Writing helps me learn. Taking information and putting it in my own words, within my own frame and perspective. Read below for some notes I took and my own take on those ideas.

Woody Allen’s Top 10 Rules for Success

1. Execute your vision. Write the script of your vision and execute it everyday. The goal is not to get it down perfect but to take action and get as close to it as humanly possible.
2. Get the joy out of work. Focus on the process and enjoy the joy of it. Don’t focus on the rewards or results, don’t depend on the end result. Your joy should come from the making of your vision, don’t depend for the joy on other people. Get your joy out of what you can control, of what you can do everyday.
3. Enjoy your life. Enjoy the experience of life itself. Make time to reflect on the beauty that is to be alive. Let yourself enjoy the show as an active participant in the theater of life. Let yourself enjoy this short human experience.
4. Be authentic. Go out there and be true to who you are. Don’t shy away from being vulnerable. Being vulnerable is hard because we are afraid of judgement but if we are bold enough to be us, we craft our brand and we become irreplaceable.
5. Hire Wonderful People. Hire amazing people and let them work, let them be free! Let them use their creativity and empower them to do their best work!
6. Define success for yourself. Don’t listen to anyone else but yourself, create your own vision and set the perimeters to what you see as success. Live to your own standards.
7. Start doing it. Whatever you want to do, get started now! Even if its for 5 minutes a day, whatever it is, just start! Pursue that what you want, dont wait because tomorrow is not guaranteed.
8. Make the right choice. Live up to your standard, to your highest ideal of yourself. Don’t let your choices be guided by fear but by boldness.
9. Learn from the great. Surround yourself with amazing people, learn from them, be open to their influence.
10. Have fun. Always make time to enjoy life, to be grateful! Make time for those things that light up your soul, even if its 5 minutes a day, don’t let the child inside of you die, that wonder for the world!

Source of list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsBobiIwEV0

Are You Causing Your Own Unhappiness? – Ed Myllet interview with Aubrey Marcus

1. Let yourself be happy, it is completely a choice. Everything you do is absolutely a choice! You always have a choice! Become the master of your fate!
2. A committed marriage let’s you take all the negative energy of jealousy, envy, fear etc. out of the equation. You can then spend your life creating a solid future as well as progress for your dreams and for others. Yes being in a relationship is a choice, a choice that allows freedom to grow. – Youtube comment left by Suzann
3. As a former pastor and counselor, I have sat at the death bed. I have seen and heard that sadness of not living life more. And I mean that more. More love, more joy, more adventure. I had a millionaire tell me, he would trade all his money for one day of joy! It blew my mind! – Youtube comment left by Legacy Builder 2121
4. You can choose to be in a new relationship with the same person. Everyday you wake up with a choice to love and respect your partner. It is a choice to love.
5. Have hope! Allow yourself to develop hope! Develop faith!