Six Powerful Quotes That Slapped Me Square in the Face.

4 min readNov 18, 2020

Eye-opening messages in case you need a push right now……..

Seven years ago, my life was in the gutter. But after 15 years of addiction, a near-death experience finally gave me the wakeup call I needed. After several months in detox and treatment, I began reading about personal growth, and one line, in particular, hit me square in the face……….

“Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.” — Thomas Jefferson

Having lost my entire adult life to addiction, mostly through inaction, it felt like I’d nothing to lose by going in the opposite direction. So instead of sitting at home and pitying myself about lost years, I followed the advice of Mr. Jefferson and went out and got busy.

Doyou ever sit down at 6 p.m. and think that you’ve had an incredibly busy day but didn’t really accomplish much?

If you ever feel like your days are just passing by, it’s likely because you’re spending the majority of your time on the wrong things.

And the most dangerous time of the day to waste is your morning.

As Richard Whateley once said:

“Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.”

If you spend your morning doing the wrong things, you’ll likely lack energy, motivation, and willpower to do the right things throughout the rest of your day.

By eliminating the following habits, however, you’ll make space for the important decisions, tasks, and people in your life.

Planning Your Day

If you fail to plan, you’ll also fail to execute. But if you spend the first minutes of your day planning your schedule, you’ll waste enormous amounts of precious energy on that repetitive task.

“Write a to-do list to stay organized” is common productivity advice, but what most people overlook is that you’re too late if you set up your to-do list in the morning.

Yes, being organized is the key to a fulfilled life, but you shouldn’t get organized first thing in the morning.

Your plans should be ready when you get up.

Otherwise, you’ll spend mental energy on prioritizing your tasks and lack that mental power when it comes to doing all these things.

Waking up to a concrete plan for the day will help you be clearer about what you want to achieve and how to get it, but it will also allow you to focus more easily.

What to do instead:

If you want to make the most out of each day, set your priorities before going to bed.

When you wake up, your daily schedule and plan should be ready and waiting for you to tick off your to-dos.

Don’t allow yourself to feel overwhelmed in the early hours of your day. Instead, be well-prepared and set your priorities in the evening.

There’s no better feeling than going to bed knowing that you’re well prepared to tackle the next day.

And when planning your daily schedule and tasks, make sure to keep it to a minimum: Your schedule shouldn’t contain more than a few important tasks per day.

I organize my daily schedule with a simple tool called Todoist and make sure to have no more than 3–5 prioritized tasks per day.

Whenever I tried to get more big tasks done in a day, I ended up feeling overwhelmed and overstressed. This number obviously depends on the tasks you want to get done and can vary depending on your projects but on average, a maximum of 3–5 priorities is a good start.

Complaining

Quite often, we don’t even realize that negative conversations and thoughts can influence us for hours.

For most people, it even feels natural to complain about the weather, politics, or their job as part of their morning routine.

But if you start your day by complaining about your job, partner, family, or whatsoever, you’ll take that negative mood with you for at least a few hours, sometimes even for the entire day.

By complaining, you focus on obstacles and problems, which makes it harder to recognize opportunities. It’s nothing more than a surefire way to start your day on the wrong foot.

What to do instead:

Your words and thoughts don’t only affect your motivation but your entire state of mind.

If you start your day by complaining, you’ll find more and more things to complain about throughout the day. Not because there is so much to complain about, but because you focus on it.

Six Powerful Quotes That Slapped Me Square in the Face.

Eye-opening messages in case you need a push right now……..

Planning Your Day

What to do instead:

Complaining

What to do instead:

Written by Leasdefsunny