self-improvement
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We spend a huge portion of our lives working. This is how life has always been. Therefore what work we do is incredibly important. What makes the work itself important? Is it the necessity of the work? The benefit it brings to the world? How many people are impacted or how impacted those people are?…
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We don’t rise to the occasion, we fall to the level of our training. I can’t recall where I heard this. It may have been from Navy Seal Commander Jocko Willink. It’s a great reminder of the importance of training. The legends in many different fields that we look up to all take training incredibly…
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Inspired by investing legend Ray Dalio’s book Principles that I’m reading, I’ve begun drafting my own principles. Here is where I’m at:
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Tony Robbins says ‘trade your expectations for appreciation and you have a new life’. I found this to be profound and really believe it. When you care to focus on it, you realize there is a great deal to appreciate. That things you’ve been expecting you may have been taking for granted. An insatiable appetite…
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To find what is worth doing and do it well. To do it alongside people you trust and respect. You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. To persist in adversity when it inevitably arrives. To share your experience, which will encourage and inform others. Even if you don’t think it’s incredible or…
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Ed Mylett talks about having an identity thermostat. You set the temperature. The external conditions (weather) do not dictate your temperature. They might impact how hard you have to work to stay at your temperature, but you are in control. He says long-term you will never exceed what you believe you’re worth, and if you’re…
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Gary Keller of Keller-Williams wrote a book called the One Thing. It’s an idea that’s been expressed in many different ways, and is incredibly valuable but doesn’t come naturally. The concept of the One Thing is to prioritize doing the one thing that will make everything else unnecessary or easier. It means thinking about what…
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Tim Ferriss has a podcast on this topic with Tony Robbins. He also has one with Brene Brown on striving vs self acceptance, a similar concept. What’s the right balance to strike between these two – fulfillment and achievement, or said another way striving and self-acceptance. It’s an important question to ask and craft a…
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Seemingly small practices have an enormous impact on our quality of life. Staying consistent in a positive habit is powerful even if it doesn’t seem significant or you aren’t spending a great deal of time, energy or effort on it. The consistency grounds us and tells our subconscious that we do what we say we…
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There is a proverb “if there is no enemy within the enemy outside, can do us no harm”. That speaks to ourselves often being our own, worst enemy and harshest critic. In times when we struggle with this, with our perfectionism that has never resulted in perfection, we can be tempted to wage a war…
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