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“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”
―“We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put in at work, instead of the quality of time we put in.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“My mother was a continual source of wisdom and great advice...she taught me that there is always a way around a problem-you've just got to find it. Keep trying doors; one will eventually open. She also taught me to accept failure as part and parcel of life. It's not the opposite of success; it's an integral part of success.
I talk a lot about learning to become fearless in your approach to life. But fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's all about getting up one more time than you fall down.”
―“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling, “This is important! And this is important! And this is important! You need to worry about this! And this! And this!” And each day, it’s up to you to yank your hand back, put it on your heart and say, “No. This is what’s important.” —IAIN THOMAS”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“If you take care of your mind, you take care of the world.’ ”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“It is very telling what we don’t hear in eulogies. We almost never hear things like: “The crowning achievement of his life was when he made senior vice president.” Or: “He increased market share for his company multiple times during his tenure.” Or: “She never stopped working. She ate lunch at her desk. Every day.” Or: “He never made it to his kid’s Little League games because he always had to go over those figures one more time.” Or: “While she didn’t have any real friends, she had six hundred Facebook friends, and she dealt with every email in her in-box every night.” Or: “His PowerPoint slides were always meticulously prepared.” Our eulogies are always about the other stuff: what we gave, how we connected, how much we meant to our family and friends, small kindnesses, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Have you notices that when we die, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success?”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“And whenever I’d complain or was upset about something in my own life, my mother had the same advice: “Darling, just change the channel. You are in control of the clicker. Don’t replay the bad, scary movie.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“It’s not ‘What do I want to do?’, it’s ‘What kind of life do I want to have?’ ”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Treat people like family, and they will be loyal and give their all.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“We may not be able to witness our own eulogy, but we’re actually writing it all the time, every day.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Today we often use deadlines—real and imaginary—to imprison ourselves.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D’SOUZA”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“The people we invite on the train are those with whom we are prepared to be vulnerable and real, with whom there is no room for masks and games. They strengthen us when we falter and remind us of the journey’s purpose when we become distracted by the scenery. And we do the same for them. Never let life’s lagos—flatterers, dissemblers—onto your train. We always get warnings from our heart and our intuition when they appear, but we are often too busy to notice. When you realize they’ve made it on board, make sure you usher them off the train; and as soon as you can, forgive them and forget them. There is nothing more draining than holding grudges.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“If you look at the best research on parenting, it comes down to one thing and one thing only. Not what you teach your children or how much time you spend with them, or if you read to them or not. What it comes down to is who you are, because we teach who we are. You read, your child will read. You watch too much TV, your child will. You do service in the world, your child will do service in the world. So the best way to get past all the worries is to be the best you that you can be. And forgive yourself when you are not. And not to hold unrealistic expectations of your children when you are in no way showing them the behavior you demand from them. Be an example to yourself that your child can be proud of.”
― On Becoming Fearless“Ten thousand flowers in spring, the moon in autumn, a cool breeze in summer, snow in winter. If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life. —WU MEN”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. —PAULO COELHO”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say “so what.” That’s one of my favorite things to say. —ANDY WARHOL”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. —WILLIAM JAMES”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Whenever we look around the world, we see smart leaders – in politics, in business, in media – making terrible decisions. What they're lacking is not IQ, but wisdom. Which is no surprise; it has never been harder to tap into our inner wisdom, because in order to do so, we have to disconnect from all our omnipresent devices – our gadgets, our screens, our social media – and reconnect with ourselves.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Imagine how our culture, how our lives, will change when we begin valuing go-givers as much as we value go-getters.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder“An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.94 “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil—he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.” He continued, “The other is good—he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you—and inside every other person, too.” The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?” The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.” –CHEROKEE LEGEND”
― Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life“Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?”
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Wednesday, March 08, 2023
These two threads that run through our life—one pulling us into the world to achieve and make things happen, the other pulling us back from the world to nourish and replenish ourselves—can seem at odds, but in fact they reinforce each other. Arianna Huffington, The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time
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