Whether it’s from great discipline, making something of value or beauty, or even from accomplishing something, find your joy.
The more joy you find in your work, the better you’ll become at it and the more success you’ll have.
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Category: Observe
Starting Is Hard Or Easy?
Starting a project is easy. Finishing is hard. Starting to revise schoolwork for an exam is hard but building momentum is easier.
Hard now can make it easier later. Easier now could mean hard later.
Whether it is easy or hard to start, start anyway. Start now.
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Minority Of One
At a granular level, everyone is a minority. You can generalise the world into one group: humans. Or you can subdivide the world by large, fairly obvious groups such as sex, colour, height, weight, intelligence, wealth, or geography.
However, you can further subdivide people into the street they grew up on, the parents they had, the schools they attended and the scars on their body. Ultimately, their DNA is a very unique item for everyone.
So we are all a minority of one. But some people band together in larger groups to take advantage of certain, similar characteristics to gain greater influence from the group.
Be careful who you align with. In the end, you’re still a minority of one.
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Understand Your Emotions
Your emotions dictate a lot (most/all) of what you think and do. We like to think we’re quite rationale, and many are, but many are not. Be careful not to be ruled by hate and fear or a desire to make everything perfect.
Ensure your emotions are in check and draw sensible conclusions after that.
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Someone Has Your Answer
You just need to find out who and ask them the question. Yes, it’s that simple. Although, it might take days or weeks to find them, so you better get looking!
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Time Moves Forward
Occasionally time moves too slow or too fast. One thing is for certain though – time moves forward.
You can’t go back and unsay things or undo things. You have to accept and move on. This can be hard or easy, depending on what the situation was.
We can fight time and try to hold it back. Or we can decide not to accept the situation. However, it tends to make life a lot more difficult in those cases.
It would be easier if we didn’t have these emotion things. But we do. So don’t be too hard on yourself. Time also heals all wounds. You might just need more time than you would like it to be.
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There’s A Lot We Don’t Know
If you think your way is the right way and only way, you may have some more to learn. You may still be right, but knowing it is the challenge. The certainty of knowing something, may be misplaced, given all that we don’t know.
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What Do You Value Most?
Is it your health, wealth or music subscription? Have you thought much about this? Observe what you say and do. This will help you understand what you really value, not just what you think or say you value.
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Tide Comes In And Goes Out
As sure as the waves lap the shore, new ideas will come forward, pause and retreat. Sometimes huge waves crash on the shoreline, but the water still retreats.
We see fashions and trends come and go. The longer they stay or the more they push into the mainstream, the harder and faster they tend to snap back.
We’re seeing some very large trends almost whiplash as they’re ushered out and back into the sea of idea obscurity.
Sometimes gentle waves lapping on the shore are much better and long lasting than a tropical storm or tsunami.
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Things Change
Some change is wonderful or exciting. Other change is dreadful or painful. Change will continue to be there regardless of how we see it.
Change just is. We give the change its meaning. We can also adjust what meaning we give to the change. Do try to make it more positive. It can be very hard. But if you do this, it can have a positive impact. It will take time and repeated effort and brain training. It will be worth it though.
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