Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

In difficult times, carry something beautiful in your heart.

Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. Learn from the past, shape a better future.

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Books

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History

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Philosophy

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Mindfulness

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Motivation & Inspiration

10 Inspirational Quotes from History’s Greatest Thinkers

Small actions can lead to significant outcomes. A tiny change in your routine, like a morning walk, can drastically improve your mental health over time.

The Butterfly Effect

Cherishing small moments, such as a warm cup of coffee or a sunset, helps you stay grounded and appreciate life’s simple pleasures.

Appreciating the Present

Practicing mindfulness makes you aware of the little things around you. Gratitude journals help in recognizing these small yet impactful elements of life.

Mindfulness and Gratitude

Viewing failure as feedback rather than defeat helps you learn and grow. Each setback becomes an opportunity for improvement.

Reframing Failure as Feedback

Small, consistent efforts lead to significant achievements. Whether it’s learning a new skill or building a habit, every tiny step counts.

Incremental Progress

A smile can brighten someone’s day and improve your mood. It’s a small gesture with profound impact.

The Power of a Smile

Small acts of kindness, like holding the door for someone or giving a compliment, create a ripple effect of positivity.

Acts of Kindness

Overcoming small challenges strengthens your resilience. Each victory, no matter how minor, builds your confidence to face bigger obstacles.

Building Resilience

Surprising a friend with a note or a small gift can create lasting memories and strengthen your relationships.

The Joy of Little Surprises

Accepting and cherishing imperfections in yourself and others fosters a more compassionate and realistic outlook on life.

Embracing Imperfections

Believing that abilities and intelligence can be developed through dedication and hard work transforms failures into learning experiences.

Cultivating a Growth Mindset

"In the grand tapestry of life, it’s the small threads that weave the most intricate patterns."

Unlocking Joy and Growth in Everyday Moments. By recognizing and valuing the small things, you can transform your perspective on failure and learn to cherish every moment of life.

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Personal Development

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Habits

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Mental Health

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Meditation

The Hidden Power of Small Things: Reframing Failure and Cherishing Life

- The foundation of all success is the belief in one's ability to achieve their goals. Positive belief leads to positive action.

1. Believe You Can Succeed and You Will

- Avoid making excuses and take responsibility for your actions and outcomes. Excuses are a barrier to success.

2. Cure Yourself of Excusitis, the Failure Disease

- Confidence is essential for success. Overcome fear by taking action and focusing on positive outcomes.

3. Build Confidence and Destroy Fear

- Set high goals and aspirations. Thinking big helps to expand your horizons and motivates you to achieve more.

4. Think Big

- Your self-image determines your success. Think positively about yourself and visualize your success.

5. You Are What You Think You Are

- Surround yourself with positive influences and environments that support your goals. Avoid negativity and mediocrity.

6. Manage Your Environment: Go First Class

- A positive attitude attracts success. Cultivate attitudes that support your goals and aspirations.

7. Make Your Attitudes Your Allies

- Treat others with respect and kindness. Good relationships are crucial for success in both personal and professional life.

8. Think Right Toward People

- Success comes from taking action. Avoid procrastination and develop a habit of taking consistent, purposeful action.

9. Get the Action Habit

- Learn from setbacks and failures. Use them as opportunities for growth and improvement rather than reasons to give up.

10. Turn Defeat into Victory

The Magic of Thinking Big

When we describe ourselves, we often use common phrases. However, these phrases only scratch the surface. Let's dig deeper.It will be the first step towards <a href="https://deepstash.com/article/225904/starting-a-new-life-the-first-rule">a "new life."</a>

Deep Knowledge

The best way to write a diary is by using questioning. I print it on my computer and then show the text to GPT, asking it to act like a psychologist and make some further questions. This helps me to delve deeper every day. Try it. Here is my prompt: Act like a professional psychologist. I will answer the random question "...?" Highlight any solutions I have found in my journal entry. Then ask additional questions that will help me find techniques to overcome the situation. Finally, suggest practices that can improve the situation.

Personal Diary

Sometimes it's a great idea to describe yourself in a scheme, to remember that we are bigger than a flat picture. Not just a professional, but a nice friend (are you?), an artist, a writer, a sportsman and also a person with unique characteristics.

Mind Map

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">You could ask people to describe you. If you decide to, pick the closest people to you so you can gain feedback based on deep communication.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Another option is to speak about yourself with the help of professionals such as psychologists and coaches.</li><li class="ql-align-justify"> </li></ul>

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The third way is to take a test. But remember that it will held to common conclusions, not individual. The most popular is test Myers-Briggs.

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Longevity

How to find out who you are right now

Matthew McConaughey introduces the concept of “greenlights”—those moments when life gives you the go-ahead. He explains how recognizing these signs can help you seize opportunities and navigate challenges.

Finding Greenlights in Life

McConaughey shares stories of setbacks and “redlights” that initially seem like obstacles but ultimately guide him to better paths. He emphasizes the importance of viewing failures as necessary detours.

Embracing Failures as Redlights

He talks about his habit of keeping journals for over 35 years. Writing down his thoughts, dreams, and experiences helps him reflect, learn, and grow, turning personal reflections into greenlights.

The Power of Journaling

McConaughey highlights the importance of being true to oneself. He describes how authenticity in his personal and professional life has led to more fulfilling and meaningful experiences.

Living Authentically

He shares valuable lessons from his parents, including resilience, hard work, and self-reliance. These lessons shape his character and guide him through life’s ups and downs.

Lessons from Family

McConaughey discusses his career in Hollywood, including the challenges of typecasting and his decision to break away from romantic comedies. His bold choices open doors to more diverse and rewarding roles.

Navigating Hollywood

Throughout his life, McConaughey takes calculated risks that often lead to unexpected success. He encourages readers to embrace uncertainty and take chances to discover new opportunities.

The Magic of Taking Risks

He talks about balancing work, family, and personal passions. McConaughey stresses the importance of prioritizing what truly matters and making time for self-care and reflection.

Finding Balance

Success is not just about fame or wealth for McConaughey. He redefines success as living a life aligned with one’s values, passions, and purpose, finding joy in the journey rather than the destination.

Redefining Success

Faith plays a significant role in McConaughey’s life. He shares how his belief in something greater than himself provides guidance, strength, and a sense of purpose.

Role of Faith

McConaughey encourages readers to pursue their passions relentlessly. His own experiences show that following one’s heart can lead to a more fulfilling and authentic life.

Pursuing Passions

Persistence is a recurring theme in McConaughey’s journey. He emphasizes the importance of staying committed and pushing through challenges to achieve long-term goals.

The Value of Persistence

Humou is a vital coping mechanism for McConaughey. He shares how laughter and a positive attitude help him navigate difficult times and keep things in perspective.

Finding Humour in Life

He talks about the importance of learning from mentors, peers, and even strangers. Wisdom can be found in unexpected places, and staying open to new perspectives is crucial.

Learning from Others

McConaughey concludes by highlighting the inevitability of change. Embracing change, adapting, and growing from new experiences are essential for personal and professional growth.

Embracing Change

Now first off I want to thank God, because that's who I look up to. He has graced my life with opportunities that I know are not of my hand or of any human hand. He has shown me that it is a scientific fact that gratitude reciprocates

Dive into “Greenlights” by Matthew McConaughey, where life’s greenlights guide a journey of seizing opportunities, embracing failures, and living authentically.

From the Academy Award®-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call 'catching greenlights.' So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It's a love letter. To life. It's also a guide to catching more greenlights-and to realising that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck.

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Movies & Shows

Matthew McConaughey

Greenlights

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

He who is brave is free.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Seneca is one of the greatest stoic philosophers ever. Here are my ten favorites quotes of his.

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Problem Solving

Stoic Philosopher - Seneca's Greatest Quotes

I had three good friends when I was in middle school.We were inseparable. But l ike many inseparable things, life cut through our bonds. We got to high school, and seeing each other became harder. Then, I started my first long relationship. And as many first relationships, we became toxic towards each other.

What Leads to Loneliness?

I put her in first place in front of my friends. And she did the same. So, after 5 years, it finished. And I was alone.I had nothing — no friends, no parties, and no fun. It felt like a meteor crushed my reality. And for many days, I thought I couldn’t make it.

What Is Loneliness

Making friends at university is challenging. Everyone has their groups of friends they meet on Saturday nights. But I didn’t.Loneliness was always there with me. It hid behind a fake smile, waiting for me to get home. And when I did, it hit me.But I managed to get over it. And I want to share how because I see many people struggle like I did. It could help you get over your lonely moments too.So, here’s what to do when you feel alone.

Getting Over It

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First thing — don’t panic.Many people today think loneliness is an illness they have to cure. But that’s the wrong way to see it.Feeling lonely once in a while is <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179015/">completely normal</a>. One in four people are lonely regularly. And usually, our feelings seem worse than they are because of the society we live in.<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Everyone seems happy on their social accounts.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Our social profiles seem like the exact image of our lives.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Our brains get used to <a href="https://www.cosmopolitanmindset.com/delayed-gratification-to-help-improve-your-life/">instant gratification</a>.</li></ul>

Accept Loneliness Before Its Cure (1)

And we don’t have any experience managing our mood when we feel nostalgia or loneliness.We try so hard to get over those feelings that we never get to experience them. But it’s ok to cry sometimes. I cried many times when I felt alone. But I don’t feel shame. I feel grateful for experiencing my lowest low. Now I know I don’t want to get there again. Accepting it makes you stronger. It prepares you for those moments when social networks won’t distract you anymore. Or when you’ll have to be strong and supportive of others even if you feel lonely.But how do you accept loneliness?

Accept Loneliness Before Its Cure (2)

You accept loneliness when you accept its existence.I know it sounds like a stupid sentence. But think about it!Loneliness is an emotion. And all emotions have an expiration date.

Loneliness is an Emotion (1)

Every time you get through those dark times, remember these features. Loneliness is an emotion:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">with an expiration date</li><li class="ql-align-justify">that you can’t control</li><li class="ql-align-justify">that happens whenever it wants</li><li class="ql-align-justify">and ends whenever it wants.</li></ul>So don’t fight it. Accept it. Deal with it. And it will pass faster.Or, if you want to accelerate the process, there’s a facilitator that helped me a lot in the past — anger.

Loneliness is an Emotion (2)

Anger is a negative emotion. But it has its advantages. Otherwise, why would it resist evolution?Loneliness destroys your mood. It makes you give up and feel pity. But anger forces you to wake up and react. When used properly, anger reinvigorates your mood and replaces your loneliness. It doesn’t last forever. But it works. And it can also transform into motivation.

The Power of Anger

Loneliness generates pity. And pity triggers anger. But if you haven’t matured that loneliness long enough, your anger won’t help for too long.It will motivate some of your actions. But it won’t last.Many times, when I felt lonely, I solved it with anger. And it motivated me to work out to get in shape. It helped me study to pass my exams. But that motivation never lasts more than a week. Over time, these failures became unbearable. I felt useless. And that’s when something inside me broke forever.

Your Breaking Point Is The Starting Point (1)

Once loneliness broke my spirit, I only had two choices:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">I could give up and accept my situation.</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Or I could use the pain and anger to build a better version of myself. </li></ul>But this time, the motivation was different. It came from a surviving necessity.The pain became too much and the anger too strong. I wanted to prove to people I was worth their time. And that’s when everything changed for me.That's when everything changes.

Your Breaking Point Is The Starting Point (2)

You picked the second option. Otherwise, you won’t be here.So, you are broke. But, good news! It can’t get worse. You might have reached rock bottom. Now, you can use the pain you feel in the chest to become a better person.In the <a href="https://cosmopolitanmindset.substack.com/p/your-next-6-months">next six months </a>, you could become a stranger. But you must start with one small improvement and commit to it.Motivation builds up over time if you pick the right habit and stick to it. So, choose something simple, almost impossible to miss. But it has to improve your life in some way.

Defeat Loneliness with Your Motivation (1)

Here’s a short list of habits you might want to use:<ul><li class="ql-align-justify">Make your bed every morning (organizational) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Drink a glass of water first thing in the morning (healthy) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Sleep at least 7/8 hours (healthy) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Write a to-do list every morning (organizational) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Make an emotional check-in every evening (healthy) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Take a walk every day (healthy) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Read at least 10 pages every day (organizational) .</li><li class="ql-align-justify">Exercise/meditate every day (healthy) .</li></ul>Once you master one of these habits, you can build more on top of it. Your motivation will grow. Your willpower will strengthen. And you will attract more people.

Defeat Loneliness with Your Motivation (2)

Confidence will be the final breath of loneliness.Your new habits will make you a better person. Better people attract new opportunities and curiosity from their peers. But you have to keep that interest high until you bond with them. So, confidence is not enough — storytelling is fundamental.But what’s the difference? And why do you need both?

The Final Breath of Loneliness (1)

<ul><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="https://cosmopolitanmindset.substack.com/p/the-art-of-confidence">Confidence </a>is the courage to interact with people and catch new opportunities.</li><li class="ql-align-justify"><a href="https://cosmopolitanmindset.substack.com/p/3-simple-rules-to-boost-your-storytelling">Storytelling </a>is how you keep people hooked.</li></ul>You won’t escape loneliness without confidence. And it will be challenging to keep people’s interest without decent storytelling skills. So, improve them both after your health and organization.That’s what will make you escape loneliness.

The Final Breath of Loneliness (2)

I don’t want to lie to you. Escaping loneliness might be the most challenging task you will ever have to fight.It might take you six months. It might take you two years or more. But nobody stays alone forever. The world’s too crowded for you to remain alone forever. Yet, you must get on the right track to improve your life and attract more people. So this week, do some research. Find three books you will read to escape loneliness: one about habits, one about confidence, and the last about storytelling.[<a href="https://cosmopolitanmindset.substack.com/p/how-do-i-stop-feeling-lonely">DOWNLOAD</a> THE FREE INFOGRAPHIC]

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Do you feel lonely? Discover how I overcame loneliness and found a connection with new people in the past. Follow my lead and improve your life.

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Health

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there is a huge difference betwen job and calling. job is something you choose; calling is something for which you are chosen

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

True strength is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.

A Daily Quote can provide a quick boost of inspiration and motivation, helping people start their day on a positive note. It also encourage reflection and mindfulness, allowing individuals to pause and consider deeper truths and perspectives.

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Daily Random Quotes

A 1% improvement in something barely noticeable (sometimes even invisible) can actually be much more meaningful, especially over the long term. What starts as a small victory or minor setback can accumulate into something much larger.

It doesn't matter how successful or unsuccessful you are right now. What matters is whether your habits are putting you on a path towards success or not.

Achieving goals only changes your life momentarily. This is counterintuitive to improvement. What we really need to change are the systems that produce those results.

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