"I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill. I will not be outworked. You may be more talented than me. You might be smarter than me. And you may be better looking than me. But if we get on a treadmill together, you are going to get off first or I'm going to die. It's really that simple. I'm not going to be outworked."
"You don't set out to build a wall. You don't say I'm going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that's every been built. You don't start there. You say I'm going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. .... You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. "
i hate you emo burgs.
i hate your conscience. i hate your feelings. your unconditional loyalty. your inability to just "let go".
i wish you were more like the T2000 (you know, terminator 2). unable to feel. unable to shed a tear. willing to move on and not look back.
but thats how you roll, emo burgs. i wish you could change who you are. i really do.
it would make things easier. a whole lot easier.
"Every person who's changed the world or built an empire has sat where you're sitting now". - up in the air
i realize that i am a big loser. i have lost a countless number of times.
and my goal this year? to lose more than i have ever lost before.
how does that even make sense? well it is because i believe that the most successful people are those that really go for it. and well when you really go for it, things aren't always going to go your way.
yeah you could "play it safe" or "play it close to the vest" but how much are you really challenging yourself? how much are you truly growing? because i always believe that to truly grow, you'll have to step out of that comfort zone.
i've lost a million times. when it comes to relationships, running, work, school, basketball, etc.
"If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, "Here comes number seventy-one!" - Richard M. DeVos
its why i tell people my favorite athlete is peyton manning. because he lost MANY times before he finally won. and he admitted each time he lost, that he gave it his all. all too many times, when we lose, we give an excuse why we lose. or we don't try 100% so IF we lose, we have an excuse to why we lost (again, the 4th barrier that coelho discusses).
"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. - Conan O'Brien
time to work really hard and be persistent, even when (not if) things don't always go my way. because noone wants to live a life of regret. and we don't get do-overs.
finished reading the alchemist again and my head is swimming with thoughts...
the 4th obstacle to achieving your dream, "the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives" confuses many, including myself. i mean if its your dream, why would you sabotage it?
we often hear the expression, "listen to your heart". well sometimes our heart tells us not to follow our dream. thats silly right? why would our heart want us not to follow a dream?
the thing is, following dreams is painful. sometimes we don't achieve what we seek out for. and our hearts know this. sometimes our heart tells us to stop this pursuit to protect us from the potential hurt and failure.
so listen to our hearts. but really understand why our hearts are telling us something. because sometimes we shouldn't walk away from the dream. we should pursue it, even if it means risking potential hurt and pain and going AGAINST what our heart tells us to do. b/c as coelho says, "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."
if any of this doesn't make any sense, please read this book. or ask me for it, and i'll let you borrow mine. coelho presents these thoughts in a much more clear and lucid fashion than i could ever dream to.
i first read the alchemist about a year and a half ago. i was in a very different frame of mind, a different place in my life. i'm rereading it again and its like i'm seeing things for the first time.
wanted to share something, what coelho describes as the "4 obstacles to happiness".
"There are four obstacles:
First: we are told from childhood onward that everything we want to do is impossible. ... If we have the courage to disinter dream, we are then faced by the second obstacle: love. We know what we want to do, but are afraid of hurting those around us by abandoning everything in order to pursue our dream. ...Once we have accepted that love is a stimulus, we come up against the third obstacle: fear of the defeats we will meet on the path. ... Then comes the fourth obstacle: the fear of realizing the dream for which we fought all our lives.
... But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here."
deep stuff huh? but i think before we can figure out what our obstacles are, we must first figure out what our dream is. i'm not sure what mine is right now.
ok i don't really do resolutions per se. but i do goals. here are my goals for 2010.
1) jump rope better
2) swim better
3) karaoke better
4) never eat junk food when i'm by myself
5) stop trying to analyze absolutely everything and just "go with it"
6) speak tagalog better
7) smile more
8) reconnect with friends who i have lost touch with
9) step outside of my comfort zone more
10) accept what i can't change, and having the balls to change what i can.
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