Darius Foroux Quotes

Listen to Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Whitney Houston. Watch movies by Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola. Read Ernest Hemingway, Harper Lee, Ralph Ellison. Go to the British Museum. Study Andy Warhol.

But sometimes, we feel like we’ve fallen behind. “I’m still sharing an apartment with 3 strangers.” “I’m not married yet.” “We still don’t have kids.” “My business still hasn’t taken off.” “I didn’t get my big break yet.” “I’m still waiting to become a manager.” “I’m stuck in the same job for years.” “I’m not losing weight.

But the most important lesson I’ve learned was that you don’t regret what you did in life, you regret what you didn’t do.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.” — Seneca

People can only hurt you if you let them. Worrying about what other people say or think about you means that you let them. Live your life the way you feel is right and do not worry about what other people say. Do not let them hurt you. You cannot control what people think of you.

Never complain. Another one is: Read and exercise every day. And: Close the day every evening by setting your next day’s priorities.

To improve your focus, boost your serotonin activity. Research shows that exercise can do that. But something else, that’s equally effective, and a lot easier is a simple mind-exercise. All you need to do is remember positive events that happened in the past.

if you want to improve anything in life, you must measure it first.

my personal rules is this: Never complain. Another one is: Read and exercise every day. And: Close the day every evening by setting your next day’s priorities.

Elimination is a key strategy that I use for many aspects of my life

When serotonin goes up, your focus goes up.

Look, I’m not joking around. Smartphones are dangerous. Not because they may cause stress, anxiety, and even depression, but because they change your behavior. It seems like we can’t focus on one thing for more than 5 seconds. Why? Well, we can’t because our smartphone is constantly going off. Not because people are calling you (it seems like people are afraid of calling these days, but that’s another topic), but because you’re constantly getting notifications about THINGS THAT DON’T MATTER. Change Your Smartphone Behavior The same study I mentioned above also found something else: “Researchers asked participants to perform a concentration test under four different circumstances: with their smartphone in their pocket, at their desk, locked in a drawer and removed from the room completely.” The results are significant — test results were lowest when the smartphone was on the desk, but with every additional layer of distance between participants and their smartphones, test performance increased. Overall, test results were 26% higher when phones were removed from the room.” Sure, it’s just a study. And you don’t have to believe everything you read. But this is something I can personally attest. For the past two years, I’ve significantly changed my smartphone behavior. Namely: I have turned off ALL my notifications except messages and calls I’ve removed myself from all Whatsapp groups except for one with my closest friends I’ve removed all news apps (if something important happens, you’ll hear it from the people around you) I only consume music, paid journalism, articles from specific authors I follow, podcasts, YouTube videos (mostly to learn, but also for entertainment because I’m not a robot), books, and audiobooks on it For the rest, I use my phone to call, text, and to take notes, photos and videos Also, I’ve stopped immediately responding to notifications. That doesn’t mean I don’t value other people who try to reach me. It means that I refuse to be a slave to my

In fact, the only reason I think is that I want to do more with my life. I like to get more out of it because it gives me satisfaction.

Willpower Doesn’t Work. Systems Do.

The point is that there are multiple ways to achieve your goals. Also, if everyone is doing one thing, that often means you shouldn’t.