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Category: Oli Anderson

Idealism + Inaction = Depression

action, activity, depresion, execution, idealism, passivity

When one dream dies we replace it with another.

ambition, dreams, failure, life, life-lessons, success

Our modern day, hyper-rat-race culture often leads us to mistakenly confuse’busy’ for ‘success’. The truth of the matter is that if you’re constantly having to tell people how busy you are and how overwhelmed with work or stressed you are, what you’re really telling them is that you can’t cope with what’s on your plate. You’re ‘failing’.

busy, failure, success, time, time-management

It is essential to our health and happiness that we dedicate ourselves to some kind of mission or purpose that transcends the mundane hustle and bustle of daily living.

happiness, health, life-purpose, mission, purpose, self-esteem, self-transcendence

Only ever doing what feels comfortable is a form of suicide.

challenge, comfort-zone, edge, growth, personal-development, suicide

Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves.

contempt, familiarity, growth, self-loathing

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

change-your-life, dialogue, grow-real, growth, insight, life, realness

Dialogue can help you find out if you’ve been brainwashed or not.

brainwashed, dialogue, ego, growth, points-of-view

Life is a dance more than it is an assertion and there is more health in dynamism or fluidity than there is rigidity and stasis.

change, change-management, flux, growth-mindset, health, life, mental-health, practical-philosophy, stasis

Whenever we find ourselves stuck, whenever we find ourselves lost or confused by the chaos of the world, we can be sure that the only way to free ourselves is to take action of some kind. Action is the only thing that ever changes anything and in a world that ever changes, it is the best way to keep ourselves in the flow of the world unfolding.

action, change, chaos, confusion, flow, self-improvement

The human condition is essentially the conflict between the human need for control and a universe that provides little if any of it. Once we accept this and get into the flow of life, we are free and, paradoxically, able to get better results.

chaos, control, cosmos, flow-of-life, freedom, human-condition, human-nature

See yourself as a long-term work in progress, not a short-term project of preservation.

growth, higher-self, learninglosophy, life-and-living, life-philosophy, personal-development