Quotes about Personal Growth

There are two coaches who have had enormous impact on me in the last five years: Carolyn Coughlin at Cultivating Leadership and Jim Dethmer at Conscious Leadership.

no puedes medirlo, no puedes mejorarlo.

I was back in the prison of all of the things that hold me back, but I could see that the door was locked from the inside.

Like everything, there's a pain period when you step out of your comfort zone. And just when it seems toughest, and you most want to give up (because it's too much time/work/energy, because you don't understand it, because you don't trust it), if you push through that moment, immediately afterward you break free and it becomes a habit that you feel you've been doing all your life (and know you should have been doing all your life).

Je?li kto? nie sprawia, ?e stajesz si? lepszy, tak naprawd? sprawia, ?e stajesz si? gorszy.

create yourself, instead of seeking to discover yourself.

I also keep a handful of blank pages in my morning journal to build a quote section over the course of the journal (pulling quotes from reading, podcasts, etc.). That way, I can easily refer back to it and flip through when looking for some insight.

Reduce el ego en un momento crítico de tu carrera, lo que te permitirá absorber todo lo que puedas sin los estorbos que bloquean la visión y el progreso de otros. Nadie está

So I thought, 'I'm always on time, and I always show up to things, so why don't I do that for myself?' So I put a handwritten note next to my bed that said—and it has three exclamation points—'Mike!!! You have a meeting at Café Pedlar [where I was writing] at 7 a.m. with your mind,' which is so stupid. It's so embarrassing to admit, but it worked!

he is the author of Anything You Want, a collection of short life lessons that I've read at least a dozen times.

Lo que más tememos hacer suele ser lo que más necesitamos hacer.

That's the underlying philosophy of Aoki Bootcamp:

empiezas a hacer esto consigues redefinirte como persona capaz de influir en el mundo.

work on the deficiencies you're most embarrassed by.

Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.

Life is not designed to hand us success or satisfaction, but rather to present us with challenges that make us grow.

Tara by Maria Popova (page 406), who said, "[Tara] has changed my life, perhaps more profoundly than anybody in my life." I then read Tara's first book, Radical Acceptance,

In the last five years, what new belief, behavior, or habit has most improved your life?

Be in a hurry to learn, not in a hurry to get validation.

And it turns out there are some pretty simple buttons you can press to give yourself a great day. Start by waking up from a good sleep, eating good food, leaving your phone/newspaper/computer behind, and simply writing down your plan for what will make the day great. Several hours of physical activity, some hard work, a chance to laugh with and help out other people—and you're pretty much there.

Morning pages are, as author Julia Cameron puts it, "spiritual windshield wipers.

The power broker in your life is the voice that no one ever hears. How well you revisit the tone and content of your private voice is what determines the quality of your life. It is the master storyteller, and the stories we tell ourselves are our reality. For instance, how do you speak to yourself when you make a mistake that upsets you? Would you speak that way to a dear friend when they've made a mistake? If not, you have work to do. Trust me, we all have work to do.

Just Kids, de Patti Smith:

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.