The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives.

That’s how important it is to encourage a disciplined mindset towards monitoring our thoughts and making sure we’re planting roses in our gardens of life, rather than toxins.

Credit your successes to god and your failures to yourself. Keeps you in the game longer, otherwise you get a swollen head and rest on your laurels.

Real masters acquire their proficiency not by merely thinking but by repeated failures.

If you're lonely, go out to a social place. If you're broke, start an online business. If you're unhappy, work to build something. This is not the same as "if you're broke, buy a house", because this is stuff you can actually do.

The easiest way to lose half of your friends?

Work on yourself for 6 months.

Don't allow yourself to fall in the repetitive cycles of postponing something.

You will slide deeper and deeper.

If you don't want to work, do the bare minimum you can to maintain the habit of doing some work everyday.

A little work is better than no work.

Knowledge + Skills + Desire = Habits

Stop getting distracted by things that have nothing to do with your goal statement.

Go on a Diet.

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9 HARDCORE LIFE LESSONS 🥷

(Musings for the weekend)

1) Govern yourself

“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded.”

Most people need an external force to motivate them into action, or to keep them in check morally.

Freedom is the will to be responsible to oneself.
It’s imperative that a man learns to be his own leader, to act in accordance with his own beliefs, and to use his own values as a moral compass. Such a man becomes elevated from a yes-man to a Superman.

2) Follow your own path

“You have your way, and I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it doesn’t exist!”

Never let anyone interfere with your life, and you should never interfere with anyone’s life. No one has the license to dictate your life’s trajectory.

3) Seek wisdom over knowledge

“There’s a lot I don’t want to know. Wisdom sets limits, even to knowledge”

Wisdom makes you stoic, but stoicism won’t make you wise. Overconsumption is harmful, whether it’s food or knowledge. Knowing that you know next to nothing is the beginning of wisdom.
Self-introspection through writing or meditation is more beneficial than accumulating information.
The stronger your awareness, the more receptive you become to life’s deepest mysteries. These are called spiritual downloads. Become a person of presence, and you'll naturally be guided by divine intuition & intelligence.


4) Speak your truth

“A truths that are kept silent become poisonous”

Your worldview is as unique as your fingerprints. Be confident enough to share your perspectives honestly, fearlessly & conscientiously. Never smolder your truth to make anyone comfortable. Be authentic in everything you say & do.

5) Break free from herd mentality

“Meaning and morality of one’s life must come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self-expansion by experimenting and living dangerously.”

To find yourself, you need to think for yourself. Intelligent & creative people don't follow society’s rules blindly. If you find yourself thinking like the majority, you're merely imitating.
Seek your own truths.

6) Spend time in solitude:

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody’s cistern. When I am among the many, it feels as if they want to rob me of my soul”
There’s no wisdom without self-awareness, no self-awareness without contemplation, no contemplation without solitude.

A sound mind is forged from silence, in the kiln of solitude.

7) Embrace failure

“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame. How could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”

For the weak, failure is fatal. For the wise, failure is feedback. A fear of failure means you are incapable of handling success, and life doesn’t reward the incompetent.

8) Be a minimalist

Learn to speak less, or increase the value per word spoken.

But minimalism is also applicable in every facet of life:
You don’t need to do everything, focus on the most essential.
You don’t need 1000 friends, get 10 loyal ones.

9) Amor Fati

This is one of my favorite quote from Neitzsche

“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it… but love it.”
Your spiritual maturity is shown by you face & bear misfortunes. Train your spirit not to be distressed by every minor setback. Be optimistic for the best, yet prepared for the worst - for it's hard for a thief to loot a rich man's house who is well prepared in advance.

Stay Inspired Sages 🖤
Marv

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One thing all successful people have in common:

They know when to admit what they don't know.

Your true character is revealed by how you treat people who can't do anything for you.

If you win the morning, you win the day.

Read fewer self-help books.
Take more action.

Knowledge is power but knowledge without action is useless.

The irony of success is that everybody wants to build but nobody wants to do maintenance. Understand- once you reach the top- it’s more important than ever to work twice as hard just to stay there.

Set big goals for yourself and sacrifice everything that doesn’t align with them.

Friends and Partying can always happen later.

What you call “Bad luck” is actually a combination of:

• lack of self-discipline
• not taking any initiatives, and
• too much time making up excuses.

Remember:

Luck is earned.

Start taking action and create your own luck.

A boy becomes a man the day he views his 24 hours as a tool instead of as a way to “pass time”

You don’t have to compete with anyone other than the part of you who’s convinced that you’re not good enough.

You disappoint many people when you become the best version of yourself.