Next Opportunity
“Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.” – Arthur Pine
Love
Whatever you do today, remember ONE thing.
That in the end, all that really matters is the love!
Did you seek it?
Did you find it?
But most importantly – DID YOU GIVE IT?
Remember the LOVE!
– Veronica Hay
Distractions
“Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.” – Derek Sivers
Loved this, because it is so true – how much of your day today was pursuing your big dream and how much was little distractions? How about your week, or the month of October, or the year 2011? Time moves by so quickly, don’t let the little distractions take you out of the game.
Motion
“Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress” -Alfred A. Montapert
It is always interesting when you think about how much of your day is spent doing things that keep us busy, but don’t really provide any real progress. I talk about how busy I am, but I also have time wasters that drain some of those precious hours in my day. One of my goals for this week is to try and do some time blocking and get some of my projects finished. That will clear up some of my mind clutter and allow for clarity in my thinking, which will help me make some progress.
Focus
Great advice on how to have a great relationship with friends and family – Love what you can love and let the rest go. We all have good points, focus on the positive. As long as the negative isn’t abusive in some way, just let it go.
Want
“All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it — tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if It should really become manifest –if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself — you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say, ‘Here at last is the thing I was made for.’ We cannot tell each other about it. It is the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work.”
Pioneer
“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.” – Deepak Chopra
It is easy to just exist in life, going to work, coming home, parking in front of the TV and off to bed and rinse and repeat each day. You become a prisoner of your routine, a life where you have become your own jailer. Instead you can blaze a new trail, taking the road less traveled and create a life that will astound you.
Soaring
“Why does the thrill of soaring have to begin with the fear of falling?” – from the book, The Push
This line is in reference to mother eagles who push their babies out of the nest to get them to fly. Every time we learn something new or expand our comfort zone, we have the fear of falling or failing. But when we take that chance and do it anyway, we have the potential of our spirit soaring as we take our life to new heights. That is what the last 4 days was all about – getting up in front of my peers and taking the chance of falling. The flying was a little tricky here and there, but I definetly did some soaring tool
Limitations
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” – James R. Cook
I don’t usually pay attention to other people’s limitations, as I know what I can do and I just do it. But this made me wonder how many times I have imposed with well meaning advice, my own limitations on others, discouraging them with all of the reasons that something can’t work. Something new to think about when someone asks for advice. Letting them know what you see as potential pitfalls or considerations without making it a limitation would mean that you would treat it like an employee review? Start with the good idea that they have, sandwich in the consideration, and end with you know they can do it? Or do you think that you would do it differently?
Anxiety
“Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, but only empties today of its strength.” – Charles Spurgeon
They say that only 8% of what we worry about ever happens. Whether you worry about money, about if you are going to find a job, or if you are going to lose one, about health or personal relationships, we are not living in the present. We are second guessing a future that hasn’t happened yet, We are robbing the present of the happiness or joy that we should be having. Even if our worst feeling about the future does happen, our worrying over it today doesn’t change it. Instead we should be grabbing all of the happiness that we can each moment that we are alive, because those precious moments don’t come back again.
Clutter
To experience a simplified life, we first have to learn to slow down long enough to see through all the clutter. The clutter is everything that we fill up our lives with sometimes by choice and sometimes by default which is also a choice – your job, the appointments you make in your life, your email, FB, TV, errands, work, school…, look at all of it. The busyness of our lives that causes us to say that we don’t have enough time to do it all. Our choices created this chaos and our choices can change the chaos. So slow down – examine what is truly important and simply your life – use your choices to pluck out the time wasters, so that you have time for what is truly important.