Think Straight
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
You are not your thoughts — you can train your mind instead of being run by it. The quality of your thinking sets the quality of your life, so become aware of your thoughts, keep what’s useful, and let the rest go.
Darius Foroux is a Dutch entrepreneur and writer. Self-published in 2017 after his own years of feeling stuck and overwhelmed, this short, practical book skips the theory of why we think the way we think and goes straight to the how: concrete habits for observing your thoughts, cutting the useless ones, and acting on the rest.
A few lines worth keeping:
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
The quality of our thoughts determines the quality of our lives. And our decisions are a result of our thoughts.
I’m no longer a slave to my thoughts and I’m much happier because of it. I use my mind, and it’s no longer the other way around.
Money is a replaceable resource. When you’re out of it, you can earn it back. You can’t say the same for time.
Stop thinking and start feeling.
The true is that which works.
When we hold on to a lot of things in the past, they form an obstacle to living in the present.
No matter what you do, don’t spend too much time in thought because that’s a waste of life.
I control my mind. I decide what it does. So can you.
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