Tag: growth

• Focus On Progress

  Focus on progress, not achievement.

  Achievement is temporary.

  Not only that, the satisfaction felt from achievement is fleeting.

  The more you achieve, the further away contentment seems to get.

  Progress, on the other hand, is always available to you so long as you seek it.

  And progress’s satisfaction is repeatable.

  With a mind focused on steady, incremental progress, you can find contentment in the journey.

  Progress is not a straight path, however, nor is it without its obstacles and challenges, but it is a path of meaning and fulfillment.

  In the end, progress may be all we truly have.

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  October 19, 2023

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• Trying To Win

  Not trying to win is a means of protecting yourself against loss. 

  If you never put it on the line, if you never take a risk, you will not experience the pain and frustration that comes from losing. 

  You will also never experience the lessons, challenges, and struggles that push you to improve. 

  The perceived security that accompanies never really trying may feel like safety, but it is also stagnation. 

  You cannot make dramatic changes in your life and your person without vulnerability and without risking failure. 

  The most profound and permanent growth comes from the pain of giving your all and coming up short. 

  These experiences and their subsequent lessons are what shape your character, give you the courage to try new things, and fuel the fire for growth and improvement so that you do not have to feel this pain again. 

  But if you continue to test yourself, if you continue to put it on the line, and you continue to take courageous and vulnerable action, you will feel the pain of failure many times over. 

  The alternative is to feel nothing at all. 

  Not trying to win, in whatever arena you choose to step into, is tantamount to stealing from yourself, as you are robbing yourself of the opportunity to test and expand your limitations.

  If you do not risk loss, you cannot truly live. 

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  October 16, 2023

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• What You Need

  If you always got what you wanted, you would find yourself deeply disappointed. 

  You may think you know what you want, but you most likely do not know what you need. 

  You want an easy, enjoyable life. 

  What you need, however, is difficulty, friction, and growth. 

  You may choose these things in one way or another already, but you are highly unlikely to choose them in the ways that you truly need.

  When you get what you want, you get a mirror. 

  You get a reflection of who you already are. 

  When you get what you need, you get a glimpse into who you can be. 

  Who you are will be challenged by what you need to face. 

  Through these challenges, you get to become someone new, better, and stronger. 

  Getting what you want is easy. 

  Accepting and embracing what you need is where the real work is done. 

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  October 10, 2023

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• Trying Changes You

  You will never truly know yourself unless you test your limitations. 

  This means stepping out of your comfort zone and doing things that are frightening. 

  There is no courage, after all, without there first being fear. 

  And the only way to know how far you can go is to try to go further than you are capable of. 

  You cannot know your limitations without trying to push past them. 

  In the process, you will likely find that you are capable of far greater things than you expected. 

  Your perceived limitations are based on your past experience, your relationships, and the beliefs you have inherited from others, but none of these factors tells the whole story. 

  You are so much more than what you imagine yourself to be, but you will never know unless you try things you may fail at. 

  And when, not if, you fail, try again and again and again. 

  The trying is what changes you. 

  The effort is what forces you to grow. 

  Your limitations, you will find, are not fixed, but fluid. 

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  September 18, 2023

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• Seek Your Limits

  Do not underestimate your resourcefulness.

  You are capable of so much more than you give yourself credit for.

  You cannot imagine the depths of your strength and resilience until you have been tested.

  Until you have been pushed to your limits, you do not know what your limits are.

  Explore your edges.

  Seek out experiences that challenge you, that push you past your perceived limitations, and that force you to grow.

  You will fail.

  This is part of the process.

  You cannot truly know yourself until you have known failure and you cannot truly grow until you have grown past it.

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  August 5, 2023

  failure, growth, know yourself, limitations, resilience, resourcefulness

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