purpose
If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.
-Joseph Campbell
Approach the chaos of change with the clarity of purpose. Don’t let the machines take your job; put them to work for you.
You only live once, and you get to live in the most magical time.
You only live once, and you get to live in the most magical time.
via Packy McCormick
In the short term a 1-of-1 purpose will almost always fail. Every day is yet another moment that people didn’t follow your vision and the world failed to transform according to your ideas. The failures are literally limitless.
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of struggling in the darkness can produce... See more
With a longer view, however, this process looks different. Eighty straight days of struggling in the darkness can produce... See more
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
"One doesn't expect to get from life what one has already learned it cannot give, rather, one begins to see that life is a kind of sowing time... and the harvest is not yet here. He was just a humble preacher's son. And yes, he had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty. Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration.... See more
"Ideas start out small, weak, and fragile. In order to grow, ideas need financial capital. But they also need emotional capital - good energy, positivity, and resilience. The best way to control your emotional capital is to fine tune your internal monologue and replace your hunger for approval with a desire to grow."
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Are you creating to build what looks like success to others or are you creating to build value?