Value-Courage
Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings.
The child does what feels right, the adult does what is right.
The child does what feels right, the adult does what is right.
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About praying the Psalms, Kathleen Norris notices how they “defeat our tendency to try to be holy without being human first.”
What truly separates people isn’t some magical talent, but an almost irrational commitment to pushing through pain that would break most people.
That hotel wasn’t inevitable. No success is. Paying the price doesn’t guarantee success. Determination is necessary but not sufficient. You can sacrifice everything and still fail. The world is littered wit... See more
That hotel wasn’t inevitable. No success is. Paying the price doesn’t guarantee success. Determination is necessary but not sufficient. You can sacrifice everything and still fail. The world is littered wit... See more
Mary Kate Teske on bravery:
“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”
“No one ever tells you that bravery feels like fear.”
the best preservative to keep the mind in health, is the faithful admonition of a friend. The calling of a man’s self to a strict account is a medicine sometimes too piercing and corrosive; reading good books of morality is a little flat and dead; observing our faults in others is sometimes improper for our case; but the best receipt (best, I say, ... See more
Relational Integrity: The practice of honoring a positive relationship while confronting hard truths. You hold both your care for the person and your responsibility to hold them accountable for their performance.
Relational Integrity doesn’t mean sugarcoating or avoiding decisions. It means being honest: using the strength of the relationship as a f... See more
Relational Integrity doesn’t mean sugarcoating or avoiding decisions. It means being honest: using the strength of the relationship as a f... See more
It is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.
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Breakup Dissonance: The internal conflict that arises when a leader's positive personal feelings toward a team member clash with evident professional underperformance. Most often, the leader will unconsciously devalue the relationship to justify the difficult decision to part ways.
Great work requires being stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods. The best people I know stick relentlessly to what they want to achieve, but quickly adapt how they'll achieve it when they see a better way. Most people do the opposite - they cling to their methods even when better options appear.
Elite rowers understand this balan... See more
Elite rowers understand this balan... See more