If you work hard, the safe road might get you a house behind a white picket fence and some kids and a dog and a nice sofa and the very latest in kitchen appliances.
Which is fine, actually. So it’s unfair to call this a toxic habit.
The sad thing is that our worries about these people (who are thinking far more about themselves than they are about us) stop us from doing cool, brave things.
Or they make us lie awake all night staring at the ceiling fretting about what we’ve said or done.
We all have fears, we all have limitations. And that is okay. What is not okay is living inside them.
We get our biggest highs in those moments when we bust through a fear. When we do something we never dreamed we could do — or be. Acknowledge your limitations, offe...
Napoleon Hill warned of the folly of sex obsession.
Sex is a healthy, fun, natural part of human existence, but when it takes over your mind as well as your body — well, just know you’re not going to be good for much else.
True, comparing yourself with others will make you miserable.
But it’s actually really hard to run your own race because there’s always someone else in your lane with a little more talent and their shoes already laced up.
Everything’s been done before. Trying to come up with “all new” concepts and be wholly original is exhausting.
So just take something that already exists in the world and put your own spin on it. As creative guru Austin Kleon so aptly puts it: Steal like an artist.