Lifestyle Design Quotes

For everything you do:

“A brief guide to compounding: If you don’t enjoy something, you won’t stick with it. If you don’t stick with it, it won’t compound. Being interested precedes the results.”
James Clear, Blog

52 Compelling Quotes on Freedom To Help You Achieve The Lifestyle You Want

Excerpt: What many people want dearly in life is a sense of freedom. But, most follow confused means to achieve it. These quotes on freedom will help.

“How much of what you did today was simply due to inertia? Never get so busy that you forget to actively design your life.”
Steph Smith, Twitter | Read Matt’s Blog on this quote ➜

“We can’t opt out of monotony, but we can choose which form it takes.”
Chris Guillebeau, The Happiness of Pursuit (Page 150) (Read Matt’s Blog On This Quote)

Delight in a world of your own.

“Everything is interconnected. Gratitude improves sleep. Sleep reduces pain. Reduced pain improves your mood. Improved mood reduces anxiety, which improves focus and planning. Focus and planning help with decision making. Decision making further reduces anxiety and improves enjoyment. Enjoyment gives you more to be grateful for, which keeps that loop of the upward spiral going. Enjoyment also makes it more likely you’ll exercise and be social, which, in turn, will make you happier.”
Daniel J. Siegel, The Upward Spiral

Ryan Holiday Quote on Rules and How They Are The Best and Most Polite Excuse To Living Your Best Life

“Steve Kamb, the founder of Nerd Fitness, told me that the best and most polite excuse is just to say you have a rule. ‘I have a rule that I don’t decide on the phone.’ ‘I have a rule that I don’t accept gifts.’ ‘I have a rule that I don’t speak for free anymore.’ ‘I have a rule that I am home for bath time with the kids every night.’ People respect rules, and they accept that it’s not you rejecting the offer, request, demand, or opportunity, but the rule allows you no choice.”
Ryan Holiday, Medium

Beyond the Quote (266/365)

I have a rule that I don’t eat meat or dairy. I have a rule that I don’t drink alcohol. I have a rule that I don’t do drugs. I have a rule that I only borrow on credit cards what I can pay back at the end of each month. I have a rule that every day I do something for personal growth and something selfless for others. These rules define how I live my life and are undoubtedly some of the best and most polite tools I have to continue living my life this way.

“You have to put your precepts up for display. You have to make them inescapable or else the idea will escape you when it counts.”
Ryan Holiday, Medium

10 Dream Discovering Questions For Women [Excerpt]

The Ten Dream Discovering Questions For Women [Excerpt]

Excerpt: The following is an excerpt from The Gift of a Year by Mira Kirshenbaum. In it she lays out ten dream discovering questions for women that might help reshape the focus of their lives. Enjoy!

The Gift of a Year [Book]

By: Mira Kirshenbaum

From this Book: 25 Quotes

Book Overview: Whether you think of it as a treat or a lifesaver, if you give yourself the gift of a year, it will change your life. This book will show you how to give yourself the gift of a year, piece by piece, step by step. As one woman put it, “Nothing could be simpler. For one year you do something that makes you feel great about yourself and your life.” If you’d like guidance, you’ll get everything you need here. If you need help seeing what you want to do with your special year, you’ll get that. If you need help seeing why you’re entitled to give yourself an entire year, you’ll get that. And if you need help with practical issues, like how to find time or ensure you get everything you want from your year, you’ll get that, too. This is a book about women and how we live our lives today. How we really feel about ourselves. How the way we live can drain the ‘you’ from your life, and how important it is to take care of yourself and to fill your life with more of what truly matters to you.

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Post(s) Inspired by this Book:

25 Replenishing Quotes from The Gift Of A Year on Rest, Recovery, and Self Care
10 Dream Discovering Questions For Women [Excerpt]
Mira Kirshenbaum Quote on Retreating Back So That You Can Keep Moving Forward in Life (Beyond the Quote 258/365)
Mira Kirshenbaum Quote on Self-Care and How Important It Is To Give To Yourself (Beyond the Quote 230/365)

“When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can, owning as little as you possibly can, eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent, to experience what your “worst” lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won’t be afraid of the worst case scenario.”
Kevin Kelly, Blog

Naval Ravikant Quote on Freedom and Living Below Your Means

“People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles can’t fathom.”
Naval Ravikant

Beyond the Quote (184/365)

Most people think that freedom is the absence of responsibility. But, when you look closely, the opposite is actually the case: freedom is a byproduct of responsibility. You can’t be free until you’ve taken proper responsibility for yourself and your life. You can’t even free up the mental resources needed to enjoy said freedom until you’ve covered the bases for your survival, right? How free are you really if you’re starving? How free can you possibly be if you’re without water? Is being free of a house freedom? Or is it a constant threat to your survival and a chronic cage of worry that haunts you? Let’s start by looking at the relationship between freedom and responsibility more closely.

“When we not only automate and routinize the trivial parts of life, but also make automatic good and virtuous decisions, we free up resources to do important and meaningful exploration. We buy room for peace and stillness, and thus make good work and good thoughts accessible and inevitable.”
Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key (Page 205)

“A naively formulated goal transmutes, with time, into the sinister form of the life-lie. One forty-something client told me his vision, formulated by his younger self: ‘I see myself retired, sitting on a tropical beach, drinking margaritas in the sunshine.’ That’s not a plan. That’s a travel poster. After eight margaritas, you’re fit only to await the hangover. After three weeks of margarita-filled days, if you have any sense, you’re bored stiff and self-disgusted. In a year, or less, you’re pathetic. It’s just not a sustainable approach to later life.” ~ Jordan Peterson, via 12 Rules for Life (Page 210)

Instead of trying to solve your whole life, try this:

Atomic Habits [Book]

By: James Clear

From this Book: 44 Quotes

Book Overview: No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving–every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

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