Doesn’t have to be a life motto. Any motto, for any application.

Mine is: “Fear is shorter than regret.”

  • DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
    52·
    3 个月前

    “Be excellent to each other”.

    Show some compassion, be a bro, care about other people. Maybe we can make society a bit better; one person, one act of kindness, at a time.

  • Anomaly
    28·
    3 个月前

    Remember you will die. Not as a fear but simply as a reminder.

    • agamemnonymous
      61·
      3 个月前

      If you can’t do something about a problem, worrying just gives you another problem. If you can do something about it, don’t waste energy worrying about it, just do the thing

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 个月前

      This is great, I’ve been applying it in the kast few years. Lifted many a burden off my back

  • Professorozone@lemmy.world
    25·
    3 个月前

    90% of life is showing up.

    I use this every time I’m on the fence about going to an event or just curling up on the couch.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    3 个月前

    “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw

  • Dabundis@lemmy.world
    18·
    3 个月前

    “Anything that isn’t nothing”

    Helps me push through when executive dysfunction hits. Getting outside for even just a little bit is a whole lot better than staying inside while telling myself I’m going to run 3 miles, for example

    • Reyali@lemm.ee
      51·
      3 个月前

      That’s a good one. A few others that help with my executive dysfunction are:

      • “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” (It’s better to do something than to obsess over trying for the impossible goal of ‘perfection’.)
      • “Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.” (This one helps especially with art and things I enjoy but struggle to do if I’m not instantly great at them.)
      • “Laziness does not exist.” (This was inspired by a Medium article I read years ago which explained there is always an underlying cause of procrastination. Mental or physical ill health issues, uncertainty about the task, fear of failure, etc. When I am struggling to move forward, I now look for that reason and can begin to remove the barrier.)
    • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 个月前

      I love this. I always tell people trying to get into fitness and struggling something along these lines. Anything is better than nothing. Even just going to the gym and walking around the place and walking right out… Still better than doing nothing at all. Terry crews has an awesome quote kinda along these lines:

      I tell people this a lot - go to the gym, and just sit there, and read a magazine, and then go home. And do this every day. Go to the gym, don’t even work out. Just GO. Because the habit of going to the gym is more important than the work out. Because it doesn’t matter what you do. You can have fun — but as long as you’re having fun, you continue to do it.

    • CrispyCactus @lemm.ee
      1·
      3 个月前

      “Some is better than none.” -My motto throughout college.

      Usually I was stressed by the number of chapters I had to read, or pages I had to write. Instead of shutting down and not doing anything, I would tell myself to just read a single page or write a paragraph because any amount of work done is better than nothing.

      Now I apply it to work and chores.

  • Nusm@yall.theatl.socialEnglish
    16·
    3 个月前

    Before you criticize a man, you should walk a mile in his shoes. That way if he gets angry, you’re a mile away! And you’ve got his shoes!

      • phdepressed
        3·
        3 个月前

        Follow a Ramadan or Lent fast and take as much a break from electronics as possible especially around bedtime.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    14·
    3 个月前

    Paraphrased from Forrest Gump.

    “Well, I’ve come this far. Might as well keep going.”

    It’s great, because you just lie to yourself about the starting point of any task, and it doesn’t seem so bad.
    If I’ve survived from birth until now, then I guess I can survive doing the dishes.

  • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    3 个月前

    “Don’t say things about someone behind their back, if you wouldn’t be prepared to say it to their face”