@RobertGreene: Accept the fact that nothing is certain, and keep yourself adaptable and on the move.
Mind lives on change. If your vision of yourself does not evolve and you don't challenge yourself, stagnation and inertia will catch up to you,
1. The moment you define yourself too rigidly, you’re sliding towards irrelevance already.
To create an endless source of energy and power, challenge yourself to level up always.
Even the best routine and habit is something you vary and improve continually, not something to seek safety in.
Having a mission in life is not enough to lead yourself.
Accept from the beginning that you'll be chasing a moving target, and push it forward eagerly.
To lead yourself, move the target yourself.
2. Judge people in the moment by what they do, judge people in the future by the evolution of their objectives.
If your aspirations aren't growing, you aren't growing. The nature of Mind is always to become more.
3. Rigidity in your ways and interests isolates you socially and shuts off opportunity. Lack of openness to experience and challenge is self-fulfilling and self-suffocating.
Take risks with untested ideas or you will never progress. No learning happens until you endure it. Every action is new until you take it.
4. Be afraid of stopping more than anything else. When you freeze with fear, remember these words and you'll know what to do.
5. Young people struggle to define themselves, old people who never grew up struggle to forget how circumstances defined them.
6. If you don't accept that Mind is infinite and forever-changing, you're rejecting your own power.
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Dokkōdō, loosely translated as "The Way of Walking Alone", is the last work of Miyamoto Musashi.
He composed it on occasion of giving away his possessions in preparation for death in 1645.
Musashi dedicated the 21 principles of Dokkōdō as a last gift to his favorite student – an ultimate Integration of Zen and the Way of the Warrior.
The title itself is suggestive like a Zen koan. It hints that the path of Liberation is one you can tread only on your own.
1. Accept everything just the way it is.
Acceptance does not mean giving up and rolling over in a ditch. It asks us to meet everything without attaching and identifying – without aversion or clinging.
22 TIME-TESTED TECHNIQUES TO MAKE *GOOD* WRITING A CONSISTENT HABIT
What I have to share here is harsh.
Have no illusions about it.
The writing gods don’t care for prayers – they want sacrifice.
I didn’t come up with all these techniques yesterday. Many of them come from world-class writers and credit goes to them. But they all get at the same thing – conditioning your mind to produce great writing on command.
And they WORK when you DO the work.
If you’re serious about writing or your other creative work of choice, apply these techniques in combination for maximum effect. Implement them one at a time to make habituation easier, but stacking them is what will make you unstoppable.
Most people don't realize yet what's happening out there. Here's a list of US retail chains that have announced store closures – 8,400 so far this year.
AC Moore: 145 stores
Art Van Furniture: 190 stores
AT&T: 250 stores
Bath & Body Works: 50 stores
Bed Bath & Beyond: 44 stores
Bloomingdale's: 1 store
Bose: 11 stores
Chico: 100 stores (estimated)
Children's Place: 200 stores
Christopher Banks: 30-40 stores
Chuck E Cheese: 54 U.S. stores (bankruptcy)
CVS Pharmacy: 22 stores
Destination Maternity: 90 stores (bankruptcy)