Good advice may be worth paying for, but most advice isn’t. (That’s why it is so abundant and free.) What we need isn’t more advice; what we need is action. Deep down, we know what it is we want to do. And the temptation is to find someone to help us do it. In the end, we must decide. If not, someone else will.
Its tempting to read it enough you might actually believe it. But the truth is, the sky isn’t falling.
The world is indeed a dangerous place. But it has gotten better. It still is a dangerous place with plenty of room for improvement.
Learning to connect one ski turn takes time.
Then you connect two or three, then four and five, and so on.
Until one day, you learned to ski. No one gave you a prize or a certification. And in that moment, it is so clear:
We are designed not to do things because of silly trinkets but because of the joy it brings to do something that’s hard.
It isn’t just with skiing, either. You can do this in every facet of your life.
It isn’t when things are going well, because that’s easy to attribute to one’s own efforts. We are so easily seduced by this.
The hardest part is assessing when things are broken. Far too often, we want to blame ourselves. But this isn’t the whole picture. Perhaps the effort is there but isn’t in the right place. Or you have it in the right direction. It just isn’t going to work.
We are usually not on our own time but someone else’s. It takes tremendous courage to say, “Yes, this isn’t working. But I’m doing everything I can to turn it around.”
We are not good at giving credit to ourselves when things fall apart.
We often associate risk with our actions, the consequences of going left or right.
But what we get way wrong is assessing the cost of doing nothing.
Every choice has consequences, even when we choose to sit things out.
If the constant in life is change…
Then life must be a reflection of it.
It is our perception of this change that counts.
Not an objective world but a preveived world.
It is foolish to lie to yourself…
But what makes someone a fool is when they begin to believe them.
In basketball, there are buried players who come off the bench, come in, and just go. They make it because of their motor. Every possession matters because it does. They won’t be getting the reps and opportunities as starters.
If you’re starting, you forget this mentality cause you can go to the next one. However, even with starters, you never know when this will be your last.
The thing about ideals is that we can have them but not live a life that follows them.
That’s what makes them ideals. They are not convenient and give humans something to strive for.
Everyone has ideals. Not everyone has the constitution to follow them.
Emotions can be written down on a piece of paper. It can make sense logically what to do.
However, emotions are not a set of instructions that need to be simply followed.
They are much more complicated, which makes them difficult to understand.
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