“Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.”
– Jim Rohn
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Month: March 2019
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“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
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Finding the right balance between success and self-improvement is a game we all play in our lives to a certain extent. Some of us tend to veer more towards one or the other, but they are both goals we strive for.
What habits can help us be more successful?
What habits can help us work on self-improvement?
Many times, they won’t be compatible. Author Niklas Göke suggests that instead of looking for those habits that fulfill both goals, we should first focus on those habits that are hindering us.
- Give Up Reducing Your Dimensions
- Give Up The Imitation Game
- Give Up Looking in Favour or Seeing
- Give Up Living in Outcomes
- Give Up All Happiness Outside Yourself
- Give Up Waiting
- Give Up the Make Pretend
- Give Up Anything But Loving Yourself
Here is the full article: What Habits Does Your Best Self Not Have?
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“In reality, failure is simply feedback. It’s not that you are bad or not good enough or incapable. Failure (or feedback) gives you the opportunity to look at what’s not working and figure out how to make it work.”
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Oftentimes what makes our life really hard is criticism. Or rather, fear of criticism.
Pursuing our goals becomes a daunting task when we think people will be judging us; the fact that we are often our worst critics makes it even more daunting.
We’re told that we should just ignore those voices, just ignore those criticisms. But how can you do that when it’s your own inner voice telling you that everything you do is wrong?
Well, Brené Brown suggests we shouldn’t try to quieten those voices: we should rather tell them “Tell them, I see you, I hear you, but I’m going to do this anyway”.
Here is her wonderful TED Talk on Criticism:
“Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull’s life is so short, and with these gone from his thought, he lived a long fine life indeed.”
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Do you ever feel overwhelmed by all that you have to accomplish, all the deadlines, responsibilities?
Do you ever wonder how on earth you can juggle it all, obtain good (if not excellent) results, while still remaining sane?
Well, here is the simple answer: you just can’t.
It is important to learn how to prioritise our tasks and identify small steps that can help us to reach our goals in a progressive way. Only by doing so will we be able to be productive and stress-free at the same time.
In his book “The Power of Less”, Leo Babauta talks about how to find what is truly important to you and how to pursue it successfully in order to lead a satisfying life.
Here is a quick (only 4 minutes!) summary of the book: Four Minutes Books – The Power of Less
And here is the book for those of you who wish to read all of it: The Power of Less
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“The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
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The Diplo calendar 2019 realized by Stefano Baldi presents a selection of quotes for better living and better working.
All the quotes are about animals and their behaviours, their instincts and the complexity of their social dynamics.
Here is the selected quotation for the month of March
An old fox understands the trap
Latin Proverb
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