Each year, Steve Jobs would hold an annual meeting with the 100 most important people at Apple. Crucially, these were not the top 100 executives, bu… - James Clear

If you look for evidence that people are conspiring to hold you back and the world is working against you, then it will take you no time at all to find precisely that.

If you expect to encounter helpful people and experience a world that is working with you, then you find plenty of evidence to support that view as well.

The raw material for a sweet life or a bitter life is always there. The story you emphasize is the one you notice.

Anticipate, but don't expect.

Anticipation: You're excited for what the future holds, but you don't try to control it.

Expectation: You try to predict the future and restrict your happiness to one outcome.

Always be excited about the possibilities. Never be entitled to them.

When you fall in love with the process rather than the product, you don’t have to wait to give yourself permission to be happy.