Everything is Figureoutable

The most powerful words in the universe are the words you say to yourself.

I win or I learn, but I never lose.

Perfectionism at its core isn't about high standards. It's about fear. Fear of failure. Fear of looking stupid, fear of making a mistake, fear of being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. It's the fear that one simple fact might be true: You're just not good enough.

You can do whatever you set your mind to if you just roll up your sleeves, get in there, and do it. Everything is figureoutable.

If it’s important enough, I’ll make the time. If not, I’ll make an excuse.

Nearly two decades later, I can say that the only thing that allowed me to take that leap was because a deeper, wiser part of me believed that somehow I’d be able to figure it out.

Your potential is limitless. You are unique, valuable, capable, and worthy of the dreams in your heart. Most of all, you have what it takes to transform and transcend whatever challenges you face.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

Clarity comes from engagement, not thought!

Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

In order to change ourselves, we must first believe we can.

Every pro starts off as an amateur. There's not one top artist, athlete, writer, scientist, architect, entrepreneur, programmer, musician, or potter who enters the field at the top of her game. To begin anything new or learn anything new means you will be a neophyte. You must go from outsider to insider. Respect that. Embrace it. Be willing to suck.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

insight without action is worthless. Taking action is the only path to change.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Opportunity cost is no joke. Every choice has a price. Everything you say yes to means you’re saying no to something else. Translation? Each time you pick up your brain-draining gadget and say YES to watching another cat video, you’re saying NOPE to ever reaching your biggest and most important long-term goals.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

There are two types of pain you will go through in life: the pain of discipline and the pain of regret. Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons.

Even if this entire book is bullshit, can you think of a more empowering and pragmatic philosophy to embrace?

Remember that gal that gave up? Neither does anyone else. Unknown

If you believed to your core that everything really is figureoutable, what would you now do? What would you create or heal or transform or transcend? Who would you become?

It’s hard to become what you don’t see.

What holds us back from consistently performing at the levels we’re capable of? To find the answer, we have to look inside. No matter what we’re trying to figure out, the biggest barriers are often in our own minds:

if you’re committed to figuring things out, all excuses have got to go.

Everything’s in the mind. That’s where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it. Mae West

As David Deutsch says, “Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge".

Remember—humans once believed the world was flat, that margarine was better than butter, and that an ice-pick lobotomy cured mental illness. Aren’t you glad those days are over?

...a fall is never final unless you stay on the ground.

No matter what you want to figure out, one thing is for sure: writing it down is a fundamental step to making it real.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it. Thomas Mann