Unfollow Your Passion Quotes

“The key, she says, is to double down on things that feel comfortable and easy, because that is where your genius lives.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Taking a risk, trying something scary or new or something with very high stakes, is not about prioritizing discomfort, however; it’s about commitment—committing to expanding your comfort zone so that you remain inside it.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“The comfort zone is a greenhouse: Warm, sunny, protected from the elements—where living things thrive.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“In short, we’re not only not at our best outside our comfort zones, but we’re unable to access our best there either. You only have so much energy and attention to spend in your waking hours. Are you spending it on the things that you feel you should do or that you’ve been told are good to do—or the things that really, actually matter to you? At what point does seeking out new “challenges” become a convenient way to hide from the actual hard things?”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Take us very far out of our comfort zones, and our brains stop paying attention to anything other than surviving the experience. It’s clear that we learn most in our comfort zones, because that’s where our neural pathways are most concentrated. It’s where we’re most open to possibility, most creative, insightful, and productive. That’s where feedback must meet us—in our moments of flow.”2”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“The reason we “like” an uncomfortable experience in retrospect is because it serves as a clear and salient reminder of just how strong we can be.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Because seeking out discomfort is a pastime of the privileged.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Discomfort isn’t an indicator of bravery; it’s an indicator of… discomfort. In the act of being brave or courageous or ambitious, you will very likely encounter discomfort, but to aim “for” it, in my mind, is to miss the point and the goal. I feel the same way about “doing something every day that scares you.” Being scared every day is a recipe for anxiety, not necessarily personal growth.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“The goal isn’t to get out of your comfort zone; the goal is to expand it.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“It’s worth taking a good hard look at that boundary between what the world wants and you want and, well, making sure it’s intact for one, but also that, regardless of what you decide to do, you know that it was a request you either granted or you didn’t.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“that only you can make. No one can do it for you.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Swallowing is a commitment”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Perhaps the most important thing, the most valuable thing, is to know what you’re swallowing (what you keep swallowing) and why. To recognize that this awareness is the only way to be radically alive, rather than pretend that you can subsist on buttons, because you cannot.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“No one can make you do things; you can only choose to go along.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Being safe and being sovereign were two different things.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“The problem is that we’re so often swallowing things that other people hand us: Their pointy opinions, hardened ideas, homemade beliefs they think would be good for you. But also: Ideas about you and what your life should be that simply aren’t and don’t have to be true.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“people want for us and what we want for ourselves.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“And only by taking a good hard look at what we have swallowed can we begin to find our way out of the sometimes brutal, often well-intentioned, ways of thinking and seeing, and begin to tell the difference between what”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“And it’s time to reinvent how we go about creating lives of meaning and value. That means it may not look like the picture you drew as a kid. But chances are, it’s better than you imagined.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“If you feel you’ve lost the thread on your life or anything resembling motivation, what can help is to actually get lost—and by that I mean immerse yourself in the nonlinear, explore the full dimension of who you are, what you’ve experienced, and all the things you have right in front of you that you might have overlooked.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Above all, you’ll discover why you don’t need to be “fixed” to lead a fulfilling life, and how true freedom comes not when things go your way, but when you let things go.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“What this means is not worrying about the “right” move, but discovering what it means to be a sovereign person, to exercise power over your options, decisions, and desires—without being ruled by any of them. To realize that you don’t need to know exactly where”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“And that’s why the shift you’re dying to make doesn’t start with what passion to chase or what position to apply for; it starts with the recalibration of what freedom really feels like, and a rewiring of the “fears” that the world has told us to have.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“The momentum began the way it always does: By moving. The direction almost didn’t matter.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You

“Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry—all forms of fear—are caused by too much future,” Tolle says. “Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness… are caused by too much past.”
― Terri Trespicio, Unfollow Your Passion: How to Create a Life that Matters to You