Josh Terry

If you’re talented at everything and have trouble deciding which path to pick, practice picking paths. Stop asking yourself what you should be doing and focus on doing it. Even if you’re talented at twenty other things, pick an option and then give yourself the experience of living with that decision for a while. You…

If you never finish your to-do list, remember this. Do smaller things with greater energy. People like to talk about how you need to step up and do more. But it’s often better to just be more harshly realistic about your capabilities. What you can do well is almost always less than what you want…

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If you fail to meet your goals, you must figure out if it’s laziness or addiction. Because if you’re being lazy, you need to do more. And if you’re dealing with an addiction, you need to do less. For example, you might think you’re not getting enough work done because you’re lazy and think the…

The most common block to growth is your environment. Because most things in life are impossible or incredibly difficult. This isn’t a negative perspective. It’s just reality. Most of the universe is an empty void in which you would freeze to death. Most of the world is pretty unforgiving. And you can’t grow when life…

If you see only that which you dream of, you are in a powerful place of action. But never forget that it also means you’re blind to everything else. You must focus, but be careful to relax from time to time and look around, or you will stop knowing what you should focus on. Absolute…

If you hold the belief that you’re worthless and you need to work harder until you know you’re not. Then you have a belief that helps some people work harder and get better results. But others will use it to grind themselves into the dust, thinking they’re worthless no matter what happens, and then exhaust…

Choose life, ugly, messy life. Choose the struggle and the pain. Choose to embrace that you’re a human that wants what it wants, that you won’t get everything you want, but if you decide on something you can do great things. Own that the experience will include suffering and you have the option to enjoy…

If you want to become a more capable person then stop trying to perfect something. Because your goal isn’t the thing. It’s to be better. And usually working trying to tweak something into perfection takes away the attention from the massive improvements you could be making. The more you focus on the thing the less…

Being the best of the best means this. It means you haven’t met somebody better than you yet, or you just didn’t notice when you did. And the fastest way to fall back down is to not look for others who can match you. Because they’re out there. And if you seek them out and…