Tag: possibility
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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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Staying true
“The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.” Dave Chapelle Do you ever find you have drifted off the path from who you thought you were? It can be hard to stay true to ourselves in today’s world. We feel the weight of other people’s expectations and…
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Take a step forward
Just start. Don’t start by asking, ‘what is my passion?’. Start by asking, ‘what are the problems that need to be solved? Which ones attract me?’ And take a step towards that.” – Jacqueline Novogratz We get hung up on the idea of passion or purpose is. We feel constant pressure to have it all…
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When to make the change
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.” – Chinese Proverb I wish I made my change five or ten years ago.
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The cost of maintaining the status quo
I felt like I always had to work twice as hard as others to get there and sustain it. But it was draining me and didn’t feel natural. It was making me unhappy and burning me out.
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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…