(January 7, 2016 at 7:11 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I started a thread on TTA with the same concept, but not sure how many here post over there. So, here is the same thread for AF. The one on TTA has been going well, it's interesting to see what ideas, and quotes move people.
I'll start...
“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” ~Plato
''If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it enough.'' ~ Einstein
On the serious side, though, one of the more influential things I've ever heard comes from Jocko Willink. He says that we all have two voices in our heads. One voice says to us it's OK, you don't have to get up early today, you don't have to work hard, you can take a break. The other voice asks you "what could you be if you worked as hard as you can, what could you be if you implement some real discipline in your life? I say you turn up the volume on that voice, I say max it out." This has had a profound impact on my life. My Grandmother always used to say "if it's going to be, it's up to me".
He's right. Until we've done everything we can possibly do to succeed, we don't have a right to blame anyone else for our failures, which means we never have the right to blame others for our failures.
Here's another very powerful idea from WillinK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTMDpizis8
"Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind, and a step that travels unlimited roads."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see."