Pete Hinzy
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Pete Hinzy
Work out early in the morning. You will have accomplished something right from the start and know that you are moving in the right direction. Waiting till the end of the day you will often be too tired, mentally and physically and there are too many alternatives.
Harsh feedback hurts less than harsh outcomes
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.” - Marcus Aurelius
Effective leaders ask questions rather than providing answers. The questions are key. Great leaders don’t tell people, they don’t direct people, and they don’t order people around. They facilitate great thinking through self-reflection. We talked about one ego-bypass question in an earlier chapter: “What would ‘great’ look like?” Here are a few
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When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the
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An ancient Greek saying holds that we are tormented not by things themselves but by the opinions that we have of them.
Ward Farnsworth • The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User's Manual
Make your bed first thing in the morning. If you share a bed with a partner, make up your side. By doing this you will have already accomplished something, no matter how small, and started the day by moving forward. Some side benefits are you don’t come back to a messy bed later and you are not pushing the responsibility onto your partner.
“Caretake this moment. Immerse yourself in its particulars. Respond to this person, this challenge, this deed. Quit the evasions. Stop giving yourself needless trouble. It is time to really live; to fully inhabit the situation you happen to be in now. You are not some disinterested bystander. Participate. Exert yourself.” -Epictetus
The first principle of practical Stoicism is this: we don’t react to events; we react to our judgments about them, and the judgments are up to us.