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I’ve learned that when work is tuned to what we’re passionate about, it ceases to be work.
Abundance: Whether it’s financial or health, love, and life experiences, you start to see abundance emerging in all areas of your life. Flow and Ease: Life flows almost as if it’s blessed by luck and synchronicity. It almost feels as if you are held by a benevolent Universe.
Bend Reality: What you want comes to you with ease; you feel as if you are supported by the Universe.
The Soul’s Experience on Earth Is Not Meant for Hard Work and Toil. It’s Meant for Freedom, Ease, and Expansion.
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret in this for anyone who can grasp it.
If I am a soul choosing a human experience, why am I here?
“Given my values, given what fulfills me and how I want to grow, what can I uniquely offer the world?”
In most cases anyone can imitate your business. But nobody can imitate your business if it’s built based on YOUR STORY. When your values infuse your business, you’ve given a special life to your creation.
Little ideas that tickled, and nagged, and refused to go away should never be ignored, for in them lie the seeds of destiny.
You don’t need to know how to achieve an outcome. Forget knowing HOW. All you need to know is your WHY and WHAT for doing it. Then, you share this with passion. The people you need will come to you. And they will bring the answers you need. And usually much faster than you expect.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Bucky Fuller
Positive optimism is not the rejection of sadness, but the thought, even during sadness, that the future will be okay.
Do I trust this person? Do I respect this person? These are the initial building blocks of all relationships. If a person answers “yes” to both questions on the first encounter, this could be the start of a budding friendship. Adversely, in any relationship that doesn’t work, one or both of these two elements is missing. A hint to anyone who has a personal or business relationship that feels hostile: Restore these two elements.
In teams it takes effort to have people feel okay being themselves. But once again, anyone can create structures for this. First, trash the grand myth about work, which is that personal life needs to be separate. When people feel safe with their teammates, it’s true magic.
Tell yourself I love you. It sounds ridiculous. But if you do this daily you’ll experience a major difference. You should never miss a chance to tell the people you care about how much you love them, and the number one person you should care about if you want to be unfuckwithable is you. Stand in front of the mirror every morning, while you’re brushing your teeth or combing your hair or whatever and tell yourself, “I love you.” It will feel silly at first. Keep doing it until it stops feeling that way.
Good morning. I love you
Practice self-gratitude. Every morning when you wake up, give thanks for all of the good things in your life and start the list with you. Thank yourself for the hard work you do, the passion you pour into your projects, the love and patience you show toward your family. Begin to appreciate the best parts of your personality, because what you focus on grows. And people who are unfuckwithable are always growing the best parts of themselves.
“We had people do this at Facebook and at Nationwide Insurance in the U.S. Every morning when they got to work, the very first task they had to complete for twenty-one days in a row was to write a single two-minute email praising or thanking one person that they know,” Achor explained. “The email could be as simple as ‘Thank you for helping me with my work yesterday’ or something more meaningful like ‘You’re the reason each day. You are my best friend here’ or ‘Thank you so much for covering for me when I had so much work going on yesterday.’
The most important thing that our business schools need to teach us is that your work is not about your work. Rather, your work is nothing more than the ultimate vehicle for your personal growth. If your business fails, it doesn’t matter. The question is, how did you GROW? If your business becomes a billion dollars, it doesn’t matter. The question is, how did you GROW?
My job is a vehicle for growth and self-actualization. Right here, right now.
Real success is actually much simpler than most of us have been led to believe. There is nothing you have to get to or be in order to have finally made it. The secret formula is this: Growth = Success
Bottom line here is: Growth is a goal in itself. When you understand how you want to grow, you can take responsibility and be the driver of your own growth. You can turn every work opportunity into an experience for becoming a better version of you.
Your Work Is Not About Your Work. Rather Your Work Is the Greatest Vehicle for Your Personal Growth
Leadership is recognizing that we are all ONE. That every person you lead is as brilliant as you, as talented as you, and has the same capacity for growth and accomplishment. They simply need to be reminded of this fact.
Grow so fast that your friends who haven’t seen you in a month have to get to know you all over again.
It’s all about finding and hiring people smarter than you, getting them to join your business and giving them good work, then getting out of the way and trusting them. You have to get out of the way so you can focus on the bigger vision. But there was one last piece of advice he gave me that night: That’s important, but here is the main thing: You must make them see their work as a mission.
Richard Branson
a certain point during a Q&A session, a woman in her forties stood up. She said: “Neale, I wake up every day feeling stress and anxiety and depression. What do you recommend I do?” Neale smiled, caught her gaze, and said: Remember this when you wake up every day: Your life is not about you. Rather, it’s about the lives of every single person you touch.
once heard Peter Diamandis say: “The average person with a smartphone today has access to more information about the world than the President of the United States did in 1994.”
You don’t have to save the world. Just don’t mess it up for the next generation.
When you do something audacious, it becomes easier. Because you get the best people to join you. The problem you’re solving is worth solving! You have the magnets. And you get the money. Because then investors call. And then you tell them, you don’t need their money. Now like a bull they charge! So, sell the benefit to humanity. Cult leaders say loyalty lies with me, But entrepreneurs say loyalty lies with the cause.
Naiven
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Bruce Lee
Jeff Bezos once wrote a blog post titled “The Smart People Change Their Minds.” He wrote: “The people who are right a lot more often change their minds.” Bezos went on to say he doesn’t think consistency of thought is a particularly positive trait: “It’s better, even healthier in fact, to have an idea that contradicts one you had before. The smart people constantly revise their understandings of a matter. They reconsider problems they thought they had solved. They are open to new points of view, new information, and challenges to their own ways of thinking.”
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. —George Bernard Shaw
