Tag: meaning
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What are you accumulating?
“What we do accumulates; the future is the result of what we do right now.”
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Irrational fears getting in the way
Some fears are genuine and serve us well to keep us safe, but we spend much of our days worrying about extreme scenarios that realistically will never happen.
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Seeking more meaning, purpose and fulfilment
What are three things to ask someone seeking more meaning, purpose and fulfilment? “What do they love doing? What are they good at doing? What does the world need from them?” Jacqueline Novogratz We get hung up on searching for “our passion”. We feel guilty about not having some superhero career. We would like to…
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Better holidays
“We often live with a forward momentum. When you suddenly stop, it can feel like musical chairs, and the music has just stopped and your standing there and you don’t have a chair. And that’s really disconcerting, because part of what we do, which I think leads to a lot of burnout and existential struggle,…
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Simply begin
“Simply begin. Make things better by making things. You can always improve it later” Seth Godin I love the line – “make things better by making things”. How good is that feeling of self-accomplishment when we actually make something that is valuable or meaningful to us. By making things we also make ourselves better. It…
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A new year
Are you excited for the opportunities and possibilities of 2022? Now is a good time to reflect on the year that has just been and plan for the year ahead. What are the top 5 things you learnt in 2021? What are you most excited about in 2022? What habits or routines would you like…
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Opportunities opening up
Do you ever notice how opportunities seem to open up just when you need them? We feel down and the future looks bleak. We loose sleep worrying about some existential threat which may or may not happen. How will we get out of this one? Next thing a solution seems to appear before our eyes.…
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To stay or go
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” J.P. Morgan Have you decided yet? We often get caught straddled between two places. Neither here nor there. No meaningful progress and time keeps slipping by. It can be scary to face up to change. So…
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Acting upon ambition
“To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls. Not to act upon that ambition is to turn our backs on ourselves and on the reason for our existence.” Steven Pressfield We feel those stirrings of ambition, but often we quickly shut them down. Who has time…