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Continue reading →: We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret and disappointment.Forcing oneself to be disciplined at any regimen that is not our preferred choice is a skill that must be carefully honed.
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Continue reading →: If you cannot mean what you say then you cannot say what you mean.Words are beautiful and understanding more of them colors the world we (you) live in. So much of what I have to write professionally has to be dumbed down for the intended audience.
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Continue reading →: Sometimes, you have to get angry to get things done.Is anger a valuable tool? In my experience, for the most part, it is a huge Achilles’ heel that threatens the normalcy of any circumstance by throwing the equilibrium of the moment completely out of balance.
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Continue reading →: I still get rejections – frequently – and my goal isn’t to never fail, to never be turned down, but simply to succeed more often than I don’t. And in order to do that, I have to constantly put myself out there, to judgment, critique, and rejection.Putting oneself out there to judgment, critique and rejection is one of the more maturing processes one can ever attempt. It requires courage of an unparalleled magnitude.
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Continue reading →: Somewhere over the rainbow…Bluebirds fly…And the dream that you dare to…Oh why, oh why can’t I?We all dream of big wishes coming true. We put them on a pedestal and worship them with our daily hopes and expectations. We feed them with our time, our focus and an innate sense of purpose.
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Continue reading →: The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.It is very clear to me that the acquisition of physical items is in and of itself just a pastime, and certainly not an endgame.
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Continue reading →: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.I believe that a piece of the artist is encapsulated in the artist’s work.
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Continue reading →: Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.Never let yourself fall short of the sum total of everything you truly are. Your future remains your potential.
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Continue reading →: There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life is a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.If I make this decision and it does not go the way I planned, my life will be ruined. Have you heard that one before? Or even dared think it yourself? The reality is that even when or if that option goes south, the sun rises the next day…
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Continue reading →: Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.If there is one thing that is common among every one of the great sages whom I have read… it is that they all hit a period (or multiple periods) in their life where they were completely lost.
Hello,
I’m Brian
I believe it is truly possible to change the world, one thought at a time. If anything I have written connects with you, please share it with others. My goal in creating this is to help others with ideas that are thought-provoking, stimulating and cathartic.
Brian Weiner 