Tag: habits
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You are what you choose to become
“I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung It’s time to let go of what happened in the past. Maybe you accepted the wrong job and got stuck in an unfulfilling career. Perhaps you made terrible choices which cost you some relationships, time or money. It’s important…
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Continuous improvement
“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection” Mark Twain I had a busy week last week. Things felt a bit hectic, so I decided to take a few days off posting to the blog. I needed to focus on what was important at the time. Now I look back and have a slight regret for…
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Release the non-essential
It’s not the daily increase, but the decrease. Hack away at the unessential.” BRUCE LEE Western society generally promotes the idea of accumulating more. Advertising and marketing messages bombard us. The common thought seems to be earn more and spend more. It’s all about visual cues of “success” through a bigger house, a nicer car…
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Why not reframe this into an opportunity?
“Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.” William Arthur Ward I, like almost everyone else, was caught up in fear when the COVID-19 pandemic really took hold of the world. There were too many unknowns… What is happening? How bad is it? Will my family and friends be safe? Will…
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How big are your questions?
“Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” Voltaire Peter Thiel is known for asking big contrarian questions. You could argue that the success he has achieved as a billionaire entrepreneur and venture capitalist (co-founder of PayPal, Palantir, the first investor in Facebook, and co-author of Zero to One), resulted from the size…
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Don’t wait to make things better
“How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!” Anne Frank We all know there are things we can be doing to make our lives better. Think of all the small daily actions that make up our days, which then make up our whole…