“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Leo Buscaglia
“Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.”
Swedish Proverb
Worry.
It starts with a nagging thought.
That creates another few thoughts.
And before you know it there is a storm brewing in your mind, making you think irrationally and zapping your mental and physical energy.
Your old friend is back, creating chaos within.
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
Eleanor Roosevelt was not only the First Lady and wife of U.S president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In many ways she was a pioneer.
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.”
Brian Tracy
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.”
John Augustus Shedd
People often get stuck in mostly discussing or reading about making positive changes. Instead of spending that time and effort on actually making the changes they want in life.
Why?
One big reason in my experience is simply that it is uncomfortable to step outside of your own comfort zone.
So what can you do about it?
“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
Today I’d just like to quickly share something that has helped me to feel a whole lot better about myself. And it does not only benefit me.
It is a very simple habit.
It is the habit of being kind to the people in your life.
How can you use it?
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”
Olin Miller
10 years ago I was a big slacker. I procrastinated most of the time and had very few helpful habits for when I actually did some work.
These days things are a different. I usually get more done in a day than I used to get done in a week back then.
So today I would like to share 23 habits that have helped me – and still help me – to make such a big shift in my own life over the past years.
Today I would like to simply and quickly share one of my favorite thoughts on self-improvement.
This short thought comes from Nathaniel Branden’s book The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem and it simply goes like this:
“No one is coming”.
Short. But it has been a powerful and sobering reminder for me.
Because yes, you can look for the next big thing that will fix you.
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