The journal · original insights by theme
Wings, purpose & personal growth
Autonomy, courage and becoming more fully yourself.
These are draft editorial groupings for review, not Matt’s original sequence. Each insight keeps its source number and exact wording; entries remain in source order within each theme. Read the complete original list in order.
This personal collection includes opinions, incomplete notes and unverified attributions. Categorisation does not validate a claim or turn it into professional advice.
79 original insights · Draft grouping
- No. 002
Can’t never did anything, can did! ………….(Nan: “and you will”) - Bridget Buckley
- No. 005
Life has to be lived forward…but it only makes sense in reverse.
- No. 007
You only die once, so live every day.
- No. 009
Growth and comfort do not co-exist.
- No. 011
Only boring people get bored (Nan, Bridget Buckley)
- No. 015
Not all those who wander are lost.
- No. 021
Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
- No. 023
Have a preference for Action.
- No. 030
Your only limitation is your knowledge around what you need to do and the psychology of implementing it.
- No. 036
The mountain is always tallest from the bottom
- No. 049
Creativity, is the generation of original ideas that have value - Sir Andrew Robinson.
- No. 054
Discipline + consistency = Growth.
- No. 055
Pain + Reflection = Progress.
- No. 059
Conscious competence model - knowing or not knowing something exists and being competent / trained to deal with it or incompetent. Unconscious incompetence, then becomes, conscious incompetence, Then becomes conscious competence, and ideally becomes unconscious competence. Good example of this is learning new language / communication techniques then bringing them in to your language and over time they become tools you unconsciously use competently through your training and repetition.
- No. 077
Mastery is the absence of doubt. (Whatever the problem of need you have the confidence you can create a solution)
- No. 081
‘Failed’ slaps you in public, ‘success’ hugs you in private.
- No. 100
Don’t feed your problems with thoughts, starve them with actions.
- No. 109
Embracing what is uncomfortable is a prerequisite for learning.
- No. 112
We each have two lives. The one we are living and the un-lived life we have the potential to live. What lays between the two is no more than the cumulative effect of the choices we make each day.
- No. 125
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- No. 135
Have something to learn not something to prove.
- No. 152
Passion is an alignment between origin, mission and Vision.
- No. 158
You show up for yourself by choosing to show up for the things that add value to your life.
- No. 165
The only constant in life is change.
- No. 166
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
- No. 168
Balance isn’t found it’s created.
- No. 169
Good art borrows, great art steals.
- No. 170
Time flies when you’re having fun.
- No. 174
I plant things, the green bit goes up.
- No. 179
The iron doesn’t lie.
- No. 190
Time flies when you’re having fun.
- No. 192
You shouldn’t take advice from people who are not where you want to be in life.
- No. 193
Sometimes new beginnings are, disguised and bad endings.
- No. 215
What the hand does the mind remembers.
- No. 223
Be, Do, Have.
- No. 226
It only takes a little bit of effort to have a whole lotta fun.
- No. 230
May your desires be greater than your obstacles.
- No. 232
everything you lose creates space for everything you need.
- No. 238
Upfront pain always leads to long term gain.
- No. 240
What you’re not changing your choosing.
- No. 241
The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you understand why.
- No. 246
Comfort zones are just prisons you decorate
- No. 248
Big dreams go to die, in the planning place, there are so many bones of big dreams there in that graveyard. There will always be a set of reasons to wait, but when are we gonna take the risk.
- No. 257
Don’t attach yourself to a person place or organisation, only attach yourself to a mission, calling or purpose.
- No. 258
If Discipline forged your body, experience sharpened your mind & struggle refined your spirit, you’ve built yourself into something unstoppable
- No. 263
Your life doesn’t get that I by chance gets better by change
- No. 275
Balance and abundance.
- No. 277
Enjoyment, satisfaction and purpose.
- No. 283
Life has to be lived forward…but it only makes sense in reverse.
- No. 285
Don’t be fooled growth is always an ongoing commitment, don’t stop making it your task, it’s your priority never something in the past.
- No. 286
Have blind faith in your ability to learn and get better.
- No. 290
Pain is Temporary, Growth is Permanent
- No. 292
Adversity is a Mirror
- No. 293
Some Doors Are Meant to Close
- No. 294
Happiness is a Byproduct of Meaning
- No. 318
99% of your happiness in 3 questions: • What am I working on and why? • Who am I spending time with and why? • How well and I’m treating my body, and why?
- No. 320
Two most important things to do are looking at things and doing stuff.
- No. 321
The price of progress is pain.
- No. 322
The price of wisdom Is experience.
- No. 324
The price of success is failure.
- No. 332
If you can’t change your life change you hair.
- No. 337
Inspired by the fear of being average.
- No. 340
Not every closed door is locked, push.
- No. 347
School teaches you to obey but success requires you to challenge. School rewards memorisation the real world rewards creative problem-solving. School teaches you to wait your turn but winners don’t wait.
- No. 353
The only thing that’s stopping you from getting what you want is the story you’re telling yourself about why you can’t have it.
- No. 359
If you’re gonna try go all the way otherwise don’t even start.
- No. 360
The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones, they just had better ideas!
- No. 369
The price you have to pay for becoming great is…first….You have to be a little bit shit. Or the price of being good at something is to be as at it first.
- No. 370
Don’t stop when you’re tired stop when you’re done.
- No. 375
If you lack confidence build evidence.
- No. 384
Old habits do not open new doors. Eliminate to evolve.
- No. 405
It doesn’t matter whether you’re bad or good at doing the thing, the only way to get good at doing it is by doing the thing regardless. Another way to say it is the cost of being good at something is to be terrible at it first.
- No. 406
Focus on the action rather than making judgement of the action.
- No. 407
An extraordinary life has an extraordinary price.
- No. 413
It doesn’t make sense to keep wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.
- No. 414
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
- No. 417
The world doesn’t reward potential or promises it just rewards Action.
- No. 425
Everything is a win when the goal is experience.
- No. 426
Don’t let being right keep you stuck let being free push you forward.