Comments on: What piece of advice changed your life the most?

By: Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:30:54 +0000

You miss 100% of the shots you never take.

By: Gene

Gene — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:45:51 +0000

My dad told me very early on;Brother (my nickname) you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit even if you use Hellmann’s. Never forgot it and always think about it when making decisions. He was also very big on “You can’t fight facts, by definition they’re indisputable”. Pretty pragmatic guy.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:32:04 +0000

Oh yeah, and the Deli Lama: “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

By: Sheila

Sheila — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:31:32 +0000

If I wrote down all the good advice I’ve had, it would fill a book. But what’s helped me a lot recently is “Change habits one at a time.”

By: annie

annie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:00:38 +0000

“be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle” -plato
(or as my friend pam says: do you want to be right or kind?”

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:04:03 +0000

The greatest piece of advice I have ever learned comes from this quote: Take the first step–no more, no less–then the next will be revealed. Perhaps many will not grasp the wisdom behind this word but I saw through it.

Everything we need is right before us yet we are blind to see them. The reason is that we navigate though past and future, we never really live in the present. This is why we miss the answers and opportunities that we seek.

By: Vlad Dolezal

Vlad Dolezal — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:54:20 +0000

@Eden:

That’s a great one. Most people don’t realize how much our bodies influence how our minds feel.

@Kamya:

That is an awesome piece of wisdom. I actually wrote a blog post recently on a very similar note, and when I finished it I thought it was so awesome, I’d offer it to the big blogs as a guest post. With any luck, they’ll publish it soon

@Shadowart:

Yes, you are.

@Smilingmind:

*mind blank*

@Salman:

Ah yea, I also love quoting myself

I love the second quote you gave. I think I first read it on the Zenhabits “about” page.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:17:17 +0000

A former housemate gave me this little gem, which she inherited from her mother…
“What you tolerate, you deserve.”

By: Salman

Salman — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:52:51 +0000

There is always a sunrise after every darkness. (My own quote, which I made up this morning after watching a beautiful sunrise!)

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

By: Smilingmind

Smilingmind — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 02:05:32 +0000

Too much thinking complicates things….let go what’s inside.