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

You save so much time and energy once your relationships are with confident people. You never have to worry about whether facts might accidentally offend them. You can be yourself, they can be themselves. Everyone can focus on meaningful goals instead of each other’s feelings. #orangebook #Relationships #Confidence #Authenticity

Mentally strong people are just people who refused to believe that giving up was ever an option. #orangebook #MentalStrength #Resilience #Mindset

So many people with the best intentions fail to be good parents because they never understood that education was never about telling their kids what to do, but about the efforts, the values, the ambitions they embodied in their daily lives. You won't raise an emotionally healthy, mentally strong, bold and confident kid unless you are such a person first. #orangebook #Parenting #Education #Values

People often complain about being too busy when they should actually question their own inefficiency. Most people waste so much time on conversations with no depth, entertainment with no substance, investments with no conviction (or no investment at all), and then, when life finally catches up to the quality of their decisions, they play the victim and act "surprised" by how unfair life is. Some people actually have it all: a loving family, loyal friends, a creative job, financial freedom, fitness and health, a meaningful journey, but it didn't happen overnight, and it was the product of long-term calculated risks, independent thinking rooted in self-belief, and a lot of humble daily training and preparation for the rainy days, but also for the life-changing opportunities that never seemed obvious when they came. #orangebook #TimeManagement #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement

People don't lose touch with their family and friends throughout the years because they are too busy, they just get lazy and find convenient excuses to stop caring, and they don't realize until way too late that the best things in life were precisely about those rare connections. #orangebook #Family #Friends #Connections

Smart enough to know the life you could have, not brave enough to take the risks to get there, that’s where most anger comes from. No one busy living the life they want gets mad at things that don’t matter. #orangebook #Anger #Regret #Action

Life is actually more stressful when your goals aren’t challenging enough. You are wasting your time, and you know it. Peace of mind is just the art of playing life on the right difficulty level. #orangebook #Goals #Stress #Mindset

Most “drama” naturally disappear once you hang out with people of equivalent talent, intelligence, and ambition. You will effortlessly understand each other and because you know the price to pay to reach your respective goals, you will never waste each other’s time. #orangebook #Ambition #Talent #Intelligence