Benjamin Hardy

Do you consume your time or invest it? Is the work you’re doing a transaction or a long-term relationship?

Sadly, most people are living a lie. They don’t keep commitments even to themselves. They don’t accomplish their goals and dreams. They are bound by fears and other emotions they so desperately want to avoid.

Confronting the reality of death is one of the best wake-up calls for beginning to truly live.

The reason most people fail to make the best long-term decisions is because they don’t know what they really want. If you don’t know what you want, of course you’ll take the best thing offered you.

The very challenges inherent in life make it possible to thrive. Without said challenges, there would be nothing to overcome. You can’t possibly have “the best” of times without simultaneously having “the worst” of times.

If you work hard in a particular class, you’ll love that class. If you work hard on a project, you’ll love that project. If you invest yourself in a relationship, you’ll love that person.

When you make a decision, things will start to shift. Regardless of the absurdities around you, you’ll get momentum. Stuff will start happening. But only when you’re serious and resolute, come hell or high water.

Look back on all the things you did today. Did you act like the person you wish to become? If you repeated today every day for the next year, realistically, where would you end up?

Competing with those at your same level yields slow and minimal improvements. You’re better off “competing” with people far advanced than your current level.

In order to make epic decisions, you want to be in a peak state. Do whatever gets you in a “natural” high where you can hear your highest intuitions.

You haven’t learned how to learn. You don’t have confidence. When you look in the mirror, you don’t like the person you see.

If you got fat the instant you ate ice-cream, you probably wouldn’t eat it. If you got lung cancer the moment you smoked a cigarette, you probably wouldn’t smoke it.