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 HOLIDAYI run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
RYAN HOLIDAYDollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
RYAN HOLIDAYAn entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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 HOLIDAYWhat I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhere the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
RYAN HOLIDAYProblems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
RYAN HOLIDAYFocus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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 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 HOLIDAYFailure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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.
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