Pete Hinzy
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Pete Hinzy
“Rather than living every day as if it’s my last, I’ve shifted to a gentler approach of living every day as if it’s my first. I want to wake up and meet the day with the wonder of a newborn, to cultivate childlike qualities like curiosity and play.”
- Suleika Jaquad
An ancient Greek saying holds that we are tormented not by things themselves but by the opinions that we have of them.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
I think “And what else?” is the best coaching question in the world. It does two things: It extends the period of curiosity, and it tames your advice monster.
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” Ghandi
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way
When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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Work out early in the morning. You will have accomplished something right from the start and know that you are moving in the right direction. Waiting till the end of the day you will often be too tired, mentally and physically and there are too many alternatives.