Value-Truth
The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.
Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.
Self-pity feels safer tha... See more
Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.
Self-pity feels safer tha... See more
Brain Food: The Hardest Truth
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
- Victor Hugo
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
- Romans 12:2
- George Bernard Shaw
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
- Victor Hugo
“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
- Romans 12:2
Emily Holdman • Deep Roots, Hard Looks, and Change — Permanent Equity: Investing in Companies that Care What Happens Next
Deadlines, loud requests and last-minute interventions are crude forcing functions. They’re inefficient and common.
It’s far more effective to organize for important instead.
We thrive when we do things when we have the most leverage, not when everyone else does. Waiting for trouble means that you’re going to spend your days dealing with trouble.
It’s far more effective to organize for important instead.
We thrive when we do things when we have the most leverage, not when everyone else does. Waiting for trouble means that you’re going to spend your days dealing with trouble.
Organizing for urgent
An argument, though, is an exchange of ideas that ought to surface insight and lead to a conclusion.
How to win an argument with a toddler
It’s really just you against the mirror. You vs you. No one else can win at a game of one. I know it’s hard not to get distracted, race horses wear blinders for a reason. Your lane you’re game. LFG.
From Codie Sanchez via LinkedIn
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be love... See more
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be consoled as to console;
To be understood as to understand;
To be love... See more
Litany of Humility
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the d... See more
O Jesus! meek and humble of heart, Hear me.
From the desire of being esteemed,
Deliver me, Jesus.
From the desire of being loved...
From the desire of being extolled ...
From the desire of being honored ...
From the desire of being praised ...
From the desire of being preferred to others...
From the desire of being consulted ...
From the d... See more
Litany of Humility - Ascension
Truth trumps narrative. You can temporarily rally people around what sounds good, but reality eventually imposes its verdict.
But the resurrection wasn’t just for the “respectable.” It was for criminals, too. It was for the condemned.
On the cross, Jesus was considered a criminal by the state and the religious authorities.
The first person Jesus promised paradise to was a man dying on a cross beside him—labeled a criminal by the state.
The resurrection doesn’t ignore injusti... See more
On the cross, Jesus was considered a criminal by the state and the religious authorities.
The first person Jesus promised paradise to was a man dying on a cross beside him—labeled a criminal by the state.
The resurrection doesn’t ignore injusti... See more