“I lived so carefully, thinking someone was watching. But the stage was empty, the audience never came.”   — Osamu Dazai

Without self-belief, you accepted what's handed to you. With self-belief, everything is yours for the taking.

No success until you accept the unglamorous repetition of stacking bricks, day after day, for years at a time.

Everything compounds. Even something as small as a negative thought can blossom into negative self-talk and eventually you become paralysed into taking action. Be mindful of the small things because they're what makes up your life.

Losers ask questions because they're afraid to act. Winners ask questions because they're curious. If you want to stagnate in life, be the former. If you want to exceed in life, be the latter.

Trying to understand things is making you miserable. You don't need to know the name of every flower to appreciate a garden. You don't need to explain why music moves you to enjoy it. You don't need to turn every beautiful moment into some profound insight. Understanding less allows you to experience more. Less thinking. More living.

If you want to improve your concentration, implement point meditation into your life. This is where you draw a dot at eye level and stare at it everyday for 3 minutes. Focus on the dot intently. The best gains will come from consistency.

You can spend your entire life trying to figure out how to live, without realising that the figuring out has become your life.

Isolation is the cure to everything. You find out what your values are. You find out what type of company you enjoy. You find out what kind of life you want to live in the future. Without isolation, you're doomed to follow the crowd.

People have this weird misconception that with time things will get better. But you must realise that as time goes on, the more fixed and ingrained your patterns are Hence: "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

When you act from a place of obligation and getting it right, you create internal pressure within yourself resulting in resistance to doing the work. When you act from a place of wonder and experimentation, you let go of the internal pressure within yourself resulting in executing the work seamlessly.

You can stare at the same picture and see two completely different things. Nothing about the picture changes. Only where you direct your attention. Now imagine how many opportunities, strengths, and possibilities you've overlooked simply because you've become accustomed to seeing yourself a certain way.

You can spend an hour visualising, spamming affirmations in the mirror and writing the life you want to live... But if you spend the remaining 23 hours reinforcing the same old identity, you've accomplished very little.