6 Quotes
"Advice comes from people who don’t know what they don’t know - Counsel comes from people who have been where you need to be. Seek counsel over advice." - Ben Muresan
"The good life is the results of good relationships" - Anonymous
"The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce." — Naval Ravikant
“My alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”― Malcolm X
"Gratitude is what protects us from arrogance" - Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can't expect to live a positive life if you hang with negative people."- Teronie J. Donaldson (yep, that’s me - cool right)
Articles
—8 Habits That Can Change Your Life Today … If Applied Now
—27 Tips For Mastering Anything
—6 Stoic Philosophy Quotes That Will Motivate You When You’re Struggling
Notes/Observations/Thoughts
I took these 2 sets of notes from the book The slight Edge by Jeff Olsen
You can gauge the limitations of a person’s life by the size of the problems that get him or her down. You can measure the impact a person’s life has by the size of the problems he or she solves. If the size of the problems you solve is, “Do I put the cans in the bottom of the bag, and then put the bread on top?” as a grocery store bagger, that’s the level of your problem solving and that’s the level of your pay. If you can solve big problems, you can graduate to big pay— because the size of your income will be determined by the size of the problems you solve, too. What most people call a “problem” is simply a gap, an open space between point A and point B. And if you keep an open mind, it’s an open space you can bridge. -
In the past fifteen years, science has learned:
Happiness doesn’t come from genetics, luck, or chance.
Happiness has a lot less to do with circumstances than we think it does.
Happiness isn’t the result of some big, out-of-reach event or attainment.
Happiness is created by simple, easy things we do every day.
And unhappiness is created by not doing those simple, easy, everyday things.
How you realize happiness is by doing some simple things, and doing them every day.
One of the most radical and remarkable things about happiness research is the discovery that doing things that make you happy doesn’t just make you happier. It also makes your life work better.
This is one of the central findings in the entire movement of happiness research: when it comes to understanding how to achieve happiness, most of us have it backward. We believe, “Once I become successful, then I’ll be happy.” Or, “Once I become healthier … once I find that relationship … once I’m living where I want to live … once my income is high enough to manage my life without stress … then I’ll be happy.” But that’s not how it works.
It works exactly the opposite way. Once you do what it takes to raise your everyday level of happiness, then you will become more successful, then you’ll become healthier, then you’ll find that relationship. The more you raise your own happiness level, the more likely you’ll start achieving all those things you want to achieve.
Watched
1- Hal Elrod interview on Tom Bilyeau show
2- Listen to Ryan Holiday on James Altucher Choose Yourself Podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-james-altucher-show/id794030859?i=1000492919021
Ryan Holiday, author, and the founder of The Daily Stoic, new book, "Lives of the Stoics" is now THE book on how to apply Stoicism to make your every aspect of your life better, as well as learn the history of these great philosophers and the times they've lived in.
3- TED Talk - Robert Waldinger - What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness 754869
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the director of a 75-year-old study on adult development, Waldinger has unprecedented access to data on true happiness and satisfaction. In this talk, he shares three important lessons learned from the study as well as some practical, old-as-the-hills wisdom on how to build a fulfilling, long life.
Learned -
Communication with family, friends, and others is the key to living a good life.
Book of The Week
The Miracle morning quick summary.
To have an effective morning engage in these activities;
Silence - meditation, prayer, focus leads to Peace
Reading - stimulate your mind -keeps you motivated
Affirmations - belief in self keeps you empowered
Visualization -the promise of who you will be - keeps you inspired
Journaling - tracking your process and progress --leads you to become Grateful
Exercise - motion creates emotion - keeps you Energized
Lesson in action
There is much more to this book than this- but I was looking for a better way to start my day and I have found this routine effective.
Music
My September 2020 music playlist
https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/september-2020/pl.u-V9D73W9iEXadGz
Ever since last year, I have been creating a monthly music playlist - whatever songs I heard and liked during that month and I add to the playlist. Please enjoy my September 2020 list.