/ clarity.txt
clarity.txt
  1  One might find oneself struggling to focus as in:   
  2  "An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production."
  3  Those who seek such creative production, might appreciate these words:   
  4  "Clarity affords focus."   
  5  Those who seek to know what to focus on, might appreciate these words:   
  6  "What you focus on expands. Focus on what you are best at and you will be unstoppable."   
  7  One might then appreciate this advice:   
  8  "Challenges are opportunities for me to grow. The more I learn, the more equipped I am to handle whatever situations come up."   
  9  Those who do not know what to learn, might appreciate these words:   
 10  "Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits."   
 11  One might appreciate these words to recognize what has been the limit:    
 12  "If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse."   
 13  Those who seek to stop finding an excuse might appreciate these words:
 14  "You can find 1000 excuses not to do something but all you need is one reason to do it."
 15  Those who seek to find such reason, might appreciate these words:
 16  "If you died tomorrow what would you regret? Now is the time to eliminate those regrets."
 17  Those who cannot find anything to regret, might appreciate these words:
 18  "Regret is a tough but fair teacher. To live without regret is to believe you have nothing to learn, no amends to make, and no opportunity to be braver with your life."
 19  Those who are overwhelmed with their past regrets, might appreciate these words:
 20  "Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable."
 21  Those who think that they might be inconsolable, might appreciate these words:
 22  "Don’t live your life regretting yesterday. Live your life so tomorrow you won’t regret today."
 23  Those who seek not to regret today in the future, might appreciate these words:
 24  "If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!"
 25  Those who seek to plan, might appreciate these words:
 26  "Write it down. Written goals have a way of transforming wishes into wants; cant’s into cans; dreams into plans; and plans into reality. Don’t just think it – ink it!"
 27  Those who then seek to plan, might appreciate these words:
 28  "Planning is a skill and an art which takes a lifetime to master."
 29  Those who seek to master such skill, might appreciate the following words of encouragement:
 30  "If the plan doesn't work, change the plan, not the goal."
 31  Those who don't know what to change about their plan, might appreciate these words:
 32  "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
 33  Those who seek to understand one's own priorities, might appreciate these words:   
 34  "Decide what your priorities are and how much time you’ll spend on them. If you don’t, someone else will."   
 35  One might appreciate the following way to priorize:   
 36  Priority A: Important and urgent - Do it now   
 37  Priority B: Important but not urgent - Schedule it   
 38  Priority C: Not important but urgent - Delegate it   
 39  Priority D: Not important and not urgent - Decide not to do it.   
 40  Regarding Priority D, one might appreciate the following words:   
 41  "The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do."   
 42  Those who seek to know what not to do, might appreciate these words:    
 43  "Courage is knowing what not to fear."    
 44  Those who hesitate to act because of the fear of failure, might appreciate these words:   
 45  "A man is great not because he hasn't failed; a man is great because failure hasn't stopped him."
 46  Those who seek such greatness, might appreciate these words:    
 47  "Greatness is never achieved by trying to imitate the greatness of another. Greatness is chipping away at all that does not belong to you and then expressing yourself so truly that others can’t help but recognize it."    
 48  Those who seek to know, what might remain after one has been chipping away at all that does not belong to oneself, might appreciate these words:
 49  "The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."   
 50  Those who seek to create such legacy, migth appreciate these words:
 51  "If life is to be sustained, hope must remain."
 52  Those who seek to understand such hope, might appreciate the chapter on hope. 
 53  Those who struggle recognize such hope for their own lives, might appreciate these words:    
 54  "Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
 55  Those who do not know, what one might want to show others, might appreciate these words:    
 56  "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens."   
 57  Those who seek to "look inside" of oneself, might appreciate the note that "inside" is a figure of speech for introspection. Those who seek understand why and what to look for might appreciate these words:   
 58  "You really have to look inside yourself to find your inner strength."
 59  Those who seek to find such strength might appreciate these words:   
 60  "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."   
 61  Those who seek clarity of vision might appreciate these words:   
 62  "Surely clarity is the most beautiful thing in the world, a limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any motive of poetry but to achieve clarity."
 63  One might find a reason why that might be in the following realization:   
 64  "Accuracy and clarity of statement are mutually exclusive."   
 65  Those who wonder why the author of this document might seek accuracy, might appreciate these words:   
 66  "Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology."    
 67  Those who seek to understand why such accuracy might be important, might appreciate these words:
 68  "Accuracy means something to me. It’s vital to my sense of values. I’ve learned not to trust people who are inaccurate. Every aviator knows that if mechanics are inaccurate, aircraft crash. If pilots are inaccurate, they get lost-sometimes killed. In my profession life itself depends on accuracy."
 69  Those who then seek to live, might appreciate to know that an example of such a "free flow of information" is transparency as in:
 70  "Honesty is telling the truth upon request, transparency is disclosing the truth deliberately." (The author needs to find the original quote)
 71  Those who seek to understand the term epistemology might appreciate the chapter on "curiosity".
 72  Those who seek to understand one reason why clarity might also might be worth pursueing, might appreciate these words:   
 73  "Clarity is a perception; it’s an emotional alignment of thoughts, intuitions, inclinations, expression and expectations."   
 74  One might appreciate another way to express clarity as in:   
 75  "Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels."   
 76  Those who seek to be defined by their clarity, might appreciate these words:
 77  "My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."   
 78  Those who yet seek such a place, might appreciate the chapter on "home".   
 79  Those who seek such a new way of seeing might appreciate these words:
 80  "Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is a nightmare."   
 81  Those who seek to understand vision might appreciate these words:   
 82  "Vision is the ability to talk about the future with such clarity it is as if we are talking about the past."   
 83  Those who seek such future might appreciate these words:   
 84  "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."     
 85  Those who seek to prepare, might appreciate these words:    
 86  "First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst."
 87  Those who seek to improve on the worst, might appreciate these words:   
 88  "Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living."    
 89  Those who has lost their reason for living, might appreciate these words:
 90  "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
 91  Those who seek to continue, might appreciate these words:
 92  "Continual improvement is an unending journey."
 93  Those who are devastated by such an realization, might find courage in the following realization:
 94  "The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart."   
 95  Those who seek towards such heights might appreciate these words:
 96  "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits."   
 97  Those who are tempted by the idea to quit might appreciate these words:
 98  "The magic you are looking for is in the work your avoiding."   
 99  Those who seek to overcome such avoidance of work, might appreciate these words:    
100  "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."    
101  Those who seek to understand such cooperation, might appreciate these words:    
102  "Cooperation means to be willing to sacrifice for the sake of others."
103  Those who are tempted to give up their own life to love others, might appreciate these words:  
104  "You can always die. It’s living that takes real courage."
105  Those who struggle to find such courage, might appreciate these words:
106  "If you don't sacrifice for what you want, what you want becomes the sacrifice."
107  Those who do not know what to sacrifice, might appreciate these words:
108  "Do something today that your future self will thank you for."    
109  Those who seek to do such action one's future self might appreciate, might appreciate the idea to recite the following mantra:   
110  "We are all on the way to Pro."