Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.
-Epictetus
Do you compare yourself to others? Focus on what is in your control, your own actions and thoughts. Strive for perfection in all that is completely yours.
We should enjoy good fortune while we have it, like the fruits of autumn.
– Epictetus
Do you stop to smell the roses? How do you conscisouly appreciate when things are going well?
But of all motives, none is better adapted to secure influence than love.
– Cicero
What inspires you? Love? Competition? Anger? Love is secure and sustainable.
Learning should never cease.
– Hsun Tzu
What did you learn this week? How will you apply the knowledge next week? Learning and living are synonymous. Learning consciously and applying deliberately can help you flourish.
Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do- now.
-Epictetus
What is the greatest possible version of your future self? Being delusional is good if it encourages actions that map to the vision and does not encourage arrogance.
How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your better self cannot wait any longer.
– Epictetus
What are you waiting to do? Stop waiting. Start small. Start now.
And remember that no one lives more than this infinitesimal point of time, the present; the rest of his days are either lived out or hidden from him.
– Marcus Aurelius
Do you spend your present in your past? In your future? Enjoy and smile at glimpses of your past and future but be sure to stare at the present most frequently. Be when and where you actually are.
Loss is nothing else than change.
– Marcus Aurelius
All is loss. All is opportunity. All is change. Failure and success both involve choice and the crafting of a perspective.
Man is nothing other than his own project. He exists only to the extent that he realizes himself, therefore he is nothing more than the sum of his actions, nothing more than his life.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
What is the final sum of your actions this week? Who did you become? Awareness of actions, especially habits, is key.
The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.
-Seneca
How often are you consciously grateful? Gratitude is much less fragile than desire, and the present is more stable than the future. Act now, inspired by gratitude.
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