In this episode I microwave the first part of The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday.
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way”. MARCUS AURELIUS
The title of this section is Perception.
RECOGNIZE YOUR POWER- “Choose not to be harmed-and you wont feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed-and you haven’t been”. MARCUS AURELIUS
STEADY YOUR NERVES- “What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice”. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
CONTROL YOUR EMOTIONS- “Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself”. PUBLILIUS SYRUS
PRACTICE OBJECTIVITY- “Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hit you knock you off your feet; just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the test”. EPICTETUS
ALTER YOUR PERSPECTIVE- “Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token, every human being has the freedom to change at any instant”. VIKTOR FRANKL
IS IT UP TO YOU?- “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices”. EPICTETUS
LIVE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT- “The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up”. CHUCK PALAHNIUK
THINK DIFFERENTLY- “Genius is the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. There’s not other definition of it”. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
FINDING THE OPPORTUNITY- “A good person dyes events with his own color…and turns whatever happens to his benefit”. SENECA
PREPARE TO ACT- “Then initiate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood”. SHAKESPEARE

Please join me on the next episode where I discuss the second section of the book, titled, Action.
Special thanks to Tim Rayborn. I used random facts from his book More True Facts that Sound Like BS.
Brenda