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If you want to be beautiful don’t make ugly choices.
If you want to be excellent don’t make average choices.
If you want to be a professional don’t make amateur choices.
Identify who you want to become and align your choices accordingly.
Worth noting: intent, goals, aspirations, dreams, desires—all have nothing to do with it.
We are a byproduct of our choices. Nothing more and nothing less.
Work hard to become your best.
Become your best so you can give your best.
Give your best so you can bring out the best in others.
And when you bring out the best in others you’ll want to keep working hard.
Don’t be the person who says yes with their mouth and no with their actions.
We instinctually want what we don’t have.
This is true even for those who already have what we want.
It’s one big circle of everybody wanting everybody else’s stuff.
You want mine; I want yours; we want theirs; they want ours.
Until we decide that what we have is what we want.
It’s only then that we may finally break the vicious circle.
Various thoughts consume various amounts of mental energy.
Deep, intense, painful thoughts consume a lot.
Superficial, light, fleeting thoughts consume a little.
If you don’t deal with the gas-guzzling thoughts, you’ll be left feeling constantly exhausted.
And, maybe better put, if you constantly feel exhausted, maybe it’s precisely because you haven’t dealt with the gas-guzzling thoughts.
No person has the power to satisfy unlimited desire.
Everyone, however, has the power to not desire what they don’t have and thoroughly enjoy what they already do.
Want a shortcut to happiness?
This is it.
Sometimes the best way to learn isn’t through experience, but through other people’s experience.
And it’s not even like those experiences are hard to come by.
They’re abundant. They’re accessible (especially to those reading this). And there are plenty that are completely relevant to you and your path.
Here’s the thing: you could just venture out onto the path and wing it.
Or, you could chat with the guy who’s just coming back and learn a thing or two.
It’s the insider tips that not only keep you on the right path, but get you to the best viewpoints along the way—minus the headaches.