Because if you don’t bring yourself a better future, who will? — This is not something that’s easy — if it was, you probably wouldn’t be reading this. When you invest your time, energy and effort into something or someone, you trust that everything will work out, you believe that your investment will grow and compound, and continue to bring value to…

Otherwise they will hold you back for the rest of your life — Sometimes it feels impossible to stop yourself from judging someone or something, sometimes it just comes out of you. Like that reckless driver who almost crashes into you Or the frustrating people in your life who only care about themselves Or the unfulfilling job keeping you behind a screen all…

Find a way to make use of everything — What is the best way to face life? What’s the best way to endure suffering and make sense of life’s uncertainty? Everyone has an answer to that and they each live their answers every day. …

Accept your lot of life and turn it into something better — If you could be anyone on this planet, who would you be? It’s an interesting question to consider, don’t you think? This was one of my favorite questions to ask my friends when I was a teenager. I didn’t know why, it just felt like good fun to imagine being…

There’s a better way to build relationships — We all look up to people It’s difficult not to because there are people out there doing some amazing things. Some people create art, like poetry, music and movies Some people create a different kind of art and grow some revolutionary companies Some people blow your mind with how far…

You can live a good life without drowning in anxiety — We’re all made to believe that life needs to be taken seriously And if we don’t, then terrible things would probably happen, things that would make this life difficult and unbearable. If we don’t get educated, then we’re going to live 10 steps behind everyone else If we don’t get…

You won’t find your true self by wanting others to recognize and acknowledge you — We all have a part of us that wants to be recognized We may not want it all the time nor would we admit when we want it, but there’s some part of us that wants recognition, that wants to be validated and acknowledged. We want it from our loved…

Or be defeated by it — the choice is yours… — Inferiority is a sensitive subject It’s not really something we openly talk about with one another. …

Be honest with yourself in tragedy or your suffering will never end — It’s so easy to fool yourself — you may not even notice when you do I really am loving The Courage to be Disliked, by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga. …