There is much more to life than what meets the eye. There’s more to each and every one of us than our fearful and judgmental minds want us to believe. routines11 p.101
"You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think." - Walter Anderson routines11 p.121
If you cling to the past and keep using it as an excuse for not moving on with your life, then yes, your future will be very similar to your past. GIVE up the past and allow yourself to be present and engage with day to day life ALONG with having a clear vision of what you want your future to look like; then the future will look nothing like your past. It's your responsibility for better or worse. You have the power to decide. keypoint routines11 p.6
"The one thing you can't take away form me is the way i choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of ones freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance." Viktor Frankl - Holocaust survivor - Mans Search for Meaning routines11 p.93
People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. —STEPHEN HAWKING routines11 p.91
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
The irony is that when you follow your own path, others will respect you more in the long run. Set your own boundaries and show the world what you are truly made of. routines11 p.112
If you are happy and at peace with yourself you will have no interest in blaming, criticizing or complaining. Why? Because you're too busy loving, living, and enjoying life. routines11 p.87
You may have moments in the past that are glorious and happy, and your present life may not match this picture. Instead of being bitter work on using the same mentality, same tools and principles to craft a better life and reinvent yourself. The past is proof that it can be done. routines11 p.10
Beliefs become self fulfilling prophecies (good and bad). They shape our reality, they make us who we are. If we really want to create better life for ourselves we have to make sure the beliefs we hold on to are serving us well and that they are not sabotaging our happiness, well being. routines11 p.35
Excuse poor performance. When something doesn't go as planned, we start to complain placing the blame on someone else. routines11 p.90 - p.91
routines11 Saviuc, Luminita D.. 15 Things You Should Give Up to Be Happy: An Inspiring Guide to Discovering Effortless Joy (p. 4). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. routines11
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. - Henry David Thoreau routines11 p.41
If there is inner turmoil, unease, pain and past wounds that are not yet healed, consciously or unconsciously we will project all those negative thoughts out ourselves, and we will attract into our lives the people, places and experiences that will continue to feed our inner shadows and darkness. routines11 p.99
Correct the thoughts you have and the words you speak to reflect where you want to be. routines11 p.39 keypoint
Pay close attention to your thoughts and slowly replace negative ones with positive ones. Negative thoughts will not go away, but habitually replacing them can start a chain reaction. Change one at a time, change limiting belief at a time. routines11 p.41
Dont do things because the world expects you to do them, but rather because they make sense to you. Do them because something inside of you is asking you to do them. "Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah... it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you." - Rumi routines11 p.115
Complaining is like blaming and criticizing, it removes our joy. Keep s us in a dark place, and it continues to feed on its sales ideas. It's not the outside world that determines how we feel on the inside, but rather how we feel on the inside determines how we perceive the outside world. routines11 p.87
Work on accepting, embracing an forgiving it all, no matter how hard or impossible it may seem. Don't cling. Don't let your past define and limit you. accept your past for what it is; an unchangeable event. routines11 p.10
Relationships aren't about making an unhappy person happy, nor are they about making an unloved person feel loved. They're about sharing love and happiness that is already present within you and with each other, growing, improving and evolving together, both emotionally and spiritually. routines11 p.97
IF we're experiencing seemingly external negative input to our lives often the only reason all those people, things and experiences were present in our lives, and the only reason they had so much power of us, was because we allow it. routines11 p.122
Don't give into your fears, If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart. - routines11 p.17 quote
We can easily become attached to how things SHOULD be. How our happiness should be packaged and delivered, this creates a lot of resistance and unhappiness in our life. routines11 p.10
If you took one-tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out . . . Complaining does not work as a strategy. We all have finite time and energy. Any time we spend whining is unlikely to help us achieve our goals. And it won’t make us happier. - Randy Pausch routines11 p.89
When you have little or no control over your thoughts, when you believe all the fearful, toxic and negative thoughts that run through your mind, you can’t help but point the finger. You can't help but complain about everything and everyone. routines11 p.91
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
Life is a lot like a game. Once you learn the rules of the game, life seems to get a lot easier and you start to have a lot of fun. And the most important rule of the game is to pay close attention to the thoughts that run through your mind. - routines11 p.39
those who mistreated you, for they have showed you how not to live your life. routines11 p.15
The more you complain, the further and further away you move from those around you, but also from your true essence. From the part of you that is always loving and always connected to everything and everyone. routines11 p.91
Pay close attention to your reactions, whenever you catch yourself projecting your own darkness, your own pain and your own suffering onto those around you, with a smile on your face, silently repeat these words to yourself: I am better than this, I can do better than this. routines11 p.103
Inform people of what you will tolerate and what you will not, do not be afraid to "betray" others just so you can honor and be true to yourself. routines11 p.114
Talk to and about others in the way you would have others talk to and about you. Treat the world around you in the same way you would like to be treated: with respect, love, kindness and compassion. routines11 p.105
Mak peace with your own darkness so that you can accept, embrace and make piece with everyone else's darkness. routines11 p.103
The most powerful thing that you can do for your physiology and spirituality is to forgive. However our egos get in the way of embracing forgiveness. We often equate forgiveness with accepting an evil deed or admitting defeat. Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds. routines11 p.10
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. - Helen Keller routines11
Every fault you find in others touches a denied weakness in yourself. If the things you see on the outside bother you, it’s only because they reflect back at you the things that are already within you. routines11 p.101
If you believe you should be treated poorly (unworthy of love, happiness, affection etc) you cant help but expect those around you to do the same. And through your actions and behaviors, you will do what it takes to make them treat you as poorly as you believe you deserve to be treated. routines11 p.122
Complaining not only ruins everybody else’s day, it ruins the complainer’s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. - Dennis Prager routines11 p.87
Fill your heart with gratitude, appreciation and thankfulness. A thankful heart is better than a bitter one. routines11 p.15
The moment you decide that you have had enough of everything, enough of stress and anxiety, enough of anger and resentment, enough of struggle, lack, pain and poverty, enough of tears, heartbreaks, self destructive thoughts, behaviors and relationships and enough of all that is negative and toxic, that will be the moment you will finally be ready to take charge of your life and take the necessary steps toward a better happier life. routines11 p.4
Change the way you look at whatever happens to you and around you. Look for the lessons, look for the meaning. Use every experience to propel yourself farther in life, and not to get stuck and become even more unhappy. routines11 p.93
Define What You Love: Your life won’t get better by itself. Your life will get better when you yourself get better. By giving up complaining, by focusing on that which you love and want to have in your life, and by taking the necessary steps to move yourself in a better direction, you will create a more beautiful and happier life for yourself and those you love. And there will be much less for you to complain about. routines11 p.95
"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