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Is this your last obstacle?
Whether it is a problem at our work or a problem at our home. We go through a lot of problems in our life. Our mind is always passive on the obstacle, honestly, our brain never wants to meet with a new problem again.
Our life is like a stock graph. There’s high and there’s low. In every low, we should keep moving no matter what we lose.
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What is not up to us?
Well, everything else. The weather, the economy, circumstances, other people’s emotions or judgments, disasters.
We always wish we would never struggle, we do our best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn persona...
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Get moving
Our mind is so vulnerable. We are so weak and afraid of changes, we want to live inside a comfort zone forever. Yet we don’t realize every year a tree has to tolerate various seasons from cold to scorching hot to obtain greenery and be able to produce fruits. We expect so many things yet we get s...
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Practice Persistence
Remember and remind yourself of a phrase by Epictetus: “presist and resist”. Persist in your efforts. Resist giving in to distraction, discouragement, or disorder.
Doing new thing invariably means obstacles. A new path is, by definition, uncleared. Only in struggling with the impediments th...
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What is up to us?
- Our emotions
- Our judgments
- Our creativity
- Our attitude
- Our perspective
- Our desires
- Our decisions
- Our determination
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Master your emotions
Over the period of our time, we come over so many things that we get easily attached. Losing our attachements makes us sad but the only way we’ll survive or overcome them is by keeping those emotions in check — if we can keep steady no matter what happens no matter how many external events may fl...
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Live the present moment
The implications of our obstacles are theoretical- they exist in the past and the future. We live in the moment. And the more we embrace that, the easier the obstacle will be to face and move.
No matter what type of storm you have survived, no matter how much you’ve been hurt. No matter how...
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Focus on process
The process is about finishing. Finishing games, Finishing workouts. Finishing blocks. Finishing drives. Finishing reps. Finishing plays. Finishing blocks. Finishing the smallest task you have right in front of you and finishing it well.
Whether it’s pursuing the pinnacle of success in your...
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The Discipline of Perception
In the Panic of 1857, a massive national finanical crisis that originated in Ohio. John D. Rockefeller could have gotten scared. Here was the greatest market depression in history and it hit him just as he was finally getting the hang of things. He could have pullet out and run like others. He co...
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This Could Be The Last Time
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- At random times during the day, imagine that the experience you are having is for the last time.
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Time is subjective
Time passes differently in our mind. When we get a fright, large amounts of adrenaline released in our brain would speed up our internal clock and cause us to experience life as moving slowly.
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One primary key to make things work out successfully is your emotional intelligence. It is the ability to be aware of, express, and control your emotions. There are times when we gave our 100% effort, but still, the goals we plan to achieve didn't go well as we expected.
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