in Food for Thought, Lists

North Stars v1.0

  • Question Everything
  • Be Decisive
  • Pick your battles wisely
  • Be aware of what you can control
  • Take your responsibilities seriously, but not yourself
  • Learn to be silent, and you will notice that you have talked too much
  • Let go of what is hurting you
  • Life doesn’t owe you a thing
  • Define success for yourself
  • You’re not everything you could be, and you know it
  • Do not participate in gossip
  • Protect your time
  • Pay less attention to what people say, and more to what they do
  • Be a warrior tending his garden rather than a gardener at war
  • True, meaningful motivation comes from within
  • You are who you are when you are alone
  • Do not confuse popularity or consensus with truth; truth is not a democracy
  • We are less important than bees
  • At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it