Tag: life
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Everyone has their own insecurities
I am currently reading John Steinbeck’s classic novel East of Eden, which I highly recommend as it is packed full of timeless life wisdom about what means to be human. One of those nuggets of wisdom which caught my eye was a line: “A dragon killer, he was, a rescuer of damsels, and his small sins seemed…
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Embrace it, change it, improve upon it
“Everything around you that you call life was made up by people no smarter than you. And you can change it; you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. And the minute you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push…
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How do you make people feel?
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou We are often unconscious of our emotions and how they impact others. We may be on a mission to achieve great things, but what good is it if…
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Easy or hard choices
“Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” Jerzy Gregorek This quote made me pause and reflect on the choices I make in my life. Do I make enough hard choices? Should I be making more hard choices? Hard vs easy choices I understand hard choices as being those things which are challenging to get…
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Why wait to be happy
“Above all, there is one mistake you cannot afford to make, you cannot wait until you have solved all your problems to be happy.” – Sam Harris Most of us believe that “one day” we will be happy, when we accomplish everything. But the problems never stop. Life is a series of never ending problems.…
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Reinvent yourself
“He not busy being born is busy dying.” – Bob Dylan Many of us have had to find ways to reinvent ourselves during these difficult times. I know I have. What I have found is that through struggle and then reinvention also comes great meaning and fulfillment. Although it has been challenging, it feels more…
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Is authenticity overrated?
“If you go to see Hamilton on Broadway when it reopens, you’re certainly hoping for no one in the cast to be authentic, you want everyone in the cast to give their best possible performance.” Seth Godin I recently heard Seth Godin challenging the popular idea of “being authentic”. Seth’s statement got me thinking as…
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Time for a little gratitude
“Remember what it was like to want all that you now have – and then realise that you now have it.” Sam Harris We are often racing so fast from one challenge to the next that we never stop and realise how far we have come in our journey. Take a step back Look at…
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Can trust exist without authenticity?
“With that privilege (of being different) comes a very sincere temptation to hold back who we are. And if we hold back who we are, we are less likely to be trusted. And if we are less likely to be trusted, we are less likely to be given stretch assignments. And without those stretch assignments,…
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Why you should believe in others
“If we take man as he is, we make him worse, but if we take man as he should be, we make him capable of what he can be.” Viktor Frankl Viktor Frankl was a neurologist and psychiatrist who developed the psychotherapy approach Logotheraphy, which is based on the idea that the primary motivation for…