What do you want?” is too imprecise to produce a meaningful and actionable answer.
With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence?
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – ALBERT EINSTEIN.
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple – many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
The worst that could happen wasn’t crashing and burning, it was accepting terminal boredom as a tolerable status quo.
Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Before spending time on a stress-inducing question or problem, consider this: If you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
Getting fired, despite sometimes coming as a surprise and leaving you scrambling to recover, is often a godsend. Most people aren’t lucky enough to get fired and die a slow spiritual death over 30-40 years of tolerating the mediocre.
If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. – VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective – doing less – is the path of the productive.
As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for advice.
1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.
Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.
It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. – NIELS BOHR, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner.
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.