Here’s a short, but oh so sweet, post from Seth Godin:
Hope is fuel, it moves us forward and it amplifies our best work.
Expectation is the killer of joy, the shortest route to disappointment. When we expect that something will happen, we can’t help but be let down…
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When we understand and respect the difference between hope and expectation, our work, and lives, transform.
As I was preparing my coffee just a minute ago I had a realization: thoughts have consequences. Everyone can identify with the idea that actions have consequences, but thoughts? Yes, I believe so. Implementing this, effectively, does require a high level of awareness. We spend so much time with, and in, our thoughts that we ought to…
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not…
This post has been hanging around in my “Drafts” folder and I (just) wanted to get it out to you. Hopefully you can forgive the lack of insightful and entertaining commentary and enjoy the video. Click here to watch Derek Siver’s excellent video on creativity, and how we often sell ourselves short.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby The interesting thing about fear of failure is that it’s just one form of the fear of change. What people really fear is change. Why? Because our emotional brain references ancient programming from early Man that…
When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you. – Walter Payton What are you great at? What have you put the time in to be masterful at? If it’s something great, or even just pretty good, quite likely people are talking to you about it – about your talents,…
One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. – George C. Lichtenberg These are not steps, in the traditional sense, to be taken in sequence. Ideally one takes both steps simultaneously, throughout their lives. I don’t mean to say you question “everything” in the…