- Nothing fails as well as a poor mindset.
- Your mindset determines most of your life.
- If you are not controlling your mindset, then who is?
- The proper mindset has historically overcome every obstacle and setback.
- The proper mindset has historically overcome every disadvantage and unfairness.
3D: Daily Dose of Discernment
© 2026 by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice. Daily quotations cover topics crucial to your emotional and behavioral health, including emotional and psychological skills, psychotherapy, psychology, philosophy, spirituality, General Semantics, Eastern psychology and philosophy, meditation, flow, social commentary, responsibility, authenticity, identity, and the self. Visit https://kevinfitzmaurice.com or Amazon and Google Play for Kevin's 72 books in ebook, paperback, hardback, and audiobook formats.
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Who Controls Your Mindset?: 03-01-2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
Know the Limits of Negative: 02-28-2026
- The negative never creates the positive.
- The negative can only spawn more negatives.
- The negative is a useful tool, never a useful product.
- The negative in charge will never result in the positive becoming in charge.
- The negative has its place and use in critiques and problem-solving, but never as a goal or purpose in itself.
Friday, February 27, 2026
Reframing Can Help You Reformulate: 02-27-2026
- Do you have disasters or tests?
- Do you have problems or challenges?
- Do you have hardships or new chances?
- Do you have disadvantages or opportunities?
- Do you have unfairness or new hope and courage?
- Do you have obstacles or windows of opportunity?
- Whatever they or something wants for you and what you respond with can be opposite in nature.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
React Less & Win More: 02-26-2026
- React less, pray more.
- React less, pause more.
- React less, forgive more.
- React less, choose perspective-taking more.
- You can react less when you are emotionally mature.
- You are emotionally mature when you are responsible for your feelings, but not anyone else’s.
Discipline Is Required by All Good: 02-25-2026
Without discipline, your dreams are dust.
Without discipline, your virtues are verbals.
Without discipline, your plans and purposes are pathetic.
Without discipline, your life will be one mess after another.
Without discipline, your good intentions are good for nothing.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Patience Is Required for Excellence: 02-24-2026
“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” —Leo Tolstoy
- Patience has a strong friend: perseverance.
- Patience is about waiting in the right manner.
- Patience is a virtue because it is an act of waiting.
- Patience is a power because it waits for the real power.
- Patience is allowing the ingredients to cure and mature.
The Pause That Refreshes: 02-23-2026
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” —Victor Frankl, (debated, but in tune with his ideas)
- Pause before thinking.
- Pause before speaking.
- Pause before answering.
- Pause before taking action.
- To pause is to wait, to wait is to honor God (the source), to honor God is to honor yourself.
- Waiting is the central characteristic of a well-functioning vessel, and pausing is an act of waiting.