"It’s a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at. For instance: If I had spent my twenties playing basketball every single day, or making pastry dough every single day, or studying auto mechanics every single day, I’d probably be pretty good at foul shots and croissants and transmissions by now."
-- Elizabeth Gilbert
"Not making a choice – waiting and delaying, avoiding and denying – is as much a decision as making one. Letting it happen means accepting whatever course is imposed by events or other people – but you’re still making that choice, to let outside influences impose on you. People often say that their fate is sealed, that it’s destiny, luck or karma that dictates what happens to you, or that you had no control over events. Now you are an adult you have far more power than you imagine to steer the course of your life. With that responsibility might come anxiety and guilt. But with it could come fewer regrets."
-- Suzie Hayman
"The most surefire way to make yourself more fragile, to cut your career short, is to be undisciplined about rest and recovery, to push yourself too hard, too fast, to overtrain and to pursue the false economy of overwork. Manage the load."
-- Ryan Holiday
"Harvard researchers tested and retested the memories of people in their fifties and sixties over six years. Socially active people had less than half the memory loss of those who were less engaged. But quality, not quantity, of friendships matters most. If you have as many bad relationships as good ones, the stress of the bad cancels out the restorative powers of the good, suggesting your brain wants you to cull the herd to include only the happy and supportive friendships."
-- Barbara Bradley Hagerty
"Like old maps and old stories, continually doing what you have always done will bring you back to old places, the places you have been before. Repeat after me: “What got me here will not take me one step further. To have more or become more, I will have to do new things.”""
-- Dondi Scumaci
"We must learn to let go of the things that no longer serve us."
-- Antonio Neves
Basically, this quote is about the importance of letting go of things in our lives that no longer serve a purpose or are holding us back in some way. This could be anything from old habits or beliefs that no longer align with who we are or what we want, to toxic relationships or jobs that are causing us more harm than good.
Learning to let go of these things can be difficult, but it's an important part of personal growth and development. By holding onto things that no longer serve us, we're essentially creating unnecessary obstacles for ourselves and preventing ourselves from moving forward in life.
So, the key takeaway from this quote is that we need to be willing to let go of things in our lives that are no longer serving us. This can be a scary and uncomfortable process, but it's important for our own well-being and happiness. By letting go of what no longer serves us, we create space for new opportunities and experiences that are more aligned with who we are and what we want out of life.
"Choose to surround yourself with people who bring joy and growth into your life and are secure enough in themselves to be real and solid whether you shine or struggle."
-- Brendon Burchard
"All the research converges on one unshakable imperative: If you want to live a long and healthy life, invest in friends, particularly at midlife. Every evolutionary instinct cries out for trusted companions, and the more the merrier, because the more friends you have, the healthier, happier, and more mentally acute you will be, now and in your later years. We are wired for friends."
-- Barbara Bradley Hagerty
"Living with intention requires that we pay close attention to the choices we make and where those choices take us. Where you are standing now in every area of your life is a direct reflection of the choices you have made—by design or by default. In this context, a nonaction is an action. No decision really is a decision."
-- Dondi Scumaci
"“A thousand days of training to develop,” Musashi would write, “ten thousand days of training to polish.” For a samurai, there was no such thing as pretty good. If a pretty good swordsman met a better fighter . . . he would die. It’s like the basketball Hall of Famer Bill Bradley’s observation: When you are not practicing, refining, working—somewhere, someone else is . . . and when you meet them, they will beat you."
-- Ryan Holiday
