SELF-CARE

The greatest growth is where the greatest fear is." – Jack Canfield

Here are some thoughts that help in our personal development and can give us something to think about when doing some self reflecting. See if any of them resonate with you and let me know if you agree...

1. Over-preparation can be a disease. Time spent preparing is usually better spent getting into the game. Some preparation is good, but most people prepare way too much. Get out there and get your feet wet, then analyze it in your journal. But work on it every day.

2. What you want also wants you. All resistance is in your head. You still have to do physical work and studying and meditating etc, but there is no conflict with the universe if you are working within your true will.

3. Emergence: When you put a complex system together, and it runs, properties emerge that you could never have anticipated. Some processes guarantee results, and it’s impossible to say what those results will be until you run the process, have the adventure, get the experience.

4. If you’re not embarrassing yourself every day at least once you’re not growing or risking or learning.

5. The opposite of courage is conformity.

6. Love your mistakes. Your mistakes are your tuition to mastery.

7. Do what scares you.

8. Intelligence alone will not get you everywhere in this world. We all know smart people who are overweight or lonely or miserable at their job. In fact, I would say that intelligence is far less important than willpower and self-discipline, both of which can be developed with practice and the right guides.

8. Like the universe, you are here to expand.

9. Whatever your individual purpose in life, we are all here to bring more love into the universe.

10. Whether you’re playing tennis or taking a test or going to a job interview or going on a date or fighting a war or climbing a mountain... remember... it’s all inner game. There are no opponents out there. There is no "out there".

11. Four qualities you can always get better at and you can always be working on, wherever you are, whatever you’re doing: self-discipline, honesty, social skills, and organization.

12. If you only do things you have mastered, you will not grow. Allowing yourself to try something new and be an amateur allows your mind to grow.

13. "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men and women with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." – Calvin Coolidge