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Paul Gillin Quote on ROI and How To Maximize Your Return On Investments in Life

    “When you say ROI, do you mean return on investment or risk of inaction?”

    Paul Gillin

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    Why do we push ourselves physically? Maybe so that we might better appreciate our physical normal. Why do we travel far from home? Maybe so that we can return home with fresh eyes. Why are we encouraged constantly to grow and expand our minds? Maybe so that we might have a better understanding of the world. Why do we ever do anything outside of our comfort zone? Maybe it’s so that we can expand our zone of comfort for the rest of the time we’re not outside of it?

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      “Sophisticated foods are bittersweet (wine, beer, coffee, chocolate). Addictive relationships are cooperative and competitive. Work becomes flow at the limits of ability. The flavor of life is on the edge.”

      Naval Ravikant, Medium

      Jordan Peterson Quote on Self-Discovery and Why You Should Come Out From Hiding To Find Yourself

        “If you will not reveal yourself to others, you cannot reveal yourself to yourself.  That does not only mean that you suppress who you are, although it also means that.  It means that so much of what you could be will never be forced by necessity to come forward.  This is a biological truth, as well as a conceptual truth.  When you explore boldly, when you voluntarily confront the unknown, you gather information and build your renewed self out of that information.”

        Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 212)

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        Staying in hiding doesn’t only keep you hidden from the world—it keeps you hidden from yourself. For, as long as you stay hidden from the world, the lessons of the world will remain hidden from you. I can assure you, the lessons of the world will not come knocking at your door or come waltzing into your designated place of hiding. These lessons are only to be found OUT in the world and they must be pursued and captured.

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        Yoda Quote on Facing Your Fears

          Yoda Quote on Facing Your Fears

          “Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”

          Yoda

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          Many times we don’t even realize that we’re living in fear. When we find our comforts, we get comfortable living with them. It’s instinctual. It’s natural. It’s how we’re wired and what we’re drawn to. We’re living in a sort-of primal state of constant pleasure seeking and pain avoidance. Why wouldn’t that be the case? Who actually would want to seek out fear? Confront fear? Work to overcome fear? It’s scary! It’s uncomfortable! There’s so much resistance! You’d have to have a really good reason to do any of that.

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            We’re all on journeys, and sometimes we spend so much time on and invest so much energy in heading in one direction that the idea of any other direction is both foreign and frightening.  Our journeys themselves become comfort zones, and sometimes hopping off one rainbow and onto the next is exactly what we need.  Other times we may realize that the path we were on helped reveal the path we should be on, and that adventure of twists and turns will last our lifetime, and that’s okay.  No one needs to have everything figured out, and honestly, nobody really does, even if their social media posts present a different picture.” ~ Humble the Poet, Things No One Else Can Teach Us (Page 115)

              “People, including children (who are people too, after all), don’t seek to minimize risk.  They seek to optimize it.  They drive and walk and love and play so that they achieve what they desire, but they push themselves a bit at the same time, too, so they continue to develop.  Thus, if things are made too safe, people (including children) start to figure out ways to make them dangerous again.” ~ Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 287)

                “You are by no means only what you already know.  You are also all that which you could know, if you only would.  Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are.  You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.” ~ Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 223)

                  “We are all fighting the same battle.  All of us are torn between comfort and performance, between settling for mediocrity or being willing to suffer in order to become our best self, all the damn time.  We make those kinds of decisions a dozen or more times each day.” ~ David Goggins, Can’t Hurt Me

                    “Whether we’re talking about mental or physical effort, the first step to embracing the suck is to step up and face your fear of suffering.  We all share this fear, which stems from a deep-rooted need for certainty and security.  Pain is your body’s way of telling you that security is threatened because something is out of whack.  However, when you consistently experience the personal growth that accrues from deliberately putting yourself out of balance, such as with hard workouts, you begin to embrace that temporary pain for the rewards it brings.  The fear recedes into oblivion as you embrace the suck.” ~ Mark Divine, The Way of the Seal

                      “Comfort imprisons us in a low-grade fear of suffering.  We naturally shy from things that hurt, not understanding how much this pattern debilitates us and keeps us from experiencing life at its fullest.  We must define our comfort zone, and then get the heck out of it!” ~ Mark Divine, The Way of the Seal