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.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein I’ll grant you, not everything is going to feel like a “miracle.” But the bigger point here is that how you approach things matters. The set…
I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis…
What do you want, and what are you doing to keep it out of your life? I originally titled this post “What Stops Us,” but it didn’t work for me. On the one hand, I realized it was a huge question and I didn’t want to write a 1,000+ word post. And on another, I…
Whatever is incomplete in your life is a drain on your energy. Incompletes are open cognitive loops that demand constant mental energy (whether conscious or not). I am not suggesting that you’ll never has incomplete things in your life. You will. But it matters what “form” they’re in. I recently realized that there are three…
Don’t do what you sincerely don’t want to do. – Ernest Hemingway * * * There are all sorts of opinions, and myths, about Millennials (the generation born between 1980 and 2000) and work. Yes, it’s true that Millennials have different professional values, but certain things don’t change. There are timeless principles that apply to…
A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner Where do you think you’ve “failed?” Have you given up on “that?” What if you took what you learned and began again, more intelligently? What if…