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Your "why" can be as simple as curiosity. “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” — Dorothy Parker quote

There is a natural progression to everything in life: plant, cultivate, harvest. quote

They aren’t bad; they are damaged and they deserve compassion. Note that compassion is an internal process, an understanding of the painful and troubled road trod by another. It is not trying to change or fix that person. - Will Bowen quote

"Because what you need to transform your life is not more information." keyphrase keypoint quote

"Blessed are the idiots, for they are the happiest people on earth." - Laotse quote

Chess prodigy / Tai Chi world champion Josh Waitzkin AM: Unlike 80 percent of people between the ages of 18–44 who check their smartphones within 15 minutes of waking up, Waitzkin goes to a quiet place, does some meditation and grabs his journal. routines1 quote

"When you're at the crossroads, and you're counseled to despair, rise up with courage and see if you can resist it. It's better for you, and it's better for the people around you." quote

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical. quote routines11 p.96

"Everything you want is on the opposite side of fear." Jack Canfield quote

Don't complain about what you allow. quote routines9 p.146

“In fact, the brain starts working less and less. The brain can almost completely shut down. … And this is a real advantage, because it means you have all of this mental activity you can devote to something else.” — Charles Duhigg, Power of Habit routines3 quote

"Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it." - p.70 quote routines9

“Never go to sleep without a request to your subconscious.” — Thomas Edison quote

"the vaguer you are, the less likely you are going to stick to the routine" routines3 quote

One common behavior of serial entrepreneurs is their tendency to act rather than overanalyze. - Saras D. Sarasvathy quote routines4

It's not about feeling. You can't dictate how you feel, no matter how much you tell yourself to feel positive this how to step or that how to step, what if you just don't? quote

It's easy to forget to catch yourself doing something right. quote p.212 routines9

"We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons." -Jim Rohn quote

Don't give into your fears, If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart. - routines11 p.17 quote

"How long will it take? Chances are it will take longer than you want it to— and that when the time arrives, you’ll be astonished at how quick it seemed." quote p.73 routines9

Happiness is something you can do right now, and that leads to getting what you want. "Be happy and the reason will appear." - quote routines9

"Be not afraid of going slowly; be afraid of only standing still." - Chinese Proverb quote routines9 p.205

"it's only when you refuse to manage your own work that control from others becomes a factor at all." - quote routines6 - resistance of yourself is sabotage.

quote John Burroughs - "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." --- there are no such thing as excuses.

HOW REAL SUCCESS IS BUILT: By the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done. quote keypoint keyphrase routines9 p.57

Way of the Peaceful Warrior - "Let it go and let it flow." - quote routines9 p.207

Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not. - Henri-Frederic Amil quote

Become an Imperfectionist // Many of us have the mindset of "either I'm going to do it perfectly or I'm going to wait until I have the time and energy and skill and everything else to do it perfectly. "If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing poorly." - GK Chesterton quote - if we only do the things that we could do perfectly, we wouldn't do much. keypoint routines6 p.191

THE DEFAULT PHILOSOPHY: "What I do right now doesn't really matter." routines9 quote keypoint

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. - Dale Carnegie quote routines11 p.97

Be thankful for the bad things in your life. For they have opened your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before. - Unknown quote

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. - ANNE LAMOTT quote routines9

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C Maxwell routines2 quote

Clearly define what will be done and when. "the vaguer you are, the less likely you are going to stick to the routine" routines3 quote

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be." - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote sidenote - but you really should understand that your brain is hellbent on having you decide to be a lazy, sad, boring person... great way to start the article.

You can look at anyones actions and trace back, through the attitudes behind those actions, to their source: the philosophy behind the attitudes. Show me what a man does and I'll show you his philosophy. routines9 quote

Fears // "To complete all tasks is to die." - Freud quote People fear both failure and completion of projects... they dread the lack of meaning that follows when they have finished something, many feel we need our work around us in order to feel important. routines6 p.191 // Fear of failure and { fear of completion keyphrase } both play a part in starting a new routine.

routines12 quote Facebook post from Stefan Pylarinos

When you face your fears they disappear. keyphrase quote routines10

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run. quote routines9 p.55

"Do the thing, and you shall have the power." - Ralph Waldo Emerson quote

You want big results? Good - then do the little things. Just do them consistently and persistently. p.76 routines9 quote

“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” - Muhammad Ali quote

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.” — James Allen routines1 quote

"The trick is to choose the actions that, when multiplied by this universal amplifier, will yield the result you want. To position your everyday actions so time works for you, and not against you." quote routines9 p.65

Things that, when you look at them as single occurrences, don’t seem like they’d have any impact at all— yet when compounded over time they add up to outrageous success. quote p.58 routines9

There is one quality which one must possess to win, the knowledge of what one wants, and the burning desire to possess it." - quote napoleon hill

Happiness ignores the rules of "cause and effect." - Sean Vosler quote

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. - Margaret Thatcher quote

“If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.” — Jim Rohn quote routines4

"Your life exists only in the moment" - Ekhart Tolle quote

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than anything on which it is poured." - Mark Twain quote

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. - Orian Mountain Dreamer quote

"It’s not easy to accept the fact that people mistreated you and treated you unkindly in the past and that you were deprived of love, happiness and affection. It’s not easy to make peace with your past hurts, surrender and let go of it all, but if you do it, your life will be forever transformed and good things will start happening to you, because of you. Your past doesn’t have to equal your future, unless you want it to." routines11 p.6 quote