Michael Davis

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Plenty of people have been buried in coffins of their own making. Before their time too. Because they couldn’t understand that “the way they’d always done things” wasn’t working anymore. Or that “the way they were raised” wasn’t acceptable anymore. We must cultivate the capacity for change, for flexibility and adaptability. Continuously, constantly. Changing the little things day to day, as the Queen did, to preserve and protect the big things. It’s not always fun. It’s not always easy. But what’s the alternative? Dying? Self-control is not a life sentence. It is a way of living. Flexibility ...more
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control (The Stoic Virtues Series)
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