Most "drama" are born between people who fell in love with the comfort of lowering their standards until they started blaming each other for not living the life they wanted. #orangebook #Relationships #Standards #Expectations

Getting physically, mentally, spiritually healthy is a natural consequence of genuinely caring about the people you love. Your family and friends want to hang out with the version of yourself that is full of energy, confidence, self-love, not the one that is constantly tired, anxious, self-hating. The quality of your relationships is actually the quality of your self-focus. #orangebook #Health #Relationships #SelfLove

The worst circumstances actually teach you how to appreciate the best circumstances, you just need to stay mentally resilient, believe in your ability to relearn who you are, and execute on a long-term plan that will lead you there. #orangebook #Resilience #Mindset #Planning

Taking risks is actually therapy. #orangebook #RiskTaking #Therapy #MentalHealth

Counterintuitively, you will actually feel "busy" all the time as long as you don't have a clear goal, and you will naturally become more efficient and get much more done once you have plenty of meaningful goals, because you will learn to trim the fat and focus on what matters. #orangebook #GoalSetting #Productivity #Efficiency

So much of getting luckier as you get older boils down to the quality of your everyday conversations, hence to the quality of the person you married. #orangebook #Luck #Conversations #Relationships

People who lack the courage to act love to come up with statistics about how most businesses fail, most marriages fail, how they are already too old, how they were not blessed with "talent," but if they actually had the intelligence to think about their problems with more depth, they'd quickly realize that most businesses fail because most people are ignorant yet arrogant, most marriages fail because most people are not even in a healthy relationship with themselves, and that when it comes to age and talent, the real problem was precisely that mindset that they always had ever since they were younger, and also their inability to unlearn and relearn the way they saw the world and tackled their problems. No one overthinks as much as a coward who chooses to play the victim about where they are in life. #orangebook #Courage #Mindset #Victimhood

If you have enough energy to worry about it, it means your focus is insufficient, it means you are not truly serious about your goals, otherwise, all your energy would be spent on increasing your chances of success, with none left for making pessimistic scenarios in your mind. #orangebook #Focus #Goals #Success

Relationships are actually quite simple if you don’t have the bad habit of closing your eyes when people show you who they are. #orangebook #Relationships #Honesty #Perception

If you spend most of your time telling other people what to do, you are around the wrong people. #orangebook #Leadership #Management #Teamwork

So many parents do the thinking for their kids, protect them instead of educating them, give them advantages instead of teaching them how to position themselves intelligently, doubt and worry about them instead of trusting and believing in them, then years later, wonder why their kids are mentally weak, insecure, entitled. A good parent gives hints and raises awareness around the available resources, they don’t walk the journey for their kids. #orangebook #Parenting #ChildDevelopment #Mentorship

Sadly, most people don’t really want to fix their problems, they feel proud of being busy and having fires to put out all the time (even if it’s due to their own incompetence or arrogance), they want to play the victim, they want to have their “feelings heard.” You want sustainable peace of mind, build relationships with problem solvers, not drama makers. #orangebook #ProblemSolving #Mindset #VictimMentality

Anxiety is reality telling you that you are not walking in the right direction in life, don’t ignore that voice, or it only gets louder as you get older. #orangebook #Anxiety #LifeDirection #SelfAwareness

You don’t impose your standards of self-discipline and hard work on others, you apply them to your own life, and you naturally attract the like-minded people that you deserve. #orangebook #SelfDiscipline #HardWork #AttractLike

Small minds mindlessly seek external stimulation. Great minds intently seek internal creativity. Average minds know they should be creating, but never gather enough self-discipline to get started, and effectively spend their whole lives just consuming. #orangebook #Mindset #Creativity #Self-discipline

You offend so many people when you choose to not remain your default mediocre self. #orangebook #Authenticity #Selfimprovement #Mediocrity

It's always the people with little talent who spend their time criticizing others, talented people know better how to focus on their own efforts, that's how they got where they are; to be average is actually a choice, the choice of being distracted by the lives of others. #orangebook #Talent #Criticism #Focus

There is no such thing as people who struggle to maintain meaningful friendships as they get older, only people who lack the self-awareness to notice that they are too emotionally distant for them to attract thoughtful, loyal, loving people. #orangebook #Friendships #Self-awareness #EmotionalDistance

It's actually very easy to spend all your time working and being dedicated to work, the hard part is to do it while still being a good parent to your children, a good spouse to your husband/wife, a good son/daughter to your old parents with whom you have less time than you think. #orangebook #WorkLife #Parenting #Family

People with bad taste always act like a healthy lifestyle requires so much self-discipline and effort, when healthy food is actually the tastiest (if you are already healthy), regular workouts are one of the most enjoyable moments of your day (if you are already fit), and a good sleep schedule is only natural and effortless (if you are not spending your days glued to a screen and are actually living life.) #orangebook #HealthyLifestyle #SelfDiscipline #Food