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December 27, 2018 - July 24, 2019
My motivation is to help people challenge authority and live unconventional, remarkable lives. The mission is to support a full-scale revolution with a simple underlying message: You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.
“being practical” can sometimes be code language used by critics to marginalize your choices of freedom.
To break out of the sleepwalking pattern, we have to define what we want and then find a way to make it happen.
“Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.”
begin to make plans to adjust your life to get closer to the perfect day you’ve imagined for yourself.
help: fast-forward in your mind a long time (hopefully) to your death-bed. When the time comes to say goodbye, what memories do you want to have? What would you regret if you hadn’t done it?
1 Year Goals, 5 Year Goals, Lifetime Goals
These questions may help: • What needs can you meet? • Who looks to you as a leader? • What bothers you about the world? • How can you make things better?
If you’re up for the commitment, victory is on your side in the long run. You can create the life you want, you can make the world a better place at the same time, and you can have it all. Just be prepared to work for it.
fear. Because our fears and insecurities are often illogical, it helps to break them down to the most basic level.
Apply the “no regrets” mind-set. After acknowledging fear, you then need to change your mind-set and prepare for making a change.
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence
If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. —DALE CARNEGIE
Assuming you know what you want and are just having trouble seeing it through, one thing that helps is to force the active decision. This is where you stop wavering and decide one way or the other if you’re going to take the leap.
“People don’t want you to be an actor. They want you to be yourself.”
Understanding that few opportunities are truly democratic is the first step toward successfully challenging authority.
Only about 80 percent of my experience in higher
education
was a waste of time; the other 20 percent...
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If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. —ROBERT FRITZ
The key is to avoid doing things out of habit or because I’m not brave enough to overcome my fear of change
I originally defined this as having enough wealth to be able to live off the interest without doing any other work in exchange for money.
After eliminating the unnecessary, start opening up to everything you’ve always wanted to do. It’s not a paradox; it’s a life of abundance.
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. —ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
there is almost always an alternative way to accomplish something; you should do what you want instead of what others expect; and the goal is to achieve as much convergence as possible around everything you are passionate about.
“What do you really want to get out of life?” and “What can you offer the world that no one else can?”
I definitely need to try something like this. I love to write, I’m a good writer, and I’ll only get better if I practice.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. —SIR CECIL BEATON
It’s far easier to be a cynic than a believer. Whatever you decide, don’t do that. Stand for something! Come join the living world. The rest of us are waiting.
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