Your daily exercise might be demanding, but you will become someone with consistent higher levels of energy. Your daily writing might be unpleasant, but you will become someone with consistent mental clarity. Your daily expression of grattiude might be unfounded at times, but you will become someone with consistent joyful vibes. The path to your ambitious goals might be frustrating, but you will realize that you could grow so much more than you thought. In doubt, keep choosing the short-term pain, it will lead you to the life you want in the long term.

There are moments in life when you feel stuck with no opportunity in sight. These are actually moments when you have the privilege to double down on your investments in yourself: perfect your foreign languages, read books, push your body a bit more, isolate yourself and write.

Create an environment where you can afford to ignore the whole world for a few hours every day, use that time to unapologetically invest in yourself and in what you do best, you will naturally attract more "luck" in your life.

Most anxious people are just people who are trying to have everything under control, including other people around them, when they should instead just focus on improving themselves and have faith in the fact that we all get what we deserve in unpredictable ways. — Orange Book