Being criticized can be a tough thing to handle (even though it sometimes can be very useful to help you grow or improve something you do).
So this week I’d like to share 60 of my favorite timeless thoughts from the past 2500 years about how to not only receive criticism but also what to think about once or twice before deciding to give it.
“How soon ‘not now’ becomes ‘never’.” Martin Luther
When I was younger, in my early twenties, I was often lazy.
Too often actually.
And so I didn’t:
Get my school work done in a good way and had to cram and stress out a few days before an exam.
Work out or cook healthy food because it felt too hard and I gained 30+ pounds of weight while my fitness levels went down.
Take care of my personal growth and dreams but mostly just let all that slide to “someday” as those things remained daydreams.
10+ years later I still love lazying around and not doing much at all.
But I’ve also learned how to keep that lazy time to a moderate and healthy amount instead of letting it hold me back and stuck in the same place of excuses for years like it used to.
Bonus: Download a free step-by-step checklist that will show you how to stop being so lazy (including 2 bonus steps that are not in this post). It’s easy to save as a PDF or print out for whenever you need it during your day or week.
In this post I’d like to share the best friendship quotes I’ve found in the past 10+ years.
Because few things have such a huge impact on happiness and the enjoyment, depth and plain fun of life as the friendships we have.
It could be the friendships with our partners, family members, co-workers and the people we have known for a few years now or since we were kids.
Or even with people we have never even met at the other side of the world or the pets we love.
So I’d like to start this year by looking back and share some of the best advice on this topic from the people who have walked this earth over the past hundreds and thousands of years.
This is 172 thought-provoking, beautiful, sometimes poignant and sometimes funny quotes on friendship.
“The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.”
“Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.”
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
One of the my favorite people of all time to find timeless tips from must be the always witty and perceptive Mark Twain.
Twain was an American lecturer, satirist, humorist and the author of classic books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
And this week I’d like to share 7 of my favorite tips from him for living both a simpler life but also a more successful one.
I hope you’ll find these tips and strategies as helpful as I’ve found them to be over the years.
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”
“Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.”
Back in the old days, when movies were shot in black and white – and later on too – Audrey Hepburn was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood.
Not only did she win an Oscar for “Roman Holiday”, she was also an ambassador for UNICEF and she’s a timeless fashion icon.
This week I’d like to share three of my favorite tips from Hepburn for living a happy life.
“Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that separate them.”
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
About 2500 years ago there lived a man called Confucius.
He was a Chinese philosopher and thinker and has had a big influence on life and thought systems in countries like China, Korea and Japan for a long, long time. His teachings became what we call Confucianism.
And today I’d like to share 7 of my favorite happiness tips from him.
