I thought myself sufficiently shrewd to make whatever decisions I wanted to make, and then to be able to sufficiently steer those decisions away from the rather dark and nasty places they would naturally take me. And I stand oddly perplexed that suddenly everything around me is dark and nasty.
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When you confront, you get goals faster.
It is not important who the leader is. Its important where they lead you to.
And we have the tools. We have the tools to choose. They are free, and within you now! It is the tool of conscious thought. Imagine your life and how it could be better if you used the power of conscious thought effectively?
...adopt the "practice makes progress" approach
Without goals we are nothing more than drifters, drifting where?
Boys keep working over your goals these girls ain't going anywhere.
Too much hurry will bury your goals. Too much haste will make you waste. Too quick race will cripple your pace. Be patient.
4 Don__ Die_ Principles:_ Change your awareness and your perspective changes._ You teach what you need to learn._ You can make excuses or you can achieve your goals, but you cannot do both._ Experience is what you get when you don__ get what you want.
Stop looking for a partner. Focus on your goals and rebuilding your life. The right person will eventually find their way to you.
Sometimes in life, you have to take difficult steps and tough decisions, in order to achieve something bigger.
It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.
Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.
Progress is the only road going there.
To achieve in life is A hard story, you're starting to get the picture. It's hard work, and this is just the beginning.
May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed...
Imagine a tiny ant on the back of a massive African elephant. No matter how diligently that ant marches east, if the elephant he sits upon travels in the opposite direction, the ant will end up farther west than his starting point. Similarly, we will find ourselves receding from our goals if our conscious and subconscious minds are not aligned.
The secret to living your life to its potential is to value the important stuff above your own comfort. Therefore, the critical first step to executing well is creating and maintaining a compelling vision of the future that you want even more than you desire your own short-term comfort, and then aligning your shorter term goals and plans, with that long-term vision.