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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
All pain is real.
Because pain is subjective and is only really experienced by the experiencer.
This is why no one can or should tell you how to feel about your pain.
Only you can be the judge of that.
That said, the intensity of your pain is also only yours to manage.
So, here’s one handy trick that can help deplete pain of its power: stop trying to prove how badly you’ve been hurt.
You have nothing to prove.
And even your best attempts to prove your pain only end up intensifying it.
Better would be to treat pain like the signal it is and respond to that signal deliberately and with compassion.
Much better than catastrophizing it just so that people might believe you that it’s there.
You can’t just give love once and expect it to last.
…Or twice, or three times, or ten.
Love needs to be regularly renewed.
…Twice, three times, ten times per day!
…Or week or whatever works for you and yours.
But it will only last so long as it is renewed.
As soon as you stop renewing your love, like Netflix, it’ll only be a matter of time before it expires.
From where do you allocate extra time when you get really busy?
From:
Or:
Here’s the thing: Certain priorities should never be touched.
If they are, you’re too busy.
Or, hate to break it to you, they aren’t (really) a priority.
Period.