I would suggest that we all spend some time considering the likelihood that when nothing is happening, something is happening
This is not to say that all time debts are bad. Perhaps you enjoy serving on your school committee or volunteering with a local organization. However, when you make these commitments, you are also creating a time debt that you will have to pay at some point. Sometimes the debts we commit to are worth sacrificing for, many times they are not.
JamesClear.com • A Different Way of Thinking About Productivity
Ivy Lee implemented this method with the employees of Charles Schwab, one of the richest men in the world, at the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1918. The cost of the training? “Nothing” Lee said, “Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it's worth to you.”