🧙♂️ Patterns & Thoughts
by thanatosthewise@ · 55 things on NewTwos
- A random collection of personal thoughts, sourced thoughts, and patterns to better focus my self
- Tiago Forte's To-do Rules
- “Today I will do what others won't, so tomorrow I can do what others can't.” Jerry Rice
- You take on what people do around you
- People are oppressed at all sides. Economically, spiritually
- If we aren't bright and spread hope, the world is dark
- If you're thinking about how you're doing it, you're not doing it
- Stop worrying. Stop fear. Start with love. Stop being afraid. Stop acting out of fear. Stop worrying about what someone may think. You have no idea what someone will or ever does think. Only what they tell you. Start acting out of love. Stay being you to the extreme. Be you. Do you. Do what you believe is right. Whatever that is, do that. I fully, 100%, support it. As long as it is you to your core, we can all accept it. It is what you truly believed unless there is something else you believe. If you don't do that, then again, we have issues. Do you. I hope we all do. And know that we all want the best for you and hope you can continue to be you. Whatever you is. If you are doing something that is wrong, please stop. Please only do what you believe is right. Do the right thing. For yourself, for the world, for your friend, for your enemy. Do the right thing
- "Spectacular achievement is always preceded by spectacular preparation." - Robert H. Schuller
- Whom you meet, how you meet them, and what they think of you afterward should not be left to chance
- "Preparation is—if not the key to genius—then at least the key to sounding like a genius" - Winston Churchill
- Going to a meeting without Googling someone is unacceptable
- Life is experience, experience in relationship. One cannot live in isolation; so life is relationship and relationship is action
- Life is relationship, which is expressed through contact with things, with people, and with ideas
- “Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false conceptions of things that drive them mad.” - Seneca
- your life comes down to your decisions, and if you can change your decisions, you can change everything
- Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for? Or are you tooo busy chasing unimportant things, mimicking the wrong influences, and following disappointing or unfulfilling or nonexistent paths?
- "The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yarning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent. What then can pollute and clog the mind's proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions." - Epictetus
- Choice - to do and think right
- Refusal - of temptation
- Yearning - to be better
- Repulsion - of negativity, of bad influences, of what isn't true
- Preparation - for what lies ahead or whatever may happen
- Purpose - our guiding principle and highest priority
- Assent - to be free of deception about what's inside and outside our control (and be ready to accept the latter
- Above/Below The Line (Above the Line book)
- “Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” Marilyn Monroe
- Action cures fear.
- Determine exactly what you are afraid of and then take action. There is some kind of action for any kind of fear.
- Doing what's right keeps your conscience satisfied and builds self-confidence.
- Use bright, cheerful, favorable words and phrases to describe other people.
- Practice doing what your conscience tells you is right.
- Use big, positive, cheerful words and phrases to describe how you feel.
- Use positive language to encourage others.
- Don't try to control people. Let them do what they want
- No one will understand you, just do you and don't worry about them judging your actions
- Just go to work, but work on what you want to be working on
- Don’t give yourself too much to do.
- Have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs.
- Have a calmness of beauty. Know your beauty, know your greatness, and feel no need to shout it.
- Travel while you still can.
- Have a healthy anticipation for the many interesting experiences in store for yourself.
- Do not show one hint of discomfort or anger.
- The great butlers are great by virtue of their ability to inhabit the professional role and inhabit it to the utmost. They will not be shaken out by external events however surprising or alarming. They wear their professionalism as a decent gentleman. He or she discards it when and only when he or she wills to do so and this will invariably be when he or she is entirely alone.
- Control yourself in moments of strong emotion. Maintain a professional demeanor other than in the least challenging of situations.
- Listen at the door before knocking.
- It is essential to keep one's attention focused on the present; to guard against any complacency creeping in on account of what one may have achieved in the past.
- A worker should never allow himself to be off duty in the presence of others.
- Everything that limits us we have to put aside.
- Your whole body is nothing more than your thought itself, in a form you can see. Break the chains of your thought, and you break the chains of your body, too.
- Freedom is the very nature of being. Whatever stands against that freedom must be set aside, be it ritual, or superstition, or limitation in any form.
- Don’t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you’ll see the way to fly.
- Understand what you really are and practice it.
- You have to practice and see the real gull, the good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves.
- "Whenever someone has done wrong by you, immediately consider what notion of good or evil they had in doing it. For when you see that, you'll feel compassion, instead of astonishment or rage. For you may yourself have the same notions of good or evil, or similar ones, in which case you'll make an allowance for what they've done. But if you no longer hold the same notions, you'll be more readily gracious for their error." - Marcus Aurelius