Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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 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 HOLIDAYTrue will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
RYAN HOLIDAYWe decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhere the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
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 HOLIDAYOrdinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
RYAN HOLIDAYGreat times are great softeners.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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 HOLIDAYConning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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 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 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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