My actions are my only true belongings. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Your legacy, what you truly leave behind, is what you’ve done.
All your possessions are fleeting and can be lost in an instant — and will fade and decay anyway.
What endures are the choices you made, the work you’ve done and lives you’ve touched.
Concern yourself less with “stuff” and more – much more – with what you do.
Default. Habitual. Less-than-fully-Conscious. Routine. Comfortable. The Usual. So much of what we do is out of habit. It’s routine. It’s just the way we do it. There’s good reason for how this happens and why. We’re built to create and use routines and habits. It’s efficient. It leaves room to focus on threats and survival. It’s primitive….
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. – William James I had a powerful conversation with my coach recently and one of the things we talked about was “cares.” Another word would be priorities. What I’m talking about is the difference between what we say we want (fantasies, desires,…
Anything worth doing is worth planning (at least once). Lest I lose a potential reader who may think “Why plan small tasks? They’re small… ” let me say that even small tasks can benefit from a careful – albeit quick – planning session. Maybe there’s a better way of doing things, or maybe new resources are available…
In terms of what you do, I mean? Should you, as so many say, love what you do? Read this article and come back . . . . * * * So, what do you think? Has your answer changed, or evolved even? I think, as the author does as well (in his own way),…
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. – T.S. Eliot What we can do and what we think we can do are so often far apart. The problem is 1) we are (generally/overwhelmingly) so wrong about what we’re truly capable of and 2) we take our…
“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein The idea that our language creates our world (each of our worlds… ) is very compelling for me. I have long said that humans are meaning-seeking and meaning-creating creatures. We must not only understand our world, but make sense of it,…