How do you perceive your hardships?

Why do you see it in that way?

What did you learn?

What do you have in life due to it?

We often only see the hard side of hardship.

Yet we ignore the ship that sails into the future.

Hardship is a resource.

It is the wind that makes your ship sail faster.

Don't labor on the oars, harness the wind.

What is it worth?

What is it worth to you?

What is it worth to someone else?

What is the market value?

The worth of things can be very emotional.

The price is often very subjective.

The market value is debatable.

Buyers and sellers are often irrational.

Is it even worth your time and effort?

Did you explain yourself properly?

Why were you not understood?

How can you make the other understand?

How often does this happen to you?

It is your job to get your message across.

If another misunderstands, try again...

and again, till the message hits home.

Getting angry won't help you.

Explain what you need politely.

You shall be amazed afterward.

How do you know if the truth is told?

How often are you right?

Is the truth a thing of black and white?

Do you always have a right to the truth?

Often we are not told the truth.

Often we are told half the truth.

People tell their perspectives.

So how do we find the truth?

When do you need to know the truth?

Search for the truth where it counts.

What do you feel entitled to?

Why do you believe you are?

How does it feel to expect nothing?

Why shackle yourself with entitlement?

Believing you are entitled to anything,

is like shackling yourself.

For those who feel entitled become victims.

Those who expect nothing are truly free.

How tired are you?

Why are you tired?

What could you change?

Being exhausted hampers your progress.

It also hampers your contentment.

And it makes your decisions worse.

Do you eat well?

Do you sleep enough?

Is there mold in your flat?

Do you drink enough?

And so on...

You are facing a huge problem.

What do you do?

What is the optimal solution?

How can you tackle the issue?

Big problems are daunting.

So much so, that we freeze.

Often, there is a simple first solution.

This action will create freedom to move.

Freedom to work on the optimal solution.

How do you react to others struggling?

Can you show compassion?

Can you support them?

Do you get annoyed by it?

Why do you react the way you do?

We all struggle at some point.

We all have our demons to fight.

Some days it is worse than others.

Have patience when it is a hard period.

Do you know your limits?

How often do you challenge your limits?

By how much do you challenge them?

The right amount or too much?

Knowing your limits is important.

Challenging them even more so.

Too much may have dire consequences.

Challenge yourself just a little every day.

This ensures sustainable growth.

How often do you postpone taking action?

Why do you usually postpone tasks?

What is the consequence of it?

Postponing can have terrible downsides,

jet sometimes the upsides are amazing.

The secret lies in why you postpone.

Does doing it feel wrong?

Or are you overwhelmed?

Or are you too demotivated?

When you want to postpone,

ask yourself why,

take control of what you do.

How busy are you?

What does your calendar look like?

How much do you value productivity?

How much are you alone?

Do you take time for yourself to just be?

We fill our days, with all kinds of activities.

Some more active and some passive.

How often do you sit with yourself?

Take time to ponder upon your existence.

It is a valuable exercise often done too little.

How easily can you concentrate?

Does your concentration get broken often?

How do you react to it?

Can you get back into it quickly?

Do you respect others' concentration?

Getting concentrated is hard.

Getting concentrated takes time.

Breaking others' concentration is disrespectful.

Honor the focused state of mind,

for it is what reaps results and happiness.

How often do you get stuck in a rut?

Doing the same thing again and again?

Are you getting the results you want?

Are you able to recognize it?

How soon? And do you act on it?

We tend to get stuck in a rut.

In a rut that reaps no results.

But the rut is comfortable.

It is familiar to us and makes us cozy.

Get out of the rut. Try something new.

For the rut leads nowhere anyway,

so what is there to lose?

How do you handle hardship?

How do you feel while dealing with it?

How do you view hardship?

We all experience hardship.

Some more and some less,

yet still we all do.

We tend to moan about it.

We tend to avoid it if we can.

Hardship is a resource.

It is the pathway to improve.

Fall in love with your challenges.

What ripple effects does your action have?

What ripple effects does your decision have?

Have you seen ripple effects unfold before?

Many events have unforeseen ripple effects.

Ripple effects that influence many people.

That influences whole ecosystems.

The batting of a butterfly may cause a tornado.

How can you cause better ripple effects?

What does saying yes cost you?

How much financially?

What other costs are there?

Have you thought about these before?

Saying yes to a project has more than financial costs.

Opportunity costs: what else do you need to say no to?

It will cost you time.

It might cost you reputation.

It might cost you relationships

It might cost you peace of mind.

It might cost you your values.

Consider the full spectrum carefully before committing.

How do you react to bad news?

What emotions come up for you?

When bad news hits you,

take a moment and stop yourself.

Stop yourself from pessimistic thoughts,

stop yourself from unreflected actions.

For every pessimistic thought,

create an optimistic one.

With this you create balance.

With this you create options.

Options lead to better decisions.

You can see a disaster unfolding...

What do you do?

You can see a solution clearly,

yet you cannot stop it.

How do you deal with this?

Often we can only watch it unfold.

Many things we cannot control.

Other people do what they want.

Often to our detriment.

Watch it unfold and deal with the consequences.

How do you react to hate?

Hate towards you?

Hate towards others?

Your own hate?

We encounter hate everywhere.

There is no hiding from it anywhere.

What is the origin of hate?

Have compassion for the hater.

For they hate themselves just as much.

And more hate breeds more of it.

What did you decide in the past?

Is the decision still valid?

Why did you decide this way?

What has changed since then?

Most decisions are not eternal.

You are not obliged to finish what you started.

You can stop, if you accept the consequences.

What awaits you when you change trajectory?

What awaits you when you hold the path?