“Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
Always do great work. Whether you’re brushing your teeth, or making your child’s lunch, or driving to work, or… do great work.
The most important person you can keep your word to is yourself. I had a thought the other day, and didn’t capture it at the time (bad Matt . . . !), but want to (try to) re-construct it now. The gist was that we have many of the troubles we do in life because we…
There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world. – Robert Louis Stevenson . . . because it has two important benefits: 1) you get to be happy 2) you serve as a living, breathing model of what to do….
What do you want? I mean, what do you really, really want? * * * (Assuming you came up with what you really, really want:) What do you want more? Huh? Whatever it is that you have (now), is what you want more. WHAT!? Whatever it is you want most is what you are creating….
Some people have to do things. They “have to go to work.” They “have to pick their kids up.” They “have to [insert the onerous, terrible task].” There’s two levels of dysfunction here: 1) What about people who don’t have jobs? What about people that would love to have kids? Does anyone think they would say…
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. – John Wooden One of the things I love about John Wooden is his focus on 1) fundamentals (/habits) and 2) doing the best you can, irrespective of…
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. – William Shakespeare You have good ideas, don’t you? You have have good, worthy ideas about what you want to create, and support and otherwise shepherd into the World, right? Of course you do. * * * Take action. Begin. Step forward, take a risk…