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141 – Motivation and Willpower
Read more…: 141 – Motivation and WillpowerI’ve been thinking a lot about motivation and how we accomplish the goals that we set out to do. And I think there’s a bit a confusion about motivation and how it helps us get things done. Let’s take a look at the definition of…
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140 – Circumstances Don’t Make The Man
Read more…: 140 – Circumstances Don’t Make The Man“Circumstances don’t make the man, they only reveal him to himself.” – Epictetus How do we deal with difficulties? Do we see them as challenges or opportunities? As something that is to be suffered through, or something that teaches us who we are? In…
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139 – Judgments
Read more…: 139 – JudgmentsShow Notes: How many times have we made judgments about someone when we first meet them, that later turn out to be completely wrong? “Impressions, striking a person’s mind as soon as he perceives something within range of his senses, are not voluntary or subject…
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138 – The Greatest Obstacle to Living
Read more…: 138 – The Greatest Obstacle to Living“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow, and loses today. You are arranging what…
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137 – Worthy of Your Potential
Read more…: 137 – Worthy of Your Potential“Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcomes. Therefore, give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. Remain steadfast…and one…
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136 – The Scent of a Good Man
Read more…: 136 – The Scent of a Good Man“The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander, as soon as he comes near him, must smell him whether he chooses or not.” ― Marcus Aurelius Show Notes: This quote cracked me up.…
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135 – No Easy Thing
Read more…: 135 – No Easy Thing“You must know that it is no easy thing for a principle to become a man’s own, unless each day he maintain it and hear it maintained, as well as work it out in life.” – Epictetus Show Notes: How often do we hear…
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134 – A Wise Man
Read more…: 134 – A Wise Man“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. ” ― Epictetus Show Notes: If you were to sit down and write a list of all the things that you…
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133 – A Momentary Loss of Attention
Read more…: 133 – A Momentary Loss of Attention“Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason. it’s much easier for a mariner to wreck his ship than it is for him to keep it sailing safely; all he has to do is head…
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132 – Anything Can Happen
Read more…: 132 – Anything Can Happen“How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Book 12 Show Notes: – How often do we think that something in life shouldn’t happen to us?– As if we are somehow immune…
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