Tag: passion

Moments

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An exercise to realize how many “moments” you have:

 

Try the “100 blocks a day method>:

Perspective is a powerful tool when you talk about scheduling your time.

According to the writers at Wait But Why, if you sleep 8 hours a night, that leaves you with about 1,000 waking minutes a day to schedule. Or, about 100 10-minute blocks.

Lay those blocks out on a grid and ask yourself, how many are:

Put toward making your future better, and how many of them are just there to be enjoyed?

Spent with other people, and how many are for time by yourself?

Used to create something, and how many are used to consume something?

This isn’t necessarily a practice any (sane) person would go through on a daily basis, but the idea behind it is sound. Know you have a finite amount of time each day and see how many blocks you have.

 

Thank you Jessica K for the inspiration this morning!

“Simple Pleasures”

I put a couple things together this morning to prove a point… First up from Psychology Today some research showing the importance of noticing “simple pleasures:”

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Combine that with this info from Forbes discussing the vast improbability of us even existing:

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When we combine the two, we realize how un-fathomable it is to even be in the right place at the right time to notice a “simple” pleasure. What are the odds that you are in your car at the very moment the sun peeks up over the horizon to show it’s beauty? What are the odds that you notice the flight of the hummingbird whizzing by in the afternoon? Life’s simple pleasures are anything but simple. Take time to appreciate all the amazing aspects of life, because when you think about it, even being alive is awe-inspiring :)!

Excellence

Jessica brought these two this morning at our morning meeting. They were excellent 🙂

“If I am going to do something different and if I want to meet someone’s needs, I really need to go the distance.”-Hilary Swank

“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”-Charles R Swindell

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Peaceful You

“For over a decade our slogan has been ‘A peaceful world begins with a peaceful you.’ And although peaceful individuals are a foundation of a peaceful world, when it comes to initiating real change in a profound way, we need people who are not just peaceful, but also powerful. Individuals who have aligned their hearts with their ambitions. Individuals who are dreaming and doing. Individuals like you. Thank you for making the world more awesome.”-Briana & Peter.

 

http://thewelllifebook.com/authors/

Notes from The Universe

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“Go for it, Joel (switch for your name here :), not once, but again and again and again. Whatever it takes. Because in the end, with arms held high in the winners circle, beaming with joy, as light as a feather, crying your eyes out, you’ll see how fantastically disproportionate the rewards are for the effort expended, the risks taken, and the price paid – no matter how many false starts you endured. And you’ll be astounded by how quickly you made it, even though, when the going got tough, and your spirits ebbed, you thought you’d never, ever, ever “see the day.”

Tallyho,

The Universe