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Sunday Thinking
"Holding yourself accountable is how you move mountains within your growth."
The weekly Sunday Thinking newsletter is quick-hit content that aims to provide a booster shot to your thought process as you end and start your week.
“I hope that when you look back on your life, you have empathy for the well-intentioned version of yourself that didn't always get things right. I hope you give yourself credit for trying, and for persisting, and for showing up even when things didn't go as planned. I hope that as you continue to learn and grow, you also continue to find deeper levels of self-acceptance and self-understanding. I hope you keep the lessons you learned, but leave the guilt and shame behind. I hope you know that every version of you that has ever existed is worth celebrating.”
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I. Allergic to Mediocrity
Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?
Greatness is in the details. Here are 5 habits for sustaining excellence:
Great vision
Growth mindset
Immense curiosity
High level of self-awareness — “It starts within”
Most importantly — the execution and consistency
Never let success get to your head, and never let failure get to your heart.
II. The Value of Friendship
Signs of a deep friend connection:
Laughter is abundant.
Honesty is encouraged.
Support is real and active.
Vulnerability is welcomed.
You can put your guard down.
You inspire each other to grow.
You give each other good advice.
Both of you feel stronger together.
You help each other weather storms.
Source: Yung Pueblo, Lighter
III. Living Without Regrets
Temporary. Everything, all of it, even the best of it, especially the best of it. We only have so many years to know human love, and do human things.
Love them, all of them, even the painstaking ones. They, too, will not last. They are human. They are the experience.
The insecurity? The experience. The heartache? The experience. The confusion? The experience. The joy? The experience. The risk? The experience. There is nothing lost if we learn something from it.
Your willingness to fail is proportionate to your potential to gain and to grow. The timer never stops running. All you will regret is not reaching harder for the things you actually wanted, while they were still in front of you.
Source: Brianna Wiest, The Pivot Year
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V. Question
Where am I playing small out of fear of playing big?
VI. This Week, I Will
Be in the moment.
Let the overthinking go.
Remember, laughter is medicine.
Move my body throughout the day.
Face the tasks I’ve been putting off.
The Last Words…
“I am slowly learning how to just be, in this moment. How to exist. How to understand that I cannot control life, that I can only experience it in both its light and its dark stages. I am slowly learning how to laugh and cry and feel through it all, how to welcome the confusion and the joy that comes with loving, and living, and letting the world crack me open. I am slowly learning how to accept where I am. I am slowly learning how to simply believe in the person I am becoming.”
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