Sometimes All You Need Is A Tiny Flame Of Inspiration

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Over the past week, I’ve been harvesting words that can’t be ignored. I hope they touch you as they’ve touched me.

• “The task of breaking a bad habit is like uprooting a powerful oak within us. The task of building a good habit is like cultivating a delicate flower one day at a time.”
• “The results of our efforts are often delayed.”
• “All big things come from small beginnings.”
• “The seed of every habit is a single tiny decision.”
• “When we repeat 1 percent errors, day after day, by replicating poor decisions, duplicating tiny mistakes, and rationalizing little excuses, our small choices compound into toxic results. It’s the accumulation of missteps — a 1% decline here and there — that eventually leads to a problem.”
• “Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement.”
• “The effects of your habits multiply after you repeat them. They seem to make little difference on any given day, yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous.”
• “Too often, we convince ourselves that massive success requires massive action. False. Massive success only requires consistent tiny action.”
• “A slight change in your daily habits can guide your life to a very different destination. Imagine you are flying from Los Angeles to New York City. If a pilot leaving LAX adjusts the landing just 3.5 degrees south, you will land in Washington D.C. instead of New York.”
• “Be more concerned about your current trajectory than your current results.”
• “If you’re broke, but you save a little bit every month, you’re on the path towards financial freedom — even if you’re moving slower than you like.”
• “If you want to predict where you’ll end up in life, all you have to do is follow the curve of tiny gains or tiny losses and see how your daily choices compound 10 to 20 years from now?”
• When you’re kind to others, you help yourself. When you’re cruel to others, you hurt yourself (Proverbs 11:17)
• The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller (Proverbs 11:24)
• Why do we punish ourselves by thinking that we’re inferior while believing that others are perfect — whether in relationships, recovery, or a specific task (Melody Beattie)?
• The thing about perfection: It’s easy to think that other people’s lives are perfect compared to ours. But the perfection we think we are seeing is usually no more than a facade. It’s like the exterior of a building that takes a whole lot of effort and good lighting to maintain. The inside of a building isn’t usually as pristine, and it’s certainly not perfect. What might happen if you stopped censoring your life to achieve perfection? Who would you be if, instead of striving to present a perfect you to the world, you allowed the world to see who you really are inside (Cyndie Spiegel)?
• When we’re lost, when the way gets dark, sometimes we see things we would never have seen in the daylight. Sometimes the lessons we learn in the darkness are breathtakingly beautiful. Enjoy the sunshine, but trust the darkness, too. It is more than to be endured. It is to be experienced and later cherished (Melody Beattie).
• “All coins have three sides: heads, tails, and the edge. Intelligence is found on the edge of the coin and in the ability to see all sides.”
• “What’s meant to happen always does.”
• “Mistakes are God’s way of talking to you. Mistakes are saying, wake up. Pay attention. There is something you need to know.”
• “Bamboo can barely be seen for the first five years as it builds extensive root systems underground before exploding ninety feet into the air within six weeks. Similarly, habits often appear to make no difference until you cross a critical threshold and unlock a new level of performance.”
• Disentangle from the past: Disentangle yourself from the past to embrace the future. Don’t reside in your childhood, regardless of how wonderful or imperfect it was. Move forward with all of the grace and acceptance you can muster. Let go. Love boldly. Grow. Learn. Then, spread your wings and soar. (Cyndie Spiegel)

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