You struggle to sleep at night when your days are not full enough, and you struggle to wake up in the morning when your purpose is not clear enough.

#orangebook

If you have time to complain about how the game is unfair, you have time to figure out what game you should play if you want to win next time.

#orangebook

Cynicism disappears when you are happy with your life.

Anger disappears when you are happy with who you have around.

Envy disappears when you are happy with who you are.

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A lot of people who think they are "open-minded" actually lack the courage of making choices and standing up for something they believe in, and they often spend their whole lives never getting "lucky" because they were always too scared of committing to one direction.

#orangebook

"Diversity" has nothing to do with tolerating behaviors that are harmful to everyone else in society.

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You'd be surprised by the number of "successful" people who actually got there out of spite or personal insecurities, but truth is, the journey of life is actually so much more fun when you do what you do because you enjoy it, and not because you have something to prove.

#orangebook

Lack of depth is just lack of courage to deviate from the beaten tracks.

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At the beginning, most people just want money in order to alleviate their financial stress; they also want it to create an environment that allows them to focus on what they are actually talented at; but somehow, once they reach these milestones, greed takes over, they get influenced by the many people who are obsessed with power; they start upgrading their lifestyle instead of fulfilling their potential; and it's often way too late when they realize that they actually lived the life that someone else set up for them.

#orangebook

Good writing is just independent thinking, that's why people who are always grinding and chasing what everyone else is also chasing are always boring, you can't think originally as long as you have the same goals as everybody else.

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You will regularly meet rich people in terrible physical shape because that's what happens when you focus on mindlessly earning money instead of thoughtfully building wealth. The right direction in life always involves the freedom to become the best version of yourself. Anxiety and envy are the signs that you are not playing the games you truly want to play.

#orangebook

“Bad luck” is when you act without knowing.

“Anxiety” is when you know without acting.

“Peace of mind” is when you know and act as you are meant to.

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"Talent" is just a way to describe how you spend your time when no one is watching.

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Your wealth is a lagging indicator of your mental clarity; if you can maintain a sharp judgment throughout the ups and downs of life for many years and decades, it's inevitable that you end up becoming the healthiest, wealthiest, happiest version of yourself, and when that happens, you will notice that you are also surrounded by the exact people you need, the very people that you deserve.

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People don't struggle to get progress, they struggle to choose a direction and commit to it. Just like you won't finish your book if you constantly change the story, you won't build a satisfying life if you constantly change the direction of your efforts.

#orangebook #Direction #Commitment #Focus

The best "revenge" that you can have is to "disappear" and live a great life surrounded by people you love, doing what you love, in a neighborhood you love, in a version of yourself you love.

@QB_Trailers Thank you! 🧡

#orangebook #Revenge #SelfLove #GreatLife

You can't be a good writer without good observation skills, and you can't have good observation skills if you are constantly living in your mind and judging everything instead of seeing things as they are.

#orangebook #Writing #Observation #Mindfulness

You can fix all your addictions and unhealthy habits by simply clarifying a meaningful long-term goal that requires you to become the most clear-minded, high-energy, healthy version of yourself.

#orangebook #Addictions #Goals #Habits

You are not just "wasting one day," you are conditioning your mind to believe that you have time, that you don't need to act with a sense of urgency, and before you know it, these will pile up into wasted years or even decades, and you will be wondering why you couldn't see it earlier, while you were still young and full of possibilities. You don't need to be in a rush when you are fifteen, but the kind of people who assume that they will always have time often wake up at forty-five with little to show for it, wondering what happened during the past three decades.

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#orangebook #TimeManagement #Urgency #Procrastination

The mental clarity you don't have is the habits you didn't have the self-discipline to maintain long enough.

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If you look back at the initiatives you took when you were younger, many of them seem foolish and obviously wrong in retrospect, you might even feel quite embarrassed by some of them; but that was also the only way, the only people who make no mistake are people who do nothing.

In doubt, when you feel stuck, choose the direction of what you fear (out of embarrassment, out of insecurity, out of awareness of your ignorance); that's usually how you will actually optimize your growth and unlock the more extraordinary timelines that you could live.

That's also therapy for your anxiety, it's much healthier to be wrong and move forward, than be neither right nor wrong but stuck in confusion.

#orangebook