We don’t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change. We can initiate change right now. There are endless starting points.
The first and most important step is to realize that, as my mother used to say, fearlessness isn’t the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear. It’s not that you never have fear, but that you don’t let your fears stop you.
To live exuberantly, we must be prepared to illuminate the dark spots in ourselves.
The more fearless we are in our personal lives, the more of that spirit we’ll bring to changing our world.
Being fearless doesn’t mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don’t hold us back.
Being a mother is the role I’m most proud of.
Creating the culture of burnout is opposite to creating a culture of sustainable creativity. This is something that needs to be taught in business schools. This mentality needs to be introduced as a leadership and performance-enhancing tool.
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.
For a hot-shot CEO taking over a troubled company, mass firings are the ultimate quick fix, the accounting equivalent of crack: cheap, easy to score, instantly gratifying, and highly addictive.
Failure is a stepping stone to success.
There is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent – because everyday fears – like not being approved of – pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
I’ve always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.
We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don’t live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?
We are not on this earth to accumulate victories, things, and experiences, but to be whittled and sandpapered until what’s left is who we truly are.
I wish I’d known sooner that success isn’t defined by who goes the longest without vacation.
I always try to practice what I preach. I meditate for fifteen minutes every day and do yoga several times a week.
You need to be able to nurture yourself in order to be a good mother, good at your job, good at servicing your community. I really believe women can do it all, but they can’t do it all at the expense of their health, their sleep, and their sense of well-being.
You can’t manage creativity. You need to manage for creativity. You need to create the space for it to emerge.
Basically, success the way we’ve defined it is no longer sustainable. It’s no longer sustainable for human beings or for societies.