Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)

by Anthony Raymond

Some situations cannot be improved upon. Some relationships cannot be salvaged. Instead, the correct course of action may be to let sleeping dogs lie. Acceptance is often the only gift we can give those who are estranged. Forgiveness may be all we can provide for those who have wronged us—even if they don’t deserve it. This offering need not be wholly altruistic; its utility may be twofold. As Johnathan Lockwood Huie wrote: Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.