Author: Joanna Penn
“Most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade.”
Tony Robbins
“Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it.”
Goethe
In ‘The Top Five Regrets of the Dying,’ nurse Bronnie Ware lists the regrets that people have as they transition out of this life.
- I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me
- I wish I hadn’t worked so hard
- I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings
- I wish I had stayed in contact with my friends
- I wish that I’d let myself be happier
One of the most powerful ways to tackle boredom is self-development, which may give you the opportunity to move upwards or outwards from your current situation.
“We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are. Invent yourself every day.”
Anonymous
If you don’t challenge yourself, you will never know what you are capable of.
It may be a risk to pursue a path that ultimately doesn’t lead anywhere but the greater risk is to remain still and go nowhere.
“The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.”
Richard M Devos
“Set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieving it, you become someone worth becoming.”
Jim Rohn
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain