What most people call anxiety is usually lack of a clear goal, lack of courage to actually act, lack of honesty with themselves about the life they truly want, and in so many cases, it’s even all three at the same time. #orangebook #Anxiety #Goals #Action

People don't struggle to teach emotional control to their kids, they struggle with their own, and you can't teach what you can't do. #orangebook #EmotionalControl #ParentingSkills #Self-awareness

Most professional failures are actually personal relationship failures. You will generally learn more slowly if you are surrounded by the wrong people. You will also waste so much time in unnecessary drama instead of actually advancing your goals. If you’re gonna have high standards for the quality of your work, you should also have high standards for your relationships. #orangebook #Relationships #ProfessionalGrowth #PersonalDevelopment

Parenting is never something you can outsource, if your work is taking up all your time, you are effectively choosing to be an absent parent, and yet so many parents somehow managed to convince themselves that they were doing it for their kids and that they were “good parents.” #orangebook #Parenting #WorkLife #Priorities

If you can just figure out how to stay high-energy, intellectually curious, mentally calm, and emotionally present around your kids, you are already doing much better than most parents. So many parents can’t even show love and respect to their spouse in front of their kids, they are constantly stressed out, worried, angry, but somehow also have the arrogance to talk about raising emotionally healthy children. #orangebook #Parenting #EmotionalHealth #Self-awareness

Your anxiety is the accumulation of the shots you never took because you talked yourself out of them due to your lack of courage. #orangebook #Anxiety #Courage #Regret

If you don't need to work for money, but somehow can't figure out how to live a happy life either, the problem isn't that money can't buy happiness, it's that money can't buy good taste. #orangebook #Money #Happiness #GoodTaste

Your ability to build the life you want isn't defined by your occasional moments of inspiration or strokes of genius; it's defined by what you do with plain sheer discipline during your average and bad days. #orangebook #Discipline #Consistency #Mindset

There is nothing sadder than leading a life where you are never wrong, where you never have to question and renew yourself, it means you've been spending it all in the wrong directions. #orangebook #SelfImprovement #PersonalGrowth #Learning

You will keep growing as a person as long as you maintain the habit of doing, at least once every day, something you've been reticent or scared of doing; it could be reaching out to a stranger you've curious about, traveling to a place you've always been interesting in, reading a book that always intimidated you, having a conversation in a foreign language, investing a bit of money in a field that you don't understand, publishing your imperfect thoughts online, getting married and starting a family despite your fears of commitment, getting rid of old unhealthy habits that had become a big part of yourself, stopping and staring a little bit in a world that keeps making you feel like you can never stop running. And you will feel at peace with yourself and with the way you've been spending your life as long as you keep growing. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #OvercomingFear #SelfImprovement

Getting older is also the realization that genuine friends who think about you and care are extremely rare. #orangebook #GrowingOlder #Friendship #Relationships

Average minds often spend their time fixing problems they could have avoided in the first place, and they are somehow always very proud of it; smarter people make sure the problems never exist, never mention it, and no one ever notices either. #orangebook #ProblemSolving #Prevention #Intelligence

Anger is a common manifestation of the frustration of not being who you want to be. #orangebook #Anger #Frustration #Self-improvement

When they say "I don't want it," most people actually mean "I'm scared of trying my best and still fail to get what I want, hence I'd rather not even try at all." #orangebook #FearOf #Self-sabotage #Procrastination

Being poor ironically makes everything more expensive, in money, in health, in energy, in time. #orangebook #Poverty #CostOf #FinancialHardship

The day you are no longer afraid of "disappearing" in order to live a quiet and private life with the people you love, you've won the game. #orangebook #PrivateLife #Fearless #InnerPeace

Assume that it's always possible to be a loyal spouse, a loving parent, a devoted child, a thoughtful friend, a productive citizen, an avid learner, a disciplined athlete, an unconstrained artist, an independent thinker, a wise human being that doesn't take themselves too seriously; then learn how to be constantly more efficient with your time, leave your judgments and ego aside, leverage your capital fearlessly, get rid of your pride and use all the tools available, and go live your greatest life. #orangebook #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement #LifeAdvice

It's actually very recommended that you keep "disappointing" those who never really wanted the best for you. #orangebook #DisappointingPeople #Self-respect #Boundaries

Being busy all the time kills your creativity, your relationships, and your ability to notice what matters. #orangebook #Busyness #Creativity #Relationships

The only honest advice you will get from successful people is to stop asking them what once worked out for them (because it wouldn’t work the same way for them anymore, let alone for you) and just focus on your own strengths, your own accumulated efforts, your own unique journey. #orangebook #Advice #Success #Strengths