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Motivation Flashcards

1
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Decide…

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once.

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2
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Do the next…

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best thing.

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3
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Don’t let perfect be…

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the enemy of the good.

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4
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Let your space define…

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what you own.

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5
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Create buffers/margin.

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Time, money, space, etc.

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6
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A daily routine resets…

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your home to a level of basic order.

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7
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Self-control is temporary.

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Environment is more important for long-term habit changing.

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8
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What is measured is…

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improved (or managed).

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9
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Focus more on your _____ than your goals.

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Systems

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10
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Simplifying (habits, home, finances) doesn’t eliminate life’s problems. But it can reduce…

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how far the “pendulum swings” in the wrong direction.

Examples:
Reduces extremes (bad things happen but things don’t get as bad as they could get).
Makes life’s problems easier to handle.

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Curate your…

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life.

Curate - select, organize, and look after items.

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12
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Embrace things you used to…

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run away from.

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13
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Boiling Point

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Sometimes it takes time to get to the boiling point. Every rise in degree matters when boiling water but there won’t be an observable change until it changes from 211 to 212 degrees. Don’t give up early!

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14
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Small steps

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Remember the importance of small steps. Think of the picture on the fridge!

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15
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Kaizen

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Japanese term for “continuous improvement” or “change for the better.”

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16
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If you wait until you feel like doing something…

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you will likely never accomplish it.

John C. Maxwell

17
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You will never change your life until you change…

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something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

John C. Maxwell

18
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You can act your way…

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into feeling much quicker than you can feel your way into acting.

19
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The best preparation for tomorrow is…

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doing your best today.

20
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe…

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are different from the things we do.

Freya Stark

21
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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be…

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useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

22
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness…

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bestowed by a small compliment.

23
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Only a mediocre person is…

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always at his best.

24
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What you think means more than…

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anything else in your life.

25
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If you are depressed you are living…

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in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

26
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You’re picky about the car you drive, about what you wear, and what you put in your mouth… Be pickier about what you _____.

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Think.

Abraham Hicks

27
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Philippians 4:8

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And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

28
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Ecclesiastes 11:6

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Plant your seed in the morning and keep busy all afternoon, for you don’t know if profit will come from one activity or another - or maybe both.

29
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Create little “bumpers.”

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Similar to buffers. Absorbs small risks while keeping you clear of catastrophe.

30
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It’s usually much more straightforward to learn from your ________ than your ________.

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Successes, failures. If you succeed you can reasonably assume you made good decisions in your pursuit of the goal. But if you failed, it could be for any number of reasons. It’s unclear exactly what went wrong making it difficult to learn how to improve. Building on what you’re doing right can be more effective than focusing on what you did wrong.

From a TEDEd video

31
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Experience is not what happens to you; it is _______________.

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what you do with what happens to you.

Aldous Huxley

32
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Relapsing is a part ___________.

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of the process.

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