Category Courage

The buck stops HERE

“The buck stops here.” Make your decisions and accept responsibility because there’s no one you can pass the blame to other than yourself. When you blame others, you give away your power over the situation. Who wants that? Don’t wait…

Strongest Muscle

Your strongest muscle is your mind. No matter what the outside world inflicts on you, your mind can remain yours and unscathed. Train it well, so external events don’t have any power over it; only you do. Keep your mind…

True Needs

Your actual needs are small. As humans, we only have a few basic needs like food, water, and security to live with our friends and family. We can manage with it just like most people had to cope with even…

You are your trump card

In the long term, what happens to you doesn’t matter; how you react to it matters. So our “trump card” is our ability to decide how we respond to external events. Learn to accept that things can and will go…

Prosperity reveals character

Power, fortune, wealth does not change people. It just shows more of who they are. We’ll all be the same person, with more or less the same weaknesses even if we have a lot of power or money. Money does…

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