For When Everything Is Burning Quotes

“Motivation isn’t a precursor to success or action; it’s an outcome of them. It’s created mainly through the release of dopamine in your brain, which often happens after realizing an accomplishment or completing a task. In other words, motivation isn’t there to help you get going; it’s there to help you keep going. And if you aren’t experiencing feeling of rewards because you’re depressed or anxious or traumatized, you don’t experience much motivation either.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“You can change the world inside of yourself so that it’s uniquely suited for you to inhabit. Your own precious, unique sanctuary from all of this madness. Whatever you lack from your environment, please give it to yourself. Nobody has empathy for your situation? Give yourself all the compassion you have. Everyone is impatient with you? Practice patience with yourself. People are mad at you? Show yourself tolerance and understanding. Give yourself everything the world failed to provide you with.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“We often want to feel “ready” before trying to make changes in our lives. That’s why we don’t usually change. Readiness is a trap, a convenient and believable excuse to stay stuck in pre-existing patterns.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“If you want to break out of the patterns that keep you stuck, you’ll have to learn to be OK with the people around you being uncomfortable sometimes.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“people hurt you, they leave you with tiny traces of themselves. Reminders, remnants of the pain they created. Lessons they had no business teaching you. Unsolicited and unwanted changes to your existence.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“Instead of “Why am I the way I am?” try asking yourself, “What would help me become more likable to myself?” This adjustment shifts your focus from the past to the present and emphasizes your ability to take action and change whatever it is that you’re unhappy with. It can pull you out of thought patterns that encourage feelings of hopelessness and powerlessness. It helps you remember that no matter where you come from, you’re the author now, and if you don’t like the direction your story is heading in, you can write yourself a new course.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“You can start to live beyond the unrealistic limitations imposed upon you by your mind. Try to trust that you are a little bit beyond where you think you are and that almost nothing is as scary as it feels. Try to live your life from that place, and you might be amazed by what happens.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning

“​Being as small and invisible as possible is highly convenient for everyone around you, so be prepared for them to reinforce this behavior. They’ll praise your strength and your independence. They’ll marvel at how “well” you are handling everything, which they judge based on you not appearing to need any help from them. Most people assess your behaviors primarily from the perspective of how those behaviors impact them, not how they impact you.”
― Scott Eilers, For When Everything Is Burning