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March 20 - March 21, 2020
Step 1: Identify the areas of your life where you want to create set points.
Step 2: Determine your set points.
Step 4: Turn up the heat—in a good way.
we do all kinds of things in the morning to clean and prepare our bodies for the day. We brush, shower, spray on cologne, and dress well, all to keep our physical bodies fresh and clean. Yet billions of us wake up each morning feeling worry, stress, anxiety, and fear and don’t do anything about it. We assume this is normal, but it’s not.
success, which consists of four pillars: well-being, wisdom, wonder, and giving.
When you embrace the journey of personal growth you will find that the art of living seems to shift. Toil and pain seems to slow down, while magic and synchronicity seems to speed up.
When you’re happy in the present moment and pulled forward by a vision for the future, your inner and outer worlds mesh seamlessly.
Have big goals—but don’t tie your happiness to your goals. You must be happy before you attain them.
If you can choose any model of reality you want and accept it as true—why not choose a model that suggests that you can literally bend reality to your wishes?
The universe] sent you nothing but angels.”
I believe that the only currency that truly matters in an uncertain world is the kindness and generosity passed from one human being to another.
“How is it possible to be happy when seeing so much misery and tragedy every day?” The Dalai Lama’s answer was actually a question, and it was simply this: “But who can you help if you’re unhappy?”
You can be surrounded by pain. You can be empathetic and feel for others, but ultimately the discipline of bliss allows you to help spread more bliss in the world. That is the highest expression of the extraordinary life.
Forget the money, because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living—that is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.
End goals are about experiencing love, traveling around the world being truly happy, contributing to the planet because doing so gives you meaning, and learning a new skill for the pure joy of it.
Means goals are the things that society tells us we need to have in place to get to happiness.
Joe Vitale: “A good goal should scare you a little and excite you a lot.”
THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS 1. What experiences do you want to have in this lifetime? 2. How do you want to grow? 3. How do you want to contribute?
To be extraordinary is to be connected to this spiritual aspect of yourself and to feel it move you to create, change, invent, and rattle the world.
I think there are many ways to be spiritual, and one of them is to be spirited—filled with forward-looking energy and the courage to challenge the status quo, like the scientists, entrepreneurs, and titans who are working on projects to push humanity forward.
There’s nobody alive who is not breathing.
Education—the transmission of knowledge, enrichment, and power from one person to another—is a particular expression of love that I find compelling and beautiful.
“Live life as though everything is rigged in your favor.”
It’s like nature is just trying to create all the time, and it’s looking for people who are awake. It’s looking for people who are willing to raise their hands and bring something from the unmanifest into the manifest.
