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by
Robin Sharma
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October 17 - November 15, 2018
You have decided to live your life by choice rather than by chance, by design rather than by default.
if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
“Be the change that you wish to see most in your world.”
“Let us be kinder to one another.”
A meaningful life is made up of a series of daily acts of decency and kindness, which, ironically, add up to something truly great over the course of a lifetime.
Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.
The golden thread of a highly successful and meaningful life is self-discipline. Discipline allows you to do all those things you know in your heart you should do but never feel like doing. Without self-discipline, you will not set clear goals, manage your time effectively, treat people well, persist through the tough times, care for your health or think positive thoughts.
the tougher you are on yourself, the easier life will be on you.
The quality of your life ultimately is shaped by the quality of your choices and decisions,
When you consistently flex your willpower by making those choices that you know are the right ones (rather than the easy ones), you take back control of your life.
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do,”
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.”
your personal journal gives you a private place to flex your imagination and define your dreams.
writing in a private journal for as little time as 15 minutes a day can improve health, functioning of your immune system and your overall attitude.
if your life is worth thinking about, it is worth writing about.
Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions.
Life’s greatest setbacks reveal life’s biggest opportunities.
“There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.”
success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as
by the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.”
“if your priorities don’t get scheduled into your planner, other people’s priorities will get put into your planner.” The solution is to be clear about your life’s highest objectives and then to learn to say no with grace.
“It is concentration on the essentials,”
Stress itself is not a bad thing. It can often help us perform at our best, expand beyond our limits and achieve things that would otherwise astonish us.
“The hand that gives is the hand that gathers.”
‘the person who tries to do everything ultimately achieves nothing.’
“The person who chases two rabbits catches neither,”
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers. I
The smallest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions. 33.
if you don’t act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.
“The Tragedy of life is not death, but what we let die inside of us while we live.”
“The weakest among us has a gift, however seemingly trivial, which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.”
You are only as rich, whether materially or spiritually, as your dreams.
“Don’t bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
“We first make our habits and then our habits make us,”
“I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.”
time to live life greatly is not tomorrow but today.”
you run your own race. Stop bending to the demands of social pressure at the expense of your uniqueness.
The past is gone, the future is but a figment, so this day is really all you can own. Invest it wisely.
(we often use sleep as an escape from reality during difficult times).
fatigue is often a mental creation that stems from doing things you do not like to do.
“fake it till you make it.”
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
Getting the Most Out of Life
A great quote contains a wealth of wisdom in a single line.”
We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, more possessions but less happiness, fuller minds but emptier lives.
happiness is not a place you reach but a state you create.
purpose of life is a life of purpose. As this is the last of the life lessons it is my privilege to share with you in this book, I wish you a great life filled with wisdom, happiness and fulfillment.
