You offend so many people when you choose to not remain your default mediocre self. #orangebook #Authenticity #Selfimprovement #Mediocrity

It's always the people with little talent who spend their time criticizing others, talented people know better how to focus on their own efforts, that's how they got where they are; to be average is actually a choice, the choice of being distracted by the lives of others. #orangebook #Talent #Criticism #Focus

There is no such thing as people who struggle to maintain meaningful friendships as they get older, only people who lack the self-awareness to notice that they are too emotionally distant for them to attract thoughtful, loyal, loving people. #orangebook #Friendships #Self-awareness #EmotionalDistance

It's actually very easy to spend all your time working and being dedicated to work, the hard part is to do it while still being a good parent to your children, a good spouse to your husband/wife, a good son/daughter to your old parents with whom you have less time than you think. #orangebook #WorkLife #Parenting #Family

People with bad taste always act like a healthy lifestyle requires so much self-discipline and effort, when healthy food is actually the tastiest (if you are already healthy), regular workouts are one of the most enjoyable moments of your day (if you are already fit), and a good sleep schedule is only natural and effortless (if you are not spending your days glued to a screen and are actually living life.) #orangebook #HealthyLifestyle #SelfDiscipline #Food

You save so much time and energy once your relationships are with confident people. You never have to worry about whether facts might accidentally offend them. You can be yourself, they can be themselves. Everyone can focus on meaningful goals instead of each other’s feelings. #orangebook #Relationships #Confidence #Authenticity

Mentally strong people are just people who refused to believe that giving up was ever an option. #orangebook #MentalStrength #Resilience #Mindset

So many people with the best intentions fail to be good parents because they never understood that education was never about telling their kids what to do, but about the efforts, the values, the ambitions they embodied in their daily lives. You won't raise an emotionally healthy, mentally strong, bold and confident kid unless you are such a person first. #orangebook #Parenting #Education #Values

People who can't find peace within are always out there seeking conflicts with people who were just minding their own business. #orangebook #InnerPeace #Conflict #Mindfulness

Too many people who never learned to love themselves or who never experienced what life feels like in the healthiest version of themselves somehow think that "enjoying life" means destroying your health with short-term pleasure. #orangebook #SelfLove #Health #Pleasure

People often complain about being too busy when they should actually question their own inefficiency. Most people waste so much time on conversations with no depth, entertainment with no substance, investments with no conviction (or no investment at all), and then, when life finally catches up to the quality of their decisions, they play the victim and act "surprised" by how unfair life is. Some people actually have it all: a loving family, loyal friends, a creative job, financial freedom, fitness and health, a meaningful journey, but it didn't happen overnight, and it was the product of long-term calculated risks, independent thinking rooted in self-belief, and a lot of humble daily training and preparation for the rainy days, but also for the life-changing opportunities that never seemed obvious when they came. #orangebook #TimeManagement #PersonalGrowth #SelfImprovement

Most mental issues are actually physical health issues, but the problem of a confused mind is that it usually gets defensive when you suggest a few changes of daily habits. #orangebook #MentalHealth #PhysicalHealth #DailyHabits

People don't lose touch with their family and friends throughout the years because they are too busy, they just get lazy and find convenient excuses to stop caring, and they don't realize until way too late that the best things in life were precisely about those rare connections. #orangebook #Family #Friends #Connections

You don’t understand the value of jobs until you create them. You don’t understand how much your parents did for you until you become one. You don’t understand how much of an advantage it is to grow up wealthy until you have financial freedom. Gratitude comes from experience. #orangebook #Gratitude #Experience #Perspective

I was once a big advocate of "helping people when no one else believes in them," but experience taught me that the kind of people who get back on track and take responsibility for where they are in life after getting some unexpected help once are extremely rare; in most cases, when people start believing that they are special, and that someone will help them no matter what, and they double down on their irresponsible decisions, and as time passes, you realize that you haven't been helping them at all, quite the opposite. I still hope to look back many years from now, realize that my help was actually a catalyst for greater positive change, and be proven wrong. #orangebook #HelpingOthers #PersonalGrowth #Responsibility

It's ironic that a lot of smart people fail to live fulfilling lives precisely because they think too much; and they think too much because they lack two things: (1) the faith to believe in their own growth and (2) the courage to act when they feel scared. #orangebook #Fulfillment #Self-doubt #Action

Most of your anger actually naturally disappears once you live in a place where people are full of common sense. #orangebook