Do. It. Now.
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. – Calvin Coolidge
Don’t let the wish to do “everything” negate the necessity of doing something.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read. – Mark Twain I may have blogged this quote before, but it bears repeating. I believe our human lives are an amazing gift. We have an amazing opportunity with our human bodies, brains and minds. I will admit that I…
When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. – Pema Chodron Do…
He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Dutch proverb The hardest thing about anything is starting. Not because the first step is the hardest of the steps, compared to the others. But because there is Safety and anything (and everything) else. It’s kinda like going swimming…
Change is hard. In a way, that’s good (so you don’t make bad changes too easily). But what about good changes? The ones you both need and want to make? How do you make those changes? You must master* the following three “meta” skills: Awareness There are things that are hidden, unseen or otherwise obscured that you…
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. – Josh Billings Life is perfect. “Perfect” in the sense that everything happens because of the choices each of us makes, and the combination and accumulation of all of our choices. Things are perfect because they cannot be any other way….
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astonish ourselves. – Thomas Edison Yeah, doing everything you’re capable of would blow your doors off, but to even contemplate such is massive. Instead, just attempt half, or a quarter, or even an eighth of what you think you are capable of….