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- #23 Generosity as a practice
I've learned accidentally that generosity is extremely uncomfortable but can be learned. Giving to charities is not practicing generosity, it just fits into the norms of society. Gifts are uncomfortable because they create bonds. Give before it feels like you are ready. Giving can open you up to more possibilityfrom Tweet by Paul Millerd
You don't need more intensity, you need more consistency. Intensity impresses; consistency transforms.
Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.
-Jack Kornfeld
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden.- There are different types of hard work:
1. Outthinking (a better strategy, a shortcut)
2. Pure Effort (working longer, intensity)
3. Opportunistic (positioning yourself to take advantage of change)
4. Consistency (doing average things for longer)from Tweet by Zoe Scaman
Ask yourself, would you recommend yourself as a ? Would you recommend yourself as a CEO, employee, husband, friend, or whatever? And if the answer is no, then ask yourself, why not?
from Living with the Monks: What Turning Off My Phone Taught Me about Happiness, Gratitude, and Focus by Jesse Itzler
- ‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen. Not a day goes by when this phrase by Denmark’s foremost writer doesn’t feel true to me. I’ve had it hung on my wall for over a decade.
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- A number of observational studies have indicated that volunteering is associated with improvements in various aspects of well-being. In some sense, volunteering and regularly participating in various volunteering activities and organizations is a commitment to repeated acts of kindness, generally directed to an important goal of improving the life ... See more
from How to Flourish: Practical Activities Supported by Scientific Research by Harvard University
That ’s what Merry Fucking Christmas is all about. It has nothing to do with the holiday. It’s about the surprise “gifts” life has wrapped up, just waiting for you to stumble into.
from Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins