Book
Unfu*k Yourself
Gary John Bishop
- In simple terms, the language you use to describe your circumstances determines how you see, experience, and participate in them and dramatically affects how you deal with your life and confront problems both big and small. (Location 210)
- The more you tell yourself how hard something is, the harder it will actually seem. (Location 249)
- On the other hand, the person who views success as if it were just around the corner will not only work his butt off to achieve it but be energized and alive to it and all the while acting on that fundamental view of success. To be clear, believing you will be successful is only one (albeit important) part of success. (Location 268)
- Assertive self-talk is when you stake a claim for this (Location 331)
- If you’re not willing to take the actions to change your situation—in other words, if you’re willing to put up with your situation—then whether you like it or not, that is the life you have chosen. (Location 378)
- you must first accept that while there are things that have happened in your life that you had no say in, you are 100 percent responsible for what you do with your life in the aftermath of those events. Always, every time, no excuses. (Location 396)
- Willingness to change, willingness to let go, willingness to accept. Real, magical, inspired willingness. (Location 411)
- Missing the target isn’t the worst thing you can do. Not taking the shot is. (Location 961)
- “If you want to win, you have to be willing to be judged by others.” (Location 1007)
- “If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.” (Location 1020)
- “You are not defined by what’s inside your head. You are what you do. Your actions.” (Location 1072)
- You change your life by doing, not by thinking about doing. In fact, when you become closely associated with the actions you are taking, something magical starts to become apparent. (Location 1142)
- Think about the greatest people you know of—either personally or by reputation. Do you consider their thoughts? Or do you remember their actions? (Location 1214)
- “I am not my thoughts; I am what I do.” (Location 1240)
- “Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.” (Location 1271)
- This is about seizing your fucking life and staking a claim for yourself as though your life depended on it. Because, the reality is, it does. (Location 1805)