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What We Think About…
“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change your thoughts and you can change your world. A terrible cliche, isn’t?
And yet almost every self-made man will tell you just how important thoughts are. Alongside a lot of self-proclaimed gurus. Continue reading
How I Became an Early Riser
For many years, I was what some like to call “restless elite.” I’d go to bed at five in the morning, and wake up at around eleven…
Yes, I could properly function on just 6 hours of sleep. But I also drank a gallon of Coke, 5-6 coffees, and smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, so “function” might not be the kind of word that I could define even if you’d slap me with a dictionary. Or use it to wake me up.
I did all this because, well, in case you didn’t know, I live in the future.
Really.
My timezone is Bucharest, Romania. GMT+3. Which means I am usually a few hours ahead of just about everyone who reads my blog, so to fix this, I’d go to bed around the time the sun would rise. Continue reading
We Only Have What We Give
“We only have what we give.” — Isabel Allende
Even though at times it doesn’t seem so, all we are in this world is what we give. Your employer pays you according to your contribution to the company, the people around you love and respect you according to the effort you put into building and maintaining those relationships.
The world is but a mirror of who you are.
What we give to the world becomes our legacy. What we give becomes the one thing people will never forget.
If you aspire to leave the world better than you found it, you’ll be successful. Continue reading
8 Quick Tips to Help You Get Fit for Summer
“No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” ― Socrates
Considering it’s already May, I’d bet that I’m not the only one here wanting to get as fit as possible before summer. We want to be healthy and in good shape and able to be physically active.
Unfortunately, considering how stressful our daily lives have become, with unhealthy food readily available, with an even unhealthier lifestyle, with the difficulties of changing all those bad habits … getting fit isn’t always an easy process.
Many of us give up before we get very far.
So here are a few tips to help you get fit for summer.
You’ve Got to Love Yourself
“Your opinion of yourself becomes your reality. If you have all these doubts, then no one will believe in you, and everything will go wrong. If you think the opposite, the opposite will happen. It’s that simple. The higher your self-belief, the more your power to transform reality. Having supreme confidence makes you fearless and persistent, allowing you to overcome obstacles that stop most people in their tracks.” – Robert Greene
Do you know this cliche that the world acts as a mirror? We see what we want to see; what we expect to happen becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and will inevitably happen?
Well, it’s true.
If you don’t love yourself, why should anyone else? If you don’t trust yourself, how can you expect others to trust you? Relying on external validation never lasts.
But you know what lasts? Continue reading
If You Give Up on Your Dreams, What Do You Have Left?
We all know the classic rags to riches story. We all know the stories of successful people who had to overcome numerous obstacles in order to get to where they’re at.
And the truth is that we all kind of like to romanticize the hustle and the struggle. We like to romanticize hitting rock bottom as this place where you finally realize what is it that you want to do with your life, and it all clicks, and you somehow manage to connect all the dots, and then it’s all rainbows and sunshine…
Well, it’s not like that. Not like that at all. Continue reading