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  • As you know from reading my blog this is part of a video that Jocko made, which guided me towards the path.⠀ ⠀ Whatever it is you fear: take the first, smallest possible step towards your fear.⠀ ⠀ What's a step that you have recently taken?⠀ ⠀ #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #Discipline #ExtremeOwnership #Fear #InspirationalQuotes #Knowledge #Leadership #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Motivational #PersonalGrowth #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #SelfDevelopment #TuesdayMotivation #Truth #WordsOfWisdom #JockoWillink #PushYourself #SelfHelp #SelfCare #Wisdom #Fearless #Emotions
  • You need to know where you are going!⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ You need a goal. Maybe more than one.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Making progress towards a "heavenly" goal gives your life purpose and your every day actions meaning. The more significant the goal, the more meaning you'll experience.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ What goal are you pursuing this week?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ #12RulesForLife #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #InspirationalQuotes #Meaning #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Motivational #MotivationMonday #NobodyCaresWorkHarder #Purpose #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #Responsibility #SelfDevelopment #SelfHelpBook #Success #StayFocused #Time #Truth #WordsOfWisdom #JordanPeterson #MondayMotivation #MotivationalMonday #Ambition
  • @jordan.b.peterson outlined his new book "Beyond (Mere) Order" (to be published in January 2020 roughly speaking) in his recent January-Q&A on YouTube!⠀ ⠀ I'm really excited about this book having finished my reread of 12 Rules For Life just a few days ago.⠀ ⠀ Which rule will you try to follow?⠀ ⠀ #JordanPeterson #12RulesForLife #JordanBPeterson #BeyondMereChaos #BeyondChaos #Books #Book #booklovers #MapsOfMeaning #WordsOfWisdom #Truth #Knowledge #Meaning #Psychology #bookworm #newrelease #comingsoon #newbook #isnstabook #instaread #JockoWillink #Responsbility #Wisdom #SelfDevelopment #SneakPeek #sneekpeak #moretocome #AnotherOne
  • You need a purpose in your life.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Why?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Because having a purpose gives your every day goals meaning. It means you want to do certain things, because they are a steppingstone towards your vision. They are meaningful.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ How to find your purpose?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ GaryVee would say: "Try shit."⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Try what you'd like. Don't just read about, watch documentaries or YouTube-Videos about it: actually go out and do it, experience it.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ You've gotta love the process.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ When you find something that you like to strive towards AND you love the process...⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Well, you've hit something really, really good. Pursue that.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ What are you working towards?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ #JockoWillink #ExtremeOwnership #Entrepreneur #Discipline #Direction #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #Grind #Hustle #InspirationalQuotes #Meaning #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Motivational #Purpose #PersonalGrowth #Growth #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #SelfHelp #Success #StayFocused #Time #Truth #WordsOfWisdom
  • "When I have X I will be happy!" is the quickest way to unhappiness.⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ Just remember all the times you've thought that already:⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ When I graduate I will be happy!⁣⁣⠀ When I have a relationship I will be happy!⁣⁣⠀ When I have saved enough money I will be happy!⁣⁣⠀ When I have that one job I will be happy!⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ Yet that happiness doesn't last forever. It fades. We become used to it.⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ That's why we want more:⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ A better car, a better house, more trips, more money...⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ It's an endless cycle that never truly makes you happy.⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ An alternative way to more meaningful happiness is to be found "in the journey uphill". It's found in striving for something meaningful, maybe even difficult every day. It's moving closer to your goals every day.⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ What matters isn't necessarily attaining something, but the journey. Thus the direction you're heading becomes a lot more important than what you attain along the way.⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ What direction are you heading in?⁣⁣⠀ ⁣⁣⠀ #JordanPeterson #12RulesForLife #MapsOfMeaning #Discipline #Direction #SelfAuthoring #Grind #Hustle #InspirationalQuotes #Meaning #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Motivational #Purpose #PersonalGrowth #Growth #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #SelfHelp #Success #StayFocused #Time #Truth #WordsOfWisdom
  • Do you know that feeling when time seems to fly by while you are really engaged in something?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ This state is called the "Flow".⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It's one of the best experiences while you're working on something or doing something (for example competing in sports or martial arts).⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ While I'll discuss this at some point on my blog when I'll write about Cal Newport's book "Deep Work", here are three tips that are fairly easy to follow and help me greatly to enter the flow-state:⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Create your bunker.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ What I mean by that is to find a place where you'll be undistributed, uninterrupted and undistracted. For me it's the library. Whenever I can, I'll go there to study. I also use it just for studying and working on this project. That way my brain is "primed" to categorize the university as "a place to focus, work and study".⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ I also have all notifications, except some calls, muted all the time to avoid distractions. That way I only get notifications messages and emails when I want to dedicate time to them. They don't have power over my attention. I do.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ This makes it a lot harder to get distracted, than having a *bing* pop up every now and then and you phone's screen constantly lightening up with a potential dopamine hit in the form of a new, potentially important message from a friend or family.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ Lastly, I ritualized my time spent in the library:⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ I'll get a cappuccino, journal, read and then get to work. This is another priming routine that gets me into the mood and signals my brain that it's time to work and study in a focused manner soon.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ What do you do to enter the flow-state?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ #LifeLessons #SelfHelp #SelfImprovement #PersonalDevelopment #Flow #DeepWork #Focus #Journaling #Reading #WorkHarder #WorkSmarter #WorkSmart #FlowState #CalNewport #Consistency #Discipline #Grind #Hustle #KeepHammering #Mindset #Motivation #NobodyCaresWorkHarder #PersonalGrowth #Routines #Routine #Success #Time #Truth #StayFocused #Priming
  • Humility.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It means knowing that someone else is better than you. Even if you hypothetically would be the best at one thing, there are countless others who are better at an infinite number of other things.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It means acknowledging and even appreciating that others know more than you do; that you can learn from people you least expect.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It means being open to have your mind changed; to be willing to see things from another perspective - even to be willing to be wrong.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It's the ability to listen for understanding, instead of trying to win. It's the willingness to always be a student, even if you are a master.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ It's the willingness to prevail over your ego, to declare it the enemy to knowledge, to change, to improvement and clarity.⠀ ⁣⠀ It's the willingness to let parts of yourself die, so you can become who you want to be.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ What was the last situation when you were humbled?⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ #JockoWillink #ExtremeOwnership #DichotomyOfLeadership #Discipline #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #Humility #Ego #EgoIsTheEnemy #12RulesForLife #Gratitude #Happiness #GaryVee #InspirationalQuotes #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #NobodyCaresWorkHarder #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #Stoicism #Success #Truth #WordsOfWisdom #Wisdom #Humble
  • In short: you need understand yourself.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ If you make peace with and learn from the past, identify your weaknesses and strengths and plan your future you can make yourself and the future better.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ If you want to make peace with and learn from the past you can start by looking where you really do not want to look: in the dark corners of your mind. It's there were you'll find what you've been running away from a long time, what you are denying about yourself, what you think was or is weakness. But from what you also can - or have to - learn. It's only by becoming self-aware in this form, that you can learn from your weaknesses for the future and prevent yourself from repeating past failures.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ You can create some form of "hell" as Peterson calls it, to run away from. It's all those past failures that could happen again if you let your vices win.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ At the same time you can create a "heaven" to move towards. It can be as simple as "I want to make myself slightly better today, than I have been yesterday". Small improvements add up tremendously over time. Let your first idea be imperfect, but start to move in a better direction. Not by changing the world but by starting with changing yourself - before you change the world.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ That needs humility. But it's also a lot easier done than changing the world, it's something that you can actually do - today. It's not easy. But it's a place to start.⁣⠀ ⁣⠀ So, discover your own hell, describe your heaven and move towards it one day at a time.⁣⠀ ⠀ What have you recently learned about yourself?⠀ ⁣⠀ #JordanPeterson #MapsOfMeaning #12RulesForLife #DisciplineEqualsFreedom #ExtremeOwnership #Entreprenuer #InspirationalQuotes #Meaning #Mindset #MotivationalQuotes #Motivation #Motivational #NoExcuses #Purpose #PersonalGrowth #Quotes #Quote #QuotesToLiveBy #QOTD #QuoteOfTheDay #QuotestaGram #QuotesAboutLife #Responsibility #SelfDevelopment #SelfHelp #Success #Truth #SelfAwareness #WordsOfWisdom #Happiness

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