The Emotion Machine

Face your fears and you often find they aren’t nearly as scary as your mind makes them out to be.

Success in any area of life never happens in a complete vacuum. Often it is just as much dependent on an individual’s will-power and intelligence as it is on their environment and outside circumstances.

To find happiness and success, you therefore need to pay attention and take some control over the type of environments you are surrounding yourself in on a daily basis; even the strongest and brightest of minds will find it difficult to achieve their goals if they are in a completely wrong environment for them.

This is because every aspect of your external life has some influence over your internal thoughts and behaviors, especially the people you surround yourself with on a daily basis, and the type of places where you spend most of your time.

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I took some risks this week. Some worked out, some didn’t - but all were learned from.

If some people were only half as good at taking action as they were at making excuses, the things they would accomplish…

If you can live the rest of your life the way you are today, then that’s awesome and you should keep doing what you’re doing. But if you can’t, what is it going to take for you to start making a change?

You win some, you learn some.

I hate the excuse, “I can’t find time to do it.” If it really matters to you, you can make the time for it.

If your goals in life came too easy, then they wouldn’t feel as rewarding. Working hard reaps big benefits, both in the actual results you get in life, as well as in your own sense of pride and accomplishment.

You can’t fix a problem if you’re too busy avoiding it.

Seeing people do what they do best is always motivating, even if it doesn’t directly relate to my own passions.