Weekly Quotes Chain! Theme: Discipline and Accountability

Thought of the week! Keep in mind it is Monday for me. 

"You could be good today but instead you choose tomorrow!" Marcus Aurelius 

Let us reflect on this quote with these quotes also in mind

• ''While we wait for life, life passes" - Seneca
• “How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” - Epictetus

Struggling to do your workout, finish studying, eating your veggies, not being angry at people? Tell yourself this quote everytime you are tempted to dishonor the commitments you made with yourself. "You could be good today but instead you choose tomorrow!" 

@Hope

You find the best quotes. Looking forward to following these!

Hi everyone! Sharing another quote. 

“Stick to what’s in front of you — idea, action, utterance.” — Marcus Aurelius

It is a good reminder to all of us who like to plan and plan and struggle to execute. Just focus on whatever is your immediate task, whatever words you have to choose next or whatever idea is relevant in the moment. You don't need to plan your whole month or even a week, what does this hour demand of you?

Question for anyone who wishes to reflect - What is the immediate action that you should take to live in accordance with your greater tasks?

Examples - eating a well balanced meal (You want to remain healthy or gain health), going for a walk (You want to be physically fit), doing the dishes (You want a clean kitchen) 

Hi everyone! It is Monday. Let us start the week by reflecting on this interesting quote

“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” - Epictetus

I like that it enjoins action with clarity. You can't simply state something and expect to achieve it nor can you get something you don't aim for, at least something worth having!

What is something you wish to be or achieve and what steps are you taking to get there?

Hi everyone! Sharing another classic by Marcus Aurelius

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offender’s ignorance of what is good or evil.

This quote helps one not take things personally. Too much heartache exists in this world because we take things personally. It also sets expectations right. 

If you struggle with taking things personally, you may wish to read this post. 

Hi everyone! One thing that most of us struggle with is change. We like our comfortable lives even with the known discomforts, the uncertainty that change brings is a lot sometimes. 

This is a good quote to be mindful of

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them. - Marcus Aurelius 

@Hope

We can see big changes just by recognizing entire civilizations and cultures being swallowed up by nature.

We can see big changes by seeing someone quitting alcohol, smoking, drugs, overeating or numerpus other destructable vices and how their lives improve and they eventually move forward and above those hardships and it's a big noticeable change.

When I think of change I envision big changes, big differences to my life, big consequences to my efforts. But in truth it is in the little change where all the power lays. The little weed that first started to grow around the great abandoned building. Or the choice not to take that one puff, pill or sip. Not to indulge in a destructible vice everyday. To make a bed, wash a dish or pick up a dirty sock to put in the laundry basket.

We do these things but life continues to bombard us was obstacles and sometimes we stop doing these things and stay stuck where we are at.

The change is so subtle and small that we don't recognize the goodness of it over hardships. We must believe good change will happen if we continue to do good things but it may not be noticeable in the short term or within your expectations so you must have faith and believe it will be better, much better in the long term. 

Do the small thing everyday until it is not a change anymore but just the way you do things now. 

Hi everyone! I hope your week has gone well. Today I have a quote from Seneca

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." 

It reminds me of a reel I saw the other day where the speaker was talking about 'the thing about courage is that you do the hard thing and then you get the courage' which I thought was an interesting perspective. 

Hi everyone! Quote of the day 

'Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.' Seneca

@Hope

Right On!

Hi everyone! Quote of the week

The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune’s control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately. - Marcus

@Hope

That is a powerful point to be reminded of

A lot of times, even if we are just thinking about all the things we need to do for the day and that is a small notion of the future because we're looking at what we're gonna do this afternoon or in a few hours.

Often when we think about everything we have to do for this/one day we get overwhelmed and we don't even do what's in front of us because our brains worrying about what's ahead of us, if that makes any sense.

So even on our daily future, focus on the task at hand and not worry about getting to the other things for the day.

“Everything yields to diligence.” Antiphanes

"By the yard, life is hard. By the inch, it's a cinch"...I don't know who said it first, but it's true.

Hi everyone! Quote of the week

'Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.' - Seneca

@Hope

"You could be good today but instead you choose tomorrow!" - My Father

Not a very uplifting message. It could be translated to "you are lazy."

@Gettingbettertoday

That is one way to look at it. Perspective matters!

Hi everyone! Quote of the day 

Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach. - Seneca

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” —Mary Anne Radmacher

Hi everyone! I hope your weekend went well. 

Quote of the day

“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” — Marcus Aurelius:

"Fall down seven times, get up eight."

- old Japanese proverb

I don't know what the point is of us spiraling through infinite and incomprehensible space on a pale blue dot in a solar system and galaxy light years away from countless infinite others but I know handling the weight of this mystery can be beyond hard sometimes and that being kind is one of the most beautiful things in the world.

Also seeking beauty, arranging ones life in a way that allows it to be sought and cultivating it into a more precious farm then gold and jewels to honor the place where all meets and sharing that with others in a honest way is important.

Furthermore it's not just about sharing the highs, it's about also sharing the lows and everything in between. A high shared soars twice as far, a low shared cuts only half as deep and the in between builds bridges never before imagined or seen.

Ultimately yes, it's true; we perhaps don't know what we're doing here but I don't think we really need to. We came without any great and specific programming and agenda and when we're kind and cultivate beauty through our inherent and unique expressions of creativity, nature and whatever our spirituality is then we're more than living. We are alive. A live.

"That which you seek, seeks you." - Rumi

"Do or do not, there is no try." - Yoda

"I have a dream." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Just keep going." - CommunicativePond1728