Quotes, Ideas & New Experiences (2022)

Quotes:

1. “Many capable people are kept from getting to the next level of contribution because they can’t let go of the belief that everything is important.” – Essentialism
2. “Grab joy wherever you can find it.” – Sarah Silverman
3. “Stay committed to your decisions but flexible in your approach.” – Tony Robbins
4. “Getting older is inevitable, aging is optional.” – Unknown 
5. “It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So, to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.” – Henry Ward Beecher 
6. “Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.”-Milton Friedman
7. “A genius is the one most like himself” – Thelonius Monk
8. “Sometimes, your greatest hopes are destroyed to prepare you for something better.”
9. “Happiness isn’t something you find. Its what’s left once you get rid of all the things that make you unhappy.” – Jason Portnoy
10. “Forgiveness is accepting the apology you will never receive.” – Shawne Duperon
11. “The reason people cling so stubbornly to their hate is because if they let go of it, they’ll be forced to face their own pain.” – James Baldwin
12. “Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” ― William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
13. “If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you’re the asshole.” – Raylen Givens Justified
14. “War is the continuation of politics by other means.” 
15. “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” – Michael Hopf 
16. “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like hard work.” – Edison
17. “The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.”- Anthony De Mello, Awareness
18. “I don’t count my sit-ups. I only start counting when it starts hurting. When I feel pain, that’s when I start counting, because that’s when it really counts.” – Muhammed Ali 
19. “it’s no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
20. “Live life as if it’s the 2nd time around but you got it wrong the first time.” – Viktor Frankl
21. “It has always been enough to be part of the natural sequence of things. Sure as the tides. Nature my guide.” – Where the Crawdads Sing
22. “Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness. – Yousuf Karsh 
23. “Modern society is three days deep.” – Martin Shaw 
24. “The limits of our language determine the limits of life.” – Wittgenstein
25. “Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions.” – Elizabeth King 
26. “People are not looking for the meaning of life. They are looking for the feeling of being alive.” – Joseph Campbell
27. “We are a society that lives in denial of death, and so we are a society that denies life.” – Lion Tracker’s Guide to Life 

Ideas Worth Exploring:

1. Yearly Practice – Jot the 5 things/possessions you value most (assume family/people excluded; see how they change or don’t over time) 
2. Byron Cady – “The Work” 
3. What is your 50/30/20 work/time methodology for life? 
4. Weekly appointment with yourself to scream or move your body 
5. Timesafe to lock your phone away 
6. Krav Maga – 7 skills to save your life course 
7. Looking to take a sabbatical from work…Vagabonding.net 
8. Zone 2 Training for building endurance 
9. Chat GPT-3 / Stable Diffusion 
10. Create a Pre-Performance Routine with Flow triggers built in 
11. Create a list of things to do when you’re sick (ie: long-form articles, movies, etc.) 

Favorite New Experiences:

1. Road Biking 
2. Learning Proper Swim Technique  
3. Fly Fishing 
4. Burning Man 
5. Acro Yoga 
6. Watsu 
7. Rock Climbing (outdoors) 
8. Shiftwave
9. Dance Classes – Ecstatic, Somatic, Flow, Bachata, Salsa, Contact Improv – try them all
10. Hang Gliding

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