Thoughts
Spend more time building the world that we want our children to live in and not just the life we want them to live.
When working on a project, take the first thing you come up with and say I can do better. Do the same with the second and third until you reach what seemed impossible.
Choose to believe that people are better than their actions.
Choose to believe that you are better than your actions, then try to bring those in line.
Don’t be the person that sees something in someone else’s teeth and doesn’t say anything.
Involve the people you care about in your world, the good and the bad. You’re not helping them at all by keeping them in the dark. You’re only teaching them to suffer alone with their own problems and burdens.
Consider changing your strategy for addressing recurring problems or situations.
Our personal reality is pretty unique to us. Understanding other realities can help us solve our problems.
A person who has tried and failed can tell you what success looks like, but not how to get there.
The problems we avoid don’t go away just because we stop looking in that direction.
Sometimes we try out a perspective before we can see if it works for us.
Sometimes keeping your mouth shut is the best contribution you can make.
Don’t be afraid to lean on the people who actually care about you. You’re not abusing them, and they won’t break.
Don’t be afraid to take a few steps back, in order to move forward.
Life is a process, not a set of destinations.
Don’t argue why you can’t, because it’s an argument you’ll always win.
The greatest opponent we face in life is ourselves.
Don’t ignore something just because there is no way for you to fix it.
Just because something happened as an unavoidable accident doesn’t mean you aren’t still responsible for cleaning up the mess.
Your ego is willing to accept unhappiness in order to achieve comfort.
Our world is full of people. You’re missing most of it if you only look at the world from your perspective.
Be there for someone but don’t tell them what it cost you to do so.
Practice the art of thinking more of you without thinking less of others.
Put fewer empty things in your life; empty words, empty promises, empty calories, and time killers.
What you want is the dessert of life, what you need is the nourishment.
Even the people you can trust you can’t trust in every situation. We can’t even trust ourselves. We all have our weaknesses and moments.
Taking care of a person is not the same as taking care of a relationship.
Spend less thought on what you want to say, and more on what you want people to hear.
Life owes you nothing more than opportunities; the choice to see them is yours.
The harder you work the easier things get, the easier you take it the harder things become.
There are people just like you in this world that do the impossible.
Things do NOT have a way of working themselves out.
Avoiding the negative is less likely to make you happy than pursuing the positive.
Your mood can determine if you enjoy something, but it should never determine if you do it.
Your limitations are suggestions are not requirements. Feel free to ignore the ones you don’t like.
Being strong for others helps us to be strong for ourselves.
You can always make yourself a person that can handle the things you feel like you can’t handle now.
Do fewer things, but do more of them well.
Never feel diminished by how others shine. If it really bothers you simply say, “Challenge accepted.”
Be generous with what you give, but not with what you allow people to take.
Strategy is more likely to determine the outcome than strength.
Study the world like an illustrator, always looking for the details we are capable of seeing but rarely do.
I am amazed at how miserable people insist on making themselves in the eternal pursuit of happiness. I’d rather be content and at peace.
Beautiful sometimes to realize how few of the things that we have do we really even need.
Almost doing something is almost exactly the same as not doing it at all.
When you wake up, don’t be afraid to find that your dreams have changed.
If you want something big, start by wanting the smaller things that will get you there.
All the things that make you different are like superpowers, learn to use them; otherwise they will get in your way.
Everything you think is a strength can be a shortcoming if you don’t learn to master it.
Everything you think is a shortcoming can be a strength when you learn to master yourself.
Ask for help when you can use it.
Find the humor in life and you’ll find the ability to thrive.
Taking credit is not the same as holding yourself accountable.
Blaming yourself is not the same as holding yourself accountable
Fighting is ok and necessary, fight for what you believe in and stand up for yourself.
When someone asks you a question about your experience, try not to get so caught up in yourself that you forget to ask about theirs.
I think humor is a sign is wisdom. The wisest of us can even find reasons to laugh at a funeral, but of course they won’t.
The more history we can see, the easier we can see the future.
You may never know what you want to be when you grow up.
Sometimes liars make mistakes when telling lies.
Failure is a step in the stairs to success, the more you fail the closer you get — unless of course you’re headed in the wrong direction.
I may not get where I thought I was going, but I’ll never stop going where I am headed.
Hardships can always be looked upon more favorably when we benefit from having endured them.
If we were less arrogant and recognized ourselves as animals, we’d have an easier time taking care of ourselves and each other.
We all suffer the need for something meaningful in our lives. If we don’t get it then we simply suffer. So find it, take it, and hold on to it.
The same way others can’t know everything about you because of their perspective, you can’t see everything about you because of yours.
Save your strongest feelings for accomplishments in the real world.
If you don’t think you’re strong enough, find a way to prove yourself wrong.
The person who is willing to put in the effort and commitment that you won’t is out there living the life that you wanted.
Ask yourself “what’s the difference between me and the people who succeed where I want to.” It’s ok of you only come up with questions, because those will be worth finding the answer to.
Have a bias towards action. Thoughts don’t amount to much without it.
Changing course is not the same as giving up.
Avoiding responsibility often means finding yourself in the same situation again, and again, until you do.
Just because someone is content with little, doesn’t mean that’s all they’re capable of.
We can’t teach people to not let their emotions get the better of them, by getting fed up when they do.
Leave things better than the way you found them.
Adapt to changes whenever they occur.
Don’t be so focused on the goal that you can’t appreciate how far you’ve traveled.
Try to live your life so you never have regret.
Teach yourself to fear nothing. Caution is healthy, fear is optional.
Train yourself to recognize your excuses, and plan against them.
It’s ok to follow the rules including your own until they break, but then you may need to change them.
Just because something is wrong for you now, doesn’t mean it was always wrong.
Trust your intuition, but know your prejudices.
Avoiding a problem means we can’t see the extent to which it gets worse.
You’re more likely to trip with your eyes closed than you are with your eyes open.
Get in touch with someone you meant to but didn’t.
Respect must be earned, but give people the benefit of the doubt even if they make a mistake or two.
Trust must be earned, but give people the benefit of the doubt even if they don’t trust you first. Just don’t be a fool.
Being a fool is not the same as being a good or generous person. Enablers and victims aren’t part of any solutions.
There is usually an option where everyone wins, yet still we tend to be in it for themselves.
Banking on luck is not a strategy.
There is usually a good reason that things are the way they are now, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t’ a better way.
The people around you pay the price for the choices you make.
Don’t be reluctant to say I don’t know, just be committed to searching for an answer.
Stop looking for reasons to avoid doing what you should be doing.
Never return a food container empty.
Don’t run with the pack if they’re headed off a cliff, no matter how much fun it may seem.
Feeling bad is sometimes a good thing. It’s how we learn not to make the same mistakes.
Accept progress in others even if its baby steps, but don’t always expect it because their priorities are their own.