Maybe all you have is this little rat hole of a room in some run-down place in the world. Fix it up! There is more there than you think. See what happens if you fix it up. And you'll fix yourself up simultaneously because you have to get disciplined in order to fix up the room. Then you have a fixed-up room and you will be a more fixed-up person. All hell will break loose as a consequence of that

Everything around you is full of potential. Everything! Maybe more potential than you could ever possibly utilize

It's not that easy to cleanup your room. You want your room to be set up so that when you walk in there it tells you to be better than you generally are. It's organized, it has got direction, everything is in its place. You try to do that in your chaotic household

When you do something that you should not do, it's worse than you think and when you do something that you should do, it's better than you think

Your family is more messed up than it could be, if you were less messed up than you are. So if you just got your act together like ten percent more your family would be one percent better.
Do it!

If you are not everything you could be more people will die, more people will suffer, more evil will be unconstrained, more tyranny will reign, more chaos will remain...

The world is full of darkness. Each of us have a little bit of light. If we release that light, if we shine properly... The world is a lesser place if you don't reveal from within yourself what you have to reveal

The thing that sustains people through life really is the lifting of a worthwhile burden. We are evolved to be useful to the people around us

You need to organize your family with a certain amount of discipline and a certain amount of structure so that you get to do what you want, so that you are happy to have your kids around, so that you won't take revenge on them

You want to lay your life out so that it's providing you what you need to not be bitter and to work for your best interests and for the interests of everyone else

You are much more inclined to let other people live their lives if you are living your life in a satisfactory manner. That's exactly it

Stop saying things that make you weak!
Stop telling lies that you know to be lies!
Stop doing things you know to be useless and counterproductive!
Aim high!
Adopt some responsibility and then see what the hell happens!

There is evil in the world of all sorts and some of it's the evil in other people. And some of it is the evil in your brother's heart. But part of it that you can really do something about that's the malevolence in your own heart. You can actually do something about that and that's actually way more useful than you think. Because if you can face it in you, then you start to understand it and that also makes you strong enough to identify it and to fight it when you see it in the external world. Plus you don't do any harm

Clinical psychologists don't stick with high level abstractions, especially the behaviors, they are really practical

If you are not a disciplined person it's uncomfortable, it's going to be painful, it's frustrating... You have to force yourself into this things. It's a muscle that has to be developed. These patterns have to be developed in your mindset. Incrementally

It's painful to understand how much of what you are doing is not productive

Go out there, find the dragon, confront it. It's a dragon, it might eat you, it's dangerous, but it's worse to cower at home and wait for it to come and devour you. Go out there! Confront it! Get the gold! Share it with the community

If you confront the world forthrightly, if you speak the truth and you expose yourself courageously to those things that you are afraid of then your life will improve and so will the life of people around you

No matter how bad your situation is, if you stand up and face it, with a noble vision, with discipline and intent, you can go far farther to overcoming it than you can imagine. And that's the principle upon which you should predicate your behavior

You should understand how much potential there is within you to set that straight and then you should do everything you can to manifest that in the world and then it will set it straight

You should treat yourself as if you are valuable, especially in potential. But you should concentrate on who you should become, especially if you are young

How do you make the world better?

How do you make the world better? Tell the truth! Because the world you bring into being as a consequence of telling the truth will be a good world. I think it's true metaphorically, I think it's true theologically and I think it's true at the practical and scientific level as well

If you tell the truth, you transform the potential of being into a habitable actuality

Speak the truth because your life turns out better if you speak the truth