“ Do what you can do today. Don't worry about tomorrow or yesterday. And that's where the magic happens in pretty much everything. Not just sports, but certainly in swimming. Show up today, do your best right now in this set for the next 30 minutes, and then we'll take on whatever's next. And if you can focus on that, that's how you're going to end up going where you want to go.”

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“Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche


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What are some things that, if you stopped doing them, could improve your life?

Why haven’t you stopped already?

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Create Without Expectations: If you create value with no expectation of return, you will experience the greatest returns.

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If something is valuable, you will make sacrifices to attain it.

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“The biggest decision you make daily is what to focus on.”

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"People can sometimes be held hostage by their expectations. They have a dream of something they would like to achieve or a path they intend to follow, but their mindset falls apart when things don't work out how they had hoped.

The key is to reach for an extremely high bar, but to be adaptable enough to reframe the failures, disappointments, and defeats into fuel for the next thing. Give your best effort, but no matter how it works out, trust that life will be good for you. Focus on how the world is working with you, not against you.

Everything you are given is material for the next move. Everything."

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If you don't aim at it, it will be very hard to hit it.

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Humility helps the ego not become an overconsuming aspect of your mind. Humility is what helps you see beyond your own perspective, and it helps you see that you are not always right. Having the humility to admit there is room for improvement and to act on that with self-development is one of the most beautiful aspects of character that a human being can have.

It takes a lot of strength to remain malleable and adaptive. Especially when fear and old hurt want you to become hard and rigid, you intentionally choose softness because only through the strength of softness can you change your form. Seeing the ways you can grow and acting on them is necessary when you want to share quality years and decades with the one you love.

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The main thing all relationships need is balance. Both people should be giving and receiving. If one person is doing all the emotional heavy lifting, all the forgiving, all the problem-solving and leading, then things will start to turn sideways for the relationship.

You both should feel like equals in the relationship. Even though you both have different strengths and preferences, you should both feel that your power is helping design the culture of what love looks like in your home. You are both leaders in your relationship, even if that leadership looks different for each of you.


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Black and white thinking or having an all or nothing mentality will cut you off from the power and nuance of subtlety. Black and white thinking means your mind can only grasp one side of the story and it does not allow itself to see through the prism of multiple perspectives. If you are really looking for truth, it is more than likely that you will find it somewhere in the middle. Truth is subtle.

Black and white thinking is also a sign that you feel stress when you are faced with complexity. It serves us to build the habit of feeling calmness in the face of complexity because life is just never simple, there are many factors and perspectives to consider if you want to develop a more well-rounded view.

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