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One small thing at a time

With all the things going on in the world we can get negative and give up easy. I think we should take it day by day and attempt to make every moment matter. Since I started using my time productively, I’m feeling more free and well not sad.

One small thing at a time. I’m attacking big tasks and breaking them up in parts, at the end of a day, completing those parts does put a smile on my face. The small things makes the biggest changes in the world. Think of it this way, the world is made up of small processes and it’s those processes that makes everything.

If you don’t know what stoicism is, I suggest reading up on it. There are enormous amounts of information available. As always, here are some stoic quotes:

“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be One.”

Marcus Aurelius

“If it is not right, do not do it, if it is not true, do not say it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.”

Marcus Aurelius

“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”

Seneca

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?”

Epictetus

“Curb your desire—don’t set your heart on so many things and you will get what you need.”

Epictetus

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Viktor Frankl

“Learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference.”

Marcus Aurelius

“Make the mind tougher by exposing it to adversity.”

Robert Greene

“Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.”

Marcus Aurelius

“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.”

Epictetus

“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”

Voltaire

“Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I leave you with that, you are probably tired of reading. I hope this makes you think about a few things and brightens your day a little.

Odd numbered days

Today I’m describing some thoughts that had been prickling away at me the past month or so. I’m expressing it in the form of a few quotes.

Beautiful things don’t ask for attention.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau

You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.

William W. Purkey

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better.

Camus

I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.

Virginia Woolf

Try as you will, you cannot annihilate that eternal relic of the human heart, love.

Victor Hugo

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

Also seeing what’s going on with SpaceX and our current technology, I found this quote at the right time.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Dan Quayle

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Sigmund Freud

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

Sigmund Freud

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

John Muir

You may not see the pattern, that’s OK. I’ll leave you with a few more.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

George S. Patton

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

Tom Bodett

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’

Sigmund Freud

I hope these quotes gets you thinking.

Thanks for reading.

Looking back, thinking forward

Looking back at the past year I noticed that time is moving faster. It’s a relative feeling, faster each year. Is it because we are busy or because we are too engaged in the worlds media and noise.

As an individual it’s up to you to decide what noise to let in and what to use constructively. I’ve learned that it’s good to let things go and only cling to good principles and not to things.

Lets make this year go slower and better by applying the Law of Attraction. I’m starting this year by throwing away the idea that the last few years went by to fast. A good start is a believe in a good start.

Here are a few good quotes for the year

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Buddha

The trouble is, you think you have time.

Buddha

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Buddha

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.

Buddha

Time is a storm in which we are all lost.

William Carlos Williams

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

Charles Darwin

People often complain about lack of time when lack of direction is the real problem.

Zig Ziglar