Fortune favors the audacious. – Erasmus
Even the smallest audacaities matter.
Sometimes just doing something a little daring, a tiny bit bold, is what sets you on a path that changes your life in wonderful and profound ways.
Don’t worry that your boldness seems small; all that matters is that you act.
It just occurred to me that maybe I’ve never really understood “motivation.” Oh sure, I’ve learned that it’s better to be inspired than motivated and better to motivated than coerced. But what is motivation, really? Motivation isn’t something real or actual. It’s a word that describes what happens when one puts a motive into action….
Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. – Frank Tyger They are both important. Are you doing both? Either?
You can’t make people change. You can’t make yourself change. People make choices based on the best information they have available, according the concerns most pressing at the time. What’s more, we biologically constructed to resist and avoid change. Change equals the unknown. And we have deep genetic programming to avoid the unknown and stick…
Failure is success if we learn from it. – Malcolm Forbes Quite simply, you fail when give up or refuse to learn from non-ideal or un-desired outcomes. There is such thing as “failure.” Everything produces a result, it’s up to you to do something with all your outcomes.
Are you disaster-tolerant? (Do you have reserves?) This question is well-posed in Seth Godin’s blog post (here it is in its entirety): Not all disasters can be avoided. Not all disasters are fatal. If you accept these two truths, your approach to risk will change. If you build a disaster-tolerant nation or project or lifestyle,…
I was just thinking about an exercise I could do with clients where we take a client goal, close our eyes and vividly imagine what it will be like when the goal is achieved. We would stir up positive, constructive, emotions and actually experience the feelings that would accompany the new reality (that would exist…