Minny
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Minny
Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine...Fill your website with your work with your ideas and the stuff you care about. Don't let it fall into neglect. Think about it in the long term. Stick with it, maintain it, and let it change you over time.
Life is a creative adventure that invites us to become comfortable with discomfort, a journey where we continually experiment, make mistakes, learn, and grow.
When you’re genuinely curious about the world, when you let that curiosity guide your reading, your thinking, and your creating, you become a magnet for ideas, conversations, and opportunities. When you’re interested, you’re never boring. And when you’re interesting, the world can’t help but pay attention.
Zoe Scaman • Forty Years, Forty Lessons
Life has an unerring way of balancing good and bad, rather like math. For every positive, there’s a negative; for every gain, a loss; for every plus, a minus.
Dianne Freeman • A Fiancée's Guide to First Wives and Murder (A Countess of Harleigh Mystery Book 4)
Wouldn't it be nice to live a life driven by curiosity, not by money, not by social status, not by somebody else's expectations?
What if I just follow what I'm curious about, what I'm interested in, what makes my heart pound, and embrace that particular thing for a while? Let myself learn, fail, grow, and have fun with it.
If it takes around seven
... See moreBeware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize.
William Zinsser • On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction
Curiosity should be a verb, not a noun. Curiosity is connected to doing, to solving, experimenting, trying, failing, and then accomplishing. “How does this work?” “What do I do?” “What happens next?” “What do I do to make this turn out the way I want—or the way you want?” “How do I get from here to there?” “What can I do to help you (or myself)?”
... See moreDavid Falkner • Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner
Time is the best editor.
If you have it, time is the easiest trick for self-editing. Simply put your work away long enough so when you come back to it you can see it with fresh eyes.
I am tired of seeing speed as a selling point.
I’ve wanted to talk about this for a long time.
I think one of the main reasons many of us feel anxious is because we have more productivity tools than ever, but these tools rarely match how we naturally want to... See more
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