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June 9 - December 12, 2021
Dreaming the dream was a whole lot easier than living the dream.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world. Joel A. Barker
For years, I listened to society and family and friends who all (never actually) said that I should go down a different path, a more logical, rational, and safe path. That my dream was more of a hobby, something to do later in life, more of, well, a dream.
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When will the day come when the angel on your shoulder walks across your neck to the devil on the other and they make a deal to release your true self that they have locked up deep within the dungeon of your soul?”
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T. S. Eliot
Day Zero is an idea, a thought, a potential. The problem is that most of us live in Day Zero.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
The only failure I now know is the failure to give something a shot. The failure to start, to launch, to take a step.
Fail and fail often. Fail small and keep at it. Soon it will simply be a part of your day.
no longer see possible and impossible as black and white, yes or no, zeros and ones. There is a third path. A method, a mindset, that finds another way around impossible and yet slides by the possible.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Francis of Assisi
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Repossible is a different perspective from where you see different challenges and even different goals.
Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success. Eckhart Tolle
The future you depends on the present you.
You just spent one hour and eleven minutes of your life not doing the thing and then you do the thing and it took less than two minutes to finish
life just kept going as it had been going because no one was doing anything to change it.
when you get it done, you no longer spend any energy on it.
You choose to whine or you choose to improve.
Motivation is what you do until you are inspired.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Paulo Coelho
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. John D. Rockefeller
Do you want to get better than the next guy or do you want to get better?
Do you want to be better because you enjoy doing it or do you want to be better for an "external" reason (e.g. praise, money, fame, competition)?
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle
Bite-size change that you create Every Single Day is truckloads more powerful than anything you might dream up every other Thursday evening.
When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life. Wayne Dyer
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. Lucille Ball
What’s between the you of the past and the you of today and the you of the future?
Why spend another day being the person you don’t really want to be?
A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell
Freedom from the nagging, harassing, gnawing reminder that Every Single Day you weren’t being who you knew yourself to be.
