Self-improvement thread! (pls no negativity or politics)

[Bardp1999]

I beat my wife for going outside the house wearing makeup without me.

[unsunghero]

Being kind of a momma's boy the first time I heard this (true) story, I almost was brought to tears

The real reason Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson in their legendary fight, explained:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

[Nocht]

[unsunghero]

"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another"


"Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most"


"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will"

[unsunghero]

"Where our focus goes, energy flows" - Tony Robbins

[unsunghero]

"I tell people all the time...there is a difference between passion and obsession, and high-performers have an obsession about the topic. They are obsessed about the topic in which they are trying to learn, master, grow into...

Here's how you know the difference between the two: when you're passionate, everybody cheers you on; they're stoked for you. 'Oh you found your passion? Awesome! Follow your passion, live with passion, be passionate'

When you're obsessed, they're like 'why you gotta be so crazy?...Why can't you be satisfied? Why do you always gotta get things so perfect? Why do you spend so much time here?' When you're obsessed, people think you're NUTS

So it's different. I always tell people that if no one thinks you're crazy, you're not yet operating to the outer limits of your potential"

[unsunghero]

"Make practice your art...repetition your addiction...excellence your obsession. First comes the choice, then comes the commitment!!"

[unsunghero]

"You’ve failed again and again and again. The lights are cut off. But you’re still looking at your dream, reviewing it every day...and say to yourself “IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL I WIN”

(yes the hyena makes it)

[unsunghero]

"If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,

to work day and night for it,

To give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it

If all that you dream and scheme is about it,

and life seems useless and worthless without it,

And if you'd gladly sweat for it and prep for it and plan for it,

and lose all your terror of the opposition for it

And if you simply go after that thing that you want,

with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity,

faith, hope, and confidence and stern pertinacity

If neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout,

sickness, nor pain of body and brain,

can keep you away from the thing that you want

If dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,

with the help of God, YOU WILL GET IT!"

-- Les Brown

[Whale biologist]

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"If you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it,

to work day and night for it,

To give up your time, your peace, and your sleep for it

If all that you dream and scheme is about it,

and life seems useless and worthless without it,

And if you'd gladly sweat for it and prep for it and plan for it,

and lose all your terror of the opposition for it

And if you simply go after that thing that you want,

with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity,

faith, hope, and confidence and stern pertinacity

If neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout,

sickness, nor pain of body and brain,

can keep you away from the thing that you want

If dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,

with the help of God, YOU WILL GET IT!"

-- Les Brown

This Les Brown fella seems to style himself a chimpanzee type of Rudyard Kipling in 'If'. The seminal work is much better.