Your goal in life should be to reduce the amount of time it takes you to get out of a bad state
In the beginning, you need enough courage to practice even though it may not go very well. And over time, as your skills improve, courage transforms into confidence. Courage first, confidence later."
"The only way to develop true confidence is to earn it.
The confidence that you can bounce back from failure is earned by working through previous failures.
The confidence that you can deliver the speech is earned by the previous speeches you have given.
The confidence that you can perform on game day is earned by the previous performances in practice.
“Worrying is like paying a debt
you don’t owe.”
-Mark Twain”
“You must
understand that there is more
than one path to the top of the mountain.”
-Miyamoto Musashi”
“99% of
all failures
come from
people who
have a habit
of making
excuses.”
-George Washington Carver”
“If you think
you’re going to win, it doesn’t mean you’re
going to win. If you think you’re going to lose, you will lose.”
-Peter Thiel”
“When we are
no longer able to change a
situation - we are challenged to change
ourselves.”
-Viktor E. Frankl”
“If you want to know who your
friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”
-Charles Bukowski”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
-Confucius”