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12.09.2024

What loose ends need closing?

How does it feel to have these?

Why do you have them?

What can you do right now to close them?

Often, we leave loose ends behind us.

They will come to bite us.

They will hold us back.

Closing them now is for the better.

Start small and keep at it.


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11.09.2024

How often do you forget things?

Why do you do it?

Why does it happen?

How do you feel?

How often do other people forget?

How do you react to it?

Forgetting things is human.

Most of the time it is not on purpose.

The forgetful will feel shame.

Consider this.

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10.09.2024

How do you deal with rejection?

How personal do you take it?

How hard does it hit you?

How often can you try?

Rejection is part of life.

We experience it daily.

Some more than others.

Some can stomach more, some less.

Sometimes it hurts more, sometimes less.

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09.09.2024

How well do you understand the meaning of words?

How often do you use words you do not understand?

How often are the words you say hollow?

How do you feel after it?

We are quick to use words we do not understand.

We use them to sound smarter than we are.

We use them to manipulate.

We use them to cover up.

Is it worth lying to yourself?

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08.09.2024

Have you taken charge of your life?

Do you know what you like?

Do you know what you do not like?

Do you make suggestions?

Or do you go along with anything?

Taking charge of your choices is paramount.

If you do not, then life makes them for you.

One area in life affects the others.

Be a doormat in one and suffer the consequences in others.

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07.09.2024

Do you grab an opportunity by its neck?

How do you know it is the right one?

How long do you take for a decision?

Who should you ask for advice?

If you have no second guesses, take it.

The right opportunity will feel right.

Then there is no need to drag it out.

If there is a way back, even more so.

If there is not a way back, it warrants caution.

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06.09.2024

How do you perceive your hardships?

Why do you see it in that way?

What did you learn?

What do you have in life due to it?

We often only see the hard side of hardship.

Yet we ignore the ship that sails into the future.

Hardship is a resource.

It is the wind that makes your ship sail faster.

Don't labor on the oars, harness the wind.

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05.09.2024

What is it worth?

What is it worth to you?

What is it worth to someone else?

What is the market value?

The worth of things can be very emotional.

The price is often very subjective.

The market value is debatable.

Buyers and sellers are often irrational.

Is it even worth your time and effort?

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04.09.2024

Did you explain yourself properly?

Why were you not understood?

How can you make the other understand?

How often does this happen to you?

It is your job to get your message across.

If another misunderstands, try again...

and again, till the message hits home.

Getting angry won't help you.

Explain what you need politely.

You shall be amazed afterward.

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03.09.2024

How do you know if the truth is told?

How often are you right?

Is the truth a thing of black and white?

Do you always have a right to the truth?

Often we are not told the truth.

Often we are told half the truth.

People tell their perspectives.

So how do we find the truth?

When do you need to know the truth?

Search for the truth where it counts.

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02.09.2024

What do you feel entitled to?

Why do you believe you are?

How does it feel to expect nothing?

Why shackle yourself with entitlement?

Believing you are entitled to anything,

is like shackling yourself.

For those who feel entitled become victims.

Those who expect nothing are truly free.

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01.09.2024

How tired are you?

Why are you tired?

What could you change?

Being exhausted hampers your progress.

It also hampers your contentment.

And it makes your decisions worse.

Do you eat well?

Do you sleep enough?

Is there mold in your flat?

Do you drink enough?

And so on...

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31.08.2024

You are facing a huge problem.

What do you do?

What is the optimal solution?

How can you tackle the issue?

Big problems are daunting.

So much so, that we freeze.

Often, there is a simple first solution.

This action will create freedom to move.

Freedom to work on the optimal solution.

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30.08.2024

How do you react to others struggling?

Can you show compassion?

Can you support them?

Do you get annoyed by it?

Why do you react the way you do?

We all struggle at some point.

We all have our demons to fight.

Some days it is worse than others.

Have patience when it is a hard period.

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29.08.2024

Do you know your limits?

How often do you challenge your limits?

By how much do you challenge them?

The right amount or too much?

Knowing your limits is important.

Challenging them even more so.

Too much may have dire consequences.

Challenge yourself just a little every day.

This ensures sustainable growth.

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27.08.2024

How often do you postpone taking action?

Why do you usually postpone tasks?

What is the consequence of it?

Postponing can have terrible downsides,

jet sometimes the upsides are amazing.

The secret lies in why you postpone.

Does doing it feel wrong?

Or are you overwhelmed?

Or are you too demotivated?

When you want to postpone,

ask yourself why,

take control of what you do.

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26.08.2024

How busy are you?

What does your calendar look like?

How much do you value productivity?

How much are you alone?

Do you take time for yourself to just be?

We fill our days, with all kinds of activities.

Some more active and some passive.

How often do you sit with yourself?

Take time to ponder upon your existence.

It is a valuable exercise often done too little.

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24.08.2024

How easily can you concentrate?

Does your concentration get broken often?

How do you react to it?

Can you get back into it quickly?

Do you respect others' concentration?

Getting concentrated is hard.

Getting concentrated takes time.

Breaking others' concentration is disrespectful.

Honor the focused state of mind,

for it is what reaps results and happiness.

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23.08.2024

How often do you get stuck in a rut?

Doing the same thing again and again?

Are you getting the results you want?

Are you able to recognize it?

How soon? And do you act on it?

We tend to get stuck in a rut.

In a rut that reaps no results.

But the rut is comfortable.

It is familiar to us and makes us cozy.

Get out of the rut. Try something new.

For the rut leads nowhere anyway,

so what is there to lose?

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22.08.2024

How do you handle hardship?

How do you feel while dealing with it?

How do you view hardship?

We all experience hardship.

Some more and some less,

yet still we all do.

We tend to moan about it.

We tend to avoid it if we can.

Hardship is a resource.

It is the pathway to improve.

Fall in love with your challenges.

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