Wisdom Quotes for Personal Growth and Daily Success

Where is the meaning to be found?

Life is hard. It's tainted by malevolence and betrayal. That can make you bitter. You need a meaning to offset that. Where is the meaning to be found? Not in rights, not in impulsive pleasure but in responsibility. You take responsibility for yourself so you take care of yourself.
If you're good at it you have some excess left over to take care of your damn family.
If you're good at both of those then you have some excess left over to take care of your community. Those are heavy burdens. You pick up the burdens and you find that's meaningful.
The best way to pick up the burden is to continually improve yourself. And that's where the meaning is to be found. That meaning is in the continual self transcendence. That's letting your old self die and the new self be reborn

Get serious about your goals. Put them on paper. Write them down. There's all kinds - his goals, her goals, their goals, business goals, financial goals, financial independence goals, family goals... There's so many things to work on on this. If you don't get busy and work on it sure enough the time will pass. And sure enough five years from now you'll wind up where you don't want to be, wear what you don't want to wear, driving what you don't want to drive, being what you don't want to be. Now is the time to fix it

The book you don't read won't help

Life is accumulative. Our errors either accumulate into what we don't get, or our wise decisions accumulate into what we do get. Now the key is to correct the errors as early as possible