When was the last time you sat back and allowed yourself to reflect on lessons you have learnt and the things you have achieved?
Last Friday, a day before my birthday, I was sat on a plane returning home from a week playing in Tasmania. Throughout the flight it gave me time to reflect and sit with my thoughts. How do I sum up my learnings into 24 points, what are the most influential, or thought provoking, what are the ones that make me the person I am?
1. Be brave enough to be yourself.
2. No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.
3. “Live like you’ll die tomorrow, learn like you’ll live forever” - Mahatma Gandhi
4. “No one can beat me worse, than i beat myself” - Mike Tyson
5. “Vulnerable isn’t about winning or losing, its the courage to show up when you can’t control the outcome” - Brené Brown
6. Those that mind don’t matter, and those that matter don’t mind”
7. We are so busy chasing the extraordinary moments, that we miss the ordinary ones.
8. Your body is the only one you have
9. Our greatest periods of growth come from our greatest setbacks.
10. “I cried when i didnt get a new pair of shoes, until i saw someone without feet” - Michael Crossland
11. No matter what happens, the sun will always come up tomorrow
12. “The worst prison is not the one the Nazi’s put me in, the worst prison is the one I built myself” - Edith Egar
13. Shared sorrow is halved sorrow, shared pleasure is double pleasure.
14. What I have to share is not my pain, what I share is my hope.
15. Listen to understand not to be understood.
16. Comparison is the thief of joy
17. “The grass will always be greener on the other side, until you start watering the side you are on” - Steven Bartlett
18. Be the difference you want to see in the world.
19. If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate”
20. Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful, its up to you.
21. We are all ordinary people doing extraordinary things.
22. Manners don’t cost a thing. - “Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age, but being a gentleman is a matter of choice.” - Vin Diesel.
23. Sometimes success is just showing up, when everyone else would have found it too hard.
24. Dream big.
Comment below, what the lessons are that have inspired you and driven you to be the person you are today?
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