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Jim Murphy
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May 12 - June 5, 2025
you need to learn how to be fully present in the most intense situations.
redefine success by focusing on the process of daily improvement.
Daily Process Goals Give my best (100% of what I have today). Be present. Be grateful. Focus on my routines and only what I can control.
By giving it your best shot all the time and loving to compete, you start doing your best more of the time, and you become the best more often.
fear is overcome through love, wisdom, and courage.
self-mastery that enables us to be true to ourselves and live with passion, purpose, and poise.
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focus on the process
target the three pillars of Inner Excellence—love, wisdom and courage—as
There is no one more filled with life than someone who is living out a purpose built around sacrificing self to serve others.
The greatest freedom you have is the freedom to choose your thoughts and the greatest power you have is to love unconditionally.
perfect love drives out fear.
until you confront your ego and the fears that follow, you’ll never bring to the world what you are capable of bringing.
Giving up your life brings joy and peace, freedom and connection.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. —Steve Jobs,
the greater the pain of the loss, the greater the gift you were given.
Don’t lose out on beauty and joy because you’re afraid of pain.
Perhaps it’s Western culture’s obsession with happiness that limits our joy and gratitude.
Joy,
deep sense of well-being, freedom and gratitude, independent of circumstances; deeper and broader than any pleasure.
If we can accept that suffering is a part of life, and that we will die, perhaps much sooner than we wish, we can start living and get past our fears.
We can never become who we were born to become when we resist the adversity and challenges necessary for our development.
You can carry your past with you in bitterness, or you can let it go in forgiveness).
Apolo fell in love with the process of improvement.
People often ask me what it takes to do Everest and to be honest it is a lifetime of suffering.
Fear gains power when we try to ignore it.
Addiction—be
the avoidance of (often emotional) pain,
finding a substitute to enable us to avoid our fears.
Stop running from discomfort and emotional pain. When you face it, you’ll find out you’re far stronger than you thought you were.
death camps
those who had a deeper meaning that could not be taken away by brutal conditions. Part of their strength was the desire to respond to their life the best way they were able, which was to be worthy of their sufferings; to accept the pain with honor.
We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life—daily and hourly.
Everything is here to teach me and help me—it’s all working for my good.
The illness in all 12-step groups is self-centeredness.
Having a vision beyond themselves to connect with a higher power and others
covenant based on dying to their old selves, humility, service, and connection to others.
absolute fullness of life.
As you develop self-awareness and pursue love, wisdom and courage, you are better able to see the match between your place in the world and your higher purpose.
If you want to make positive changes that last and live with fullness of life, you must learn to direct how you feel.
your results come from your behaviors, your behaviors come from your feelings, and your feelings come from your thoughts.
either consciously creating your life or you are reacting to it.
The world you see is a projection your brain made based on the information it had.
your experience is your interpretation of the world based on your past and what you’ve come to believe about yourself and the world.
It is extremely important, though, for us to learn how to recognize beliefs that limit us, and strive to stay open to possibility,
The proper emotional response to a problem is 75 percent of the solution.
It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle, Greek philosopher,
“What gets your attention gets you.”
