It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
RYAN HOLIDAYIt’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
RYAN HOLIDAYNo one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
RYAN HOLIDAYOur first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhen intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
RYAN HOLIDAYThere is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
RYAN HOLIDAYDiscipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhere the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
RYAN HOLIDAYTo do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.
RYAN HOLIDAYFocus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
RYAN HOLIDAYAm I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
RYAN HOLIDAYProblems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
RYAN HOLIDAYBad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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