Be water, be open, become more, by Bruce Lee, lover of wisdom.
Briefest Precis.
- Don’t waste time, time is what life is made up of. Aristotle – “We live in deeds, not years; In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.” What can you stop doing to stop wasting time? Likely tech distraction?
- “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” I can read First Aid instructions on the box, but will need to practice & do in order to be a First Aider. If you know but do not do, you may as well not know, therefore removing the burden of expectation from yourself.
- Do this stuff daily, that self control will spill over into other areas of our lives.
- Let the Spirit Within You Rise Up. “Live content with small means; seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion. Be worthy, not respectable, wealthy, not rich; study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never. In a word, let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common.”
- Challenge & difficulty is what forges us. It feels shitty at the time, but you may as well embrace it & look for the learning to be had, cos shits gonna happen anyway, as you are alive.
- Shakespeare “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Reality exists only in your head, so you may as well see Stepping Stones rather than Stumbling Blocks.
- Victor Frankl – Stimulus – YOU – Response. Be response-able. Not just a knee jerk!
- “There is no such thing as defeat until you admit so yourself, but not until then!” Not defeat, just learning.
- Read, or listen. LOTS. Read to feed the mind. Filter everything thru your gut instinct. Assimilate & do what serves. You are an experiment of One, forget the consensus, normal makes you fat, lazy & depressed.
- Aim for perfection, knowing full well you will never achieve it. Be an Optimalist, not a Perfectionist.
- How can I be me? Be the best you, not the second best someone else.
- The only real help is Self Help. Nobody is coming to save you. Be the Hero of your story. “We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.” Earl Nightingale.