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“Let your fear of regret be stronger than your fear of failure.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“At any given time, we all have room to grow and bloom, no matter where we are planted. No matter our season of life, we each have opportunities to learn more, develop more, give more.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Likewise, you can’t live a truly productive, contented, and joy-filled life while your finances are in complete disarray. A Good Life and financial stability go hand in hand.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“When we set goals that feel safe and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of.”
― Ruth Soukup, 31 Days To A Clutter Free Life: One Month to Clear Your Home, Mind & Schedule

“Fear is a funny thing.... The very instinct designed to protect us also holds us back.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“You see, when we set goals that feel safer and achievable, we are caving in to our own preconceived notions of what we are capable of. We’re not pushing past our comfort zone; we’re just settling for status quo.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“COURAGE doesn’t mean we are never scared. Courage is ACTION in the face of fear.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“contentment comes when we are able to make the conscious choice to turn our insecurities inside out, to focus on what we have to offer others rather than on how they can serve us.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“It’s okay to have your own opinion and for other people to disagree. Disagreement doesn’t mean they don’t like you.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“No one gets a free pass. None of us are guaranteed a perfectly pleasant journey free of hardship, struggle, and pain.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“It’s important to remember that mistakes and failure are just a normal part of life. Plus, it’s often our mistakes that teach us all the good stuff we need to know to keep moving forward!”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“When you can start looking at life as a series of lessons rather than mistakes, it will give you more freedom to experiment rather than always striving to achieve perfection.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“It is not the wealth — or the stuff — that kills us; it is the wanting, the longing, the absolutely insatiable desire for wealth, possessions, power, and status that eventually take over our hearts and minds, leaving room for little else. Whether or not we can afford it is totally irrelevant. What matters is the desire of our heart. Regardless of the never-quite-enough message society wants to give us, a life consumed by always wanting more is not the Good Life.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Abundance isn’t God’s provision for me to live in luxury. It’s his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money, not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven. Randy Alcorn”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Rules are for suckers.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Big goals provide the road map for our lives, the compass that tells us we’re moving in the right direction.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves. ROMANS 12:9 – 10”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“If your ultimate goal is not to have a home that looks like it belongs in a magazine or to drive a Cadillac Escalade, then what sense does it make to compare yourself - or your home or your vehicle - to the friends who has made that her primary objective?”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“My friends, I’m quite sure you all have a sweet spot too. My hope and prayer for you is that you will become fearless in all that you do, and you’ll dare to take the plunge, even when it means risking failure. Remember those words of Philippians 4:13 (NKJV): “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Don’t let the possibility of falling short deter you from trying. Don’t let the naysayers or that little voice in the back of your head prevent you from taking action. Don’t let the messiness or trial-and-error nature of the process deter you. You will make mistakes. You will screw up along the way. There may even be times when you have to admit defeat. Keep going. Use those lessons as opportunities to discover what doesn’t work, and always persevere.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“When you take ownership, you don’t have to worry about what happens to you or how other people might treat you or what obstacles might come your way, because ultimately you are in control.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Nothing builds up confidence faster than just taking action and doing it scared.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Make a point of practicing imperfect action—do one thing each day just to do it, not because it needs to be “right.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Holtz ended up writing down a list of 107 things in five different categories — things he wanted to achieve as a husband, things he wanted to do spiritually, things he wanted to achieve professionally, things he wanted to achieve financially, and things he wanted to do personally. Holtz’s list included some pretty audacious goals, such as becoming the Notre Dame football coach, meeting the president of the United States, landing on an aircraft carrier, and appearing on The Tonight Show — crazy things that would have caused most people to laugh at him for even considering. But guess what? Not only did Lou Holtz become the head football coach at Notre Dame, but he also led his team to a national championship. Among other things, he enjoyed dinner with Ronald Reagan at the White House, was a guest on The Tonight Show, met the pope, shot not one but two holes in one at golf, jumped out of an airplane, went on a safari in Africa, and, yes, he even landed on an aircraft carrier. To date, Lou Holtz has crossed off 102 of his 107 lifetime goals.9”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“The reality is that stuff does not bring happiness. Instead, buying more than we need breeds nothing but discontentment.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

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― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Buying nothing will always be cheaper than buying something on sale.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“Each morning we start our day filled with a certain amount of self-discipline, and as we go about our day, that resolve tends to drain out. When we start our day by focusing on the mundane and easy stuff, we waste our reserves. Eating our frogs first thing in the morning means having enough energy and discipline to truly get the important things done.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“The hard truth is that following our passion and living out our dreams is incredibly scary. There is a huge potential for failure. It makes us vulnerable to criticism from people who don’t understand. It gives others an opportunity to laugh at us or cut us down. It means taking a step into the unknown, where anything can happen, and where we don’t always have control. After all, it is much easier to find shelter in the known than risk the heartbreak of having it all come crashing down.”
― Ruth Soukup, Living Well, Spending Less: 12 Secrets of the Good Life

“I may not have control over everything, but I can take responsibility for the choices I make.”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love

“Try to put your “rejection” guard down, and don’t assume you’re being rejected anytime someone says no. Most of the time, they are not rejecting you!”
― Ruth Soukup, Do It Scared: Finding the Courage to Face Your Fears, Overcome Adversity, and Create a Life You Love