Most people have a one (or a lot of) songs that when they hear them, the song automatically takes you back to some time. And most times, that time it takes you back to a time when things were amazing, or scary, or unusual or completely not what you had …
Why you gonna let someone else mess up how you feel about yourself? A huge part of American football is communication. But still Derrick Coleman not only won a scholarship to play football at UCLA, but he made it to the NFL. And he’s part of one of the main …
There is no such thing as “Can’t” (other than ‘I can’t live without water/oxygen etc.’, and those laws of physics which are limiting, e.g. I can’t fly to South East Asia from Australia just by flapping my arms’)*. But for everything else, there’s no can’t, only ‘Don’t’. If you find …
After making a significant decision where a sacrifice was made, there’s this tendency for some (and I’ve done this too) to focus on what I’ve lost, as opposed to what’s been gained. Before any major (or minor) decision, think about what will be added to your life, not what you’re …
(translation): There is no ‘Can’ or ‘Can’t’, just ‘Do’ or ‘Don’t’. If you ever think to yourself ‘I can’t do it’, try this as the next thought in your brain region: ‘Bullshit. Why not?’ If it’s been done before by anyone who is also a human person like you, it can …
If you can’t have your cake and eat it too, instead of despairing and thinking ‘Fuck…If only [1 of the things you love here] wasn’t here/wasn’t happening/didn’t exist.’, is it possible to think ‘Excellent. A chance to see how tough I am.’? This is something I may be facing soon. …
There’s no degrees of contentment –you either have it or you don’t. But what if there was also no degree of ‘difficult’. Things can always get more difficult. If you’re worried about how you’re going to do something hard, or are faced with a tough challenge, imagine it was even harder, …
This guy probably got told ‘You won’t be able to do it’ or heard people say ‘No way. It’s impossible’: Pretty much anything is possible. Well, if you jump off the top of your roof shouting “I CAN FLY I CAN FLY’, that’s one of the things that isn’t, but for …
If you find yourself thinking, ‘This is really hard…’ it’s a sign that you’re probably on the right track. Any progress, any learning, growth, improvement or mastery comes not as a result of comfort and ease, but difficulty, challenge and even (and sometimes especially) hardship. As long as you know how you …
If someone responds to the question, ‘Why do you want to do that?’ with: ‘To challenge myself’, what does that actually mean? One of my mentors a student to task over exactly that and then followed up asking her, ‘Is the point of challenging yourself just to challenge yourself?’ The power …
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