Category: Mindset
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Caught in the past and future
“If you’re not mindful, you might spend much of your day feeling like you’re fleeing a burning building or swimming to dry land after a shipwreck.” Sam Harris We spend much of our time thinking about the past and future. We can’t change what happened in the past, although we can learn from it. And…
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Make time for thinking
“You were born with the greatest weapon in all of nature—the rational, conscious mind. It has the power to expand your vision far and wide, giving you the unique capacity to distinguish patterns in events, learn from the past, glimpse into the future, see through appearances.” Robert Greene We all have a powerful tool in…
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It can all be taken away, but we still have one choice
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” Viktor Frankl Life can suddenly change in the space of a day. Yesterday things seemed to be smooth sailing, and everything was fine.…
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What we focus on makes a difference
“The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.” Sharon Salzberg We often find our minds swept away into negative thought patterns. It doesn’t take long before this spirals out of control, and we are living out every doomsday scenario which has not yet happened. I have been practising trying…
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A career with no regrets
“I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” Lucille Ball Do you ever think about the things you might regret in the future? I was out at lunch today. Someone at the table asked about how my career is going. Here we usually default to a generic response like…
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Open questions get richer responses
“We live in the world our questions create.” David Cooperrider Do you find the conversations throughout your workday often fall flat? Maybe the right types of questions aren’t being asked. The way you ask a question usually determines the kind of response you get. A simple place to start is looking at your default form…
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The costs of not making a decision
“Everyone looks at the costs of making a decision. But almost no one looks at the costs of not making the decision.” Jordan Peterson You know that decision you have been putting off? The one that weighs on your mind. The one that keeps you up at night. The one that captures you first thing…
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Suffering for the weekend
“It’s actually a problem to really look forward to holidays and to weekends. It indicates two things: 1) It takes the joy out of the everyday. Because now you’re living in the future and suffering the rest of the time. 2) You have accepted a way of life in which most of your time is…
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Prepare mentally for the day’s encounters
“When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly.” Marcus Aurelius The great stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius prepared his mind daily for what he was about to face. This is so that it became no shock to him when he…
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Our choices matter, regardless of ‘Free Will’
“You can’t take credit for your talents, but it matters that you use them. You can’t truly be blamed for your flaws, but it matters that you correct upon them.What does make sense is a commitment to wellbeing, to improving your life, and the lives of everyone around you.” Sam Harris I was listening to…