Adam J. Kurtz Books & Quotes

“You're not a bad person for comparing yourself to others. You're not a bad person for measuring where you are against where you're not. But you deserve better. Comparing yourself to others seems useful, and maybe feels good when you're "winning" but hurts even more when you're not. Either way, it's a false equivalency that doesn't yield any kind of practical metric.”

People Winning Comparison

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“Life demands we work to live, life requests we work more if we want more of the fun stuff, and the fun stuff demands we keep going for "just one more" drink or episode or hour or mile. This isn't inherently bad, even when it is exhausting.”

Life Fun Work Demans

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“It’s hard to have patience, especially when you aren’t actually sure what you’re waiting for. Have you ever felt ready for the next thing, but not sure what that thing is?”

Work Patience The Next Thing

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Things will happen unexpectedly and you may be impacted in a way you were not prepared for. (This is actually extremely likely.)”

Life Change Circumstances

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“You may find yourself forced to adapt to the new reality despite being changed in a foundational way. The impulse is to want to "go back to normal," but this endless adapting IS normal.”

Change Normal Adapt

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Every connection, whether it’s romantic, business, or friendship, is all about us meeting at particular moments in our lives when we’re ready, open, and have had enough of the various experiences we needed to have previously, in order to bring us to this one, at this point in time, together, and have it stick.”

Love Friendship Business Relationship Connection

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Sometimes, "busy" is shorthand for something else, in the same way that "tired" can mean anything from physically exhausted to extremely depressed.”

Tired Busy Depressed Busy Life

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“You can try to organize your experience but you can not actually control time itself. Try to enjoy moments of rest when they come. The waiting is part of it.”

Time Waiting Rest

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Social media in particular shapes reality into something that feels competitive, because not only do we work to present the most idealized version of ourselves (or at least a specific version) we then opt in to real-time judgment: A system of likes and comments that purports to confirm or deny our “content’s” inherent worth in a way that we all understand is negative and even harmful, but also doesn’t stop us from paying attention.”

Self Competition Social Media

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“There will be a lot of adapting. There will be a lot of letting go. It is scary but necessary work to make, do, and make do in the service of becoming a version of yourself you can feel content living with. Release the baggage, your scars will be reminder enough of the lessons learned in the process.”

Learning Lessons Self Improvement Release Scars Baggage Adapt

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“For many of us (me) the hardest part of trying anything is feeling like it’s going to be difficult. We are lazy. We are tired. But mostly, we are afraid we won’t be good at it, and then we will fail. We will fail and not win and be bad and everyone will know it, and we will know it, we will have quantitative proof of an attempt being made and not being good enough.”

Fear Failure Self Worth

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Failure is one of two main options in most scenarios. Failure happens. All the time. Constantly.”

Failure

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“People love to attribute success to hard work, and that’s a huge part of it. Most things don’t happen by accident and are the product of effort. But so much relies on good timing, whether that’s being in the right place at any given moment, being uniquely positioned for an opportunity, or just connecting with another person at the exact right time for them, in their lives, too.”

Success Luck Accidents Opportunities Timing

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“If you could strip away all your distraction and obligations, who would you be left with?”

Distraction Person Being Human Being Obligations

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Mereka bukan orang sibuk-sibuk. Mereka hanyalah orang-orang kurang ajar.”

Inspiring Self Help

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

“Percayalah pada dirimu sendiri seperti kamu percaya pada orang-orang yang kamu cintai.”

Inspiring Self Help

Book:You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

Source: You Are Here (For Now): A Guide to Finding Your Way

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