Ya' catch more bees with honey
"You are fool enough, it seems, to dare war with me, when for your faithful ally you might win me easily." - Aristophanes Who do you have a conflict with now? How about being genuinely nice?
We do – we feel
We don't feel like doing the thing we should. Should we wait until we feel like it? If we do that, we'd never do the thing we should. Do it. Get your body in motion. Step out the door. Go. When we do it, we'll start to feel…
Are you "done"?
If we have made up our minds on everything, defined the boundaries around our life and world, and live the same weeks over and over... Are you "done", or is there more to experience, more to learn, more places to go, things to try, our own opinions to change, and…
Fulfill your personal legend
Paulo Coelho, in his book "The Alchemist", tells us that we have a personal legend to fulfill. If we have a deep desire, it was put in us for a reason. It's the universe begging to express itself through us. What's is your "Personal Legend" that needs to be fulfilled?
Are you free?
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to chose and commit yourself to what is best for you. Have you chosen your path voluntarily?
Do something scary
Things scare us because we tell ourselves they do, and we retract and live inside those self-imposed boundaries. If we limit ourselves, we live small. To live bigger, do the things that scare you. Soon enough, they won't scare you so much, and maybe not at all. You'll get your…
A Vision for Your Life
Ten years from now, what does your life look like? What are you doing? Who and what kind of people are around you? How do you spend your day? What do you contribute? Where do you live? How do you live? You go around once. Get clear, and get going.
Commitment
You said you would. But that was a different day, and now you don't feel like it so much. But you said it. They heard it. You heard it. You knew it's what you should do... but other things came up today. They expect you to. Your credibility is…
Desire and Urgency
Everybody wants something, and they know they will have to do something, or a lot of somethings to get it. But they put it off. And they put it off some more. Do they still want it? Sure. Desire without a sense of urgency is wasted. You have to get…
Be influenced – on purpose.
We can't help but be influenced by the people around us. Who has qualities, thinking, vision, knowledge, character or ambitions that you'd like to have more of? Get around them. Be influenced.
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I have a sign on my office wall that says, “Nice Matters”. So silly that we have to post a sign to remind people.
Great words to live by!