Category: Motivation Monday
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Bruce Lee’s “Die to Yesterday” Quote and Why Most People Never Let Go
“To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the ‘old’, you derive security; from the ‘new’, you gain the flow.” — Bruce Lee Most of us stay attached to the old version of ourselves because it’s familiar, it’s worked, and it’s kept us safe. We can’t build the new version…
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Master of His Soul
“A man likes to believe he is master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.” — Carl Jung We…
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He Will Win Who Knows When to Fight
“He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.” — Sun Tzu When I first read this, it made sense. Choose your battles, know what’s worth fighting for and what isn’t. Pretty straightforward, and something most of us already understand. But the more I thought about it, the more I recognized…
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Worrying and Reflecting Aren’t the Same
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — Author unknown, often attributed to Albert Einstein We’ve all heard it, said it mid vent, nodded at it, and then gone right back to whatever we were doing. The quote about repeating patterns has become its own…
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Man Cannot Stand a Meaningless Life
Good morning UG, normally I share just one quote on Motivation Mondays, but while reading through some of Carl Jung’s work, I came across three statements that seemed to speak to the same idea. These aren’t three quotes from the same passage, they’re separate statements, but when you put them side by side, they seem…
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Grow Quietly, Build Consistently
“A weak person is found in the crowd, seeking validation and attention. A strong person is often found alone, seeking peace and quietly building themselves.” — Author unknown I don’t know who said it, but the principle behind it is one I believe in. There comes a point when we realize that our own opinion…
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Stop Arguing With the Mirror
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.”-From D. E. Tarver, interpreting Miyamoto Musashi’s life and work. This is one of the underlying themes running through a lot of our transformations, the version of us that got us…
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What Dies Inside Us While We Live
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.” — Attributed to Norman Cousins Here’s the thing about our dreams. They don’t usually die all at once, they just kind of slowly fade. We finish school, get the job, get married, have a kid or…
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Character Is Simply Habit Long Continued
“Character is simply habit long continued.” — Plutarch Look back at who first showed up, then at who’s here now. The difference wasn’t motivation. It was the habits we’ve repeated long enough that they’ve now become part of who we are. Let’s not break the chain. #MotivationMonday
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The Danger of Aiming Too Low
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.” — Author unknown, often attributed to Michelangelo The biggest danger isn’t aiming too high and missing. It’s aiming too low and succeeding. Sometimes the goals we…
