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“Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.”
When you put things off, those things don’t get any easier. In fact, it makes things that are normally easy to do more difficult. There’s that added element of time being more limited. This increases anxiety as well as the likelihood of error. While procrastination makes things that are normally…
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“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future.”
“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.”
Life is made up of time. And as this quote by Bruce Lee suggests, what we make of our time makes up our life. It’s that simple. This fact shouldn’t give us anxiety or guilt. Rather, it should motivate and encourage us. It means that turning our life around doesn’t…
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“Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy. There has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. “
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
“Successful people have fear, successful people have doubts, and successful people have worries. They just don’t let these feelings stop them.”
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“The future is always beginning now.”
Thinking about the future can elicit hope for better days to come. It can also make us think of things only happening until much time has passed. Meanwhile, it can make us feel as if we have plenty of time to do what we need and want to do. As…
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“When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.”
This quote comes from the book, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer. It reminds us to think more critically about exactly how we hope to improve in the areas we want to improve in. For illustration, let’s say you hope to improve your…
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“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
If we list all the things that matter most in life besides food, clothing, and shelter, they’re usually not material. They’re also usually priceless. Maybe the things at the top of our list include our family, faith, or mental and physical well-being. They’re things that are frankly difficult to live…
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“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
This quote, by Baltasar Gracian, gives us a different perspective of time. It’s the only thing we all really have. Even someone with absolutely nothing has it. But when it comes to free time, we don’t all have the same amount. And what we physically possess isn’t always a predictor…
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“If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things”
Many of us want to achieve and experience big things. However, we often overlook a key ingredient: the culmination of small things needed to get to the big thing. This quote, by Richard Branson, reminds us that there’s no way we’ll have time for the big things if we don’t…
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“Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.”
This Too Shall Pass
“Be grateful for what you already have while you pursue your goals. If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, what makes you think you would be happy with more.”
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
Often, it seems there’s never enough hours in the day or that several years go by before we know it. This quote, by Michael Altshuler, helps us come to terms with the fact that time tends to fly by. It marches on no matter what we do, and there’s no…
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“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”
“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“Focus on being productive instead of busy.”
Society tends to give someone who spends most of their day busy more respect than someone spending most of it relaxing. We tend to perceive busyness as a good thing, while productivity takes a backseat. This quote by The Four Hour Work-Week author, Timothy Ferriss, reminds us to refocus our…
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“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
This quote, by Stephen Covey, is about not being so focused on a schedule or to-do list. Instead, it encourages us to reflect on what is on it. Are the things on it all that important? Or should we be prioritizing other things? Are those other priorities being neglected? Yes,…
