My aunt on a grumpy hotel employee:
“Maybe he was just having a bad day. Maybe he had to poop and he couldn’t. You just don’t know.”
My new life philosophy for grumpy people.
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My aunt on a grumpy hotel employee:
“Maybe he was just having a bad day. Maybe he had to poop and he couldn’t. You just don’t know.”
My new life philosophy for grumpy people.
You don’t lose your power; you give your power away.
For what you hold in your hands can be ripped away; but, not what you hold in your heart.
What you keep within the walls of your house can be stolen; but, not what you protect within the walls of your character.
Even what you lock tightly inside the thickest of safes can be repossessed; but, not what you lock tightly inside the safe of your mind.
Within each of us is something great.
A heart, a mind, and a strength of character that has limitless potential. THAT is power. Not what you hold in your hands or protect in your house or stow away deep inside of a safe.
Remember this whenever anybody tries to take your power. They will try to seduce your heart, brainwash your mind, and manipulate your character for their own benefit.
They will try to convince you to voluntarily give your power away. Don’t let them. Protect your power as if it was the most important power you possessed in your life.
Because, quite frankly, it is.
Thoughts are as much outside of your control as they are inside of your control.
It works very much the same as breathing.
When you’re conscious of your mind or breath, you can actively control them.
But, when you’re no longer conscious of them, they carry on without you.
This is why you can’t just demand your mind to start producing better thoughts.
That would be like demanding your lungs to start delivering oxygen better.
You have to improve the thought-producing machine as you would the oxygen-delivering machine(s).
Which doesn’t happen after one exercise session (for either).
It happens after many.
You can always get up after you fall.
And you can always try again if you miss.
But you can’t ever recover hateful words after they’re spoken.
Nor can you undo harmful actions after they’re taken.
Lesson? Move quickly when you’re focused on growth and generosity.
And move slowly when you’re charged by emotion and hate.
Less stuff; more space.
Less clutter; more clarity.
Less noise; more harmony.
Any decision I’ve made with minimalism in mind has almost always been good one.
Most people never talk about pace when it comes to learning.
Most of what I hear is about consuming as much as possible in the shortest amount of time possible (e.g. 2x speed while watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts).
Pace matters just as much in learning as it does in running a marathon.
Move too quickly through the information and you’ll burnout and resent the process.
Move too slowly and you’ll bore yourself to death (and resent the process).
Find your sweet spot and you’ll become a learner for life.
You know what one of your top priorities should be?
Figuring out what your top priorities are.
Imagine if you spent your money without any notion of what needed to be budgeted for bills.
Maybe you even remember living like this at one point in your life.
…Probably not for long though.
Because what usually ends up happening is you spend more than you should’ve and then are left short when it comes time to pay bills.
And not because you didn’t have enough money, but because you didn’t properly prioritize your money.
This is how it works for spending time, too.
Spend/budget time on your top priorities first and then spend what remains how you’d like.
The other way around almost always ends with regret.
P.s. 23 Greg McKeown Quotes from Essentialism and How To Live Better Via Less