Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tzu Enthusiasm for a project is always exhilarating. That initial wave of motivation is stimulating, like a big bang when creative forces are unleashed. But once the “I’m going to conquer the world” feeling fades, our energy may wane. Before we know it, the drive to continue fizzles. This is when discipline becomes more potent than the first surge of…
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But the truth is, 38 percent of your charisma comes from the way you talk. The more appealing your voice is to people, the more trust they`ll put in you, but the opposite is also true. Stuttering, talking too fast, not breathing properly, can ruin your charisma and make people unable to enjoy your company. ~ Julian Reisinger We talk about charisma as if it were a personality trait, something you…
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Not everything that is faced can be changed But nothing can change that is not faced. ~James Baldwin There is a particular heaviness that settles in the body when we avoid something we know we need to face. It may not be noticeable at first: a tightness in our breath, a small hesitation, a thought that we keep pushing to the side. But this energy of avoidance accumulates. It slowly…
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Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance. ~Epicurus Abundance doesn’t arrive with arms full. It arrives with open hands. Most of us spend years gathering titles, relationships, identities, and expectations, believing that more will make us whole. Yet the universe has its own mathematics. Sometimes the greatest expansion begins with subtraction. There comes a moment in everyone’s lives when something you’ve been holding on to no…
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But the Hebrew word, the word timshel—‘Thou mayest’— that gives a choice. It might be the most important word in the world. That says the way is open. That throws it right back on a man. For if ‘Thou mayest’—it is also true that ‘Thou mayest not.” ~John Steinbeck We often hear that doing the same thing over and over while hoping for a different outcome is insanity. But…
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Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer ~Dan Brown Obstacles have a way of arriving uninvited, often when we least expect them. They disrupt our rhythm, and sometimes ask more of us than we think we can give. Rarely do they feel like gifts in the moment, yet if we pause long enough to look beneath the inconvenience, frustration, or fear, something else begins to reveal itself.…
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Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again. ~ Nelson Mandela When life seems reasonable, few of us feel compelled to look deeper. We ride the high of ease, coasting on the feel-good sensations and life’s great moments. Then, when those moments fade, we are left with what has been there all along, without the feel-good chemicals…
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You have to push hard, do hard things. But you also have to be able to say, ‘OK, today’s not the day.’ ~Alex Lowe There is a quiet truth we often ignore: if the process empties us, the outcome won’t save us. Who likes running when it’s raining to get in the miles, especially after a long day at work? Who likes waiting until the heat of the day…
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You’ve got to go slow to go fast. ~Tom Dorrance We live in a world obsessed with speed, yet the things that shape us, the things that last, cannot be rushed. Life continues to remind me that slowness is not a flaw in the process; it is the process. I’ve been told I ride my horses too fast, implying that it is wrong. I can ride fast; however, do I ride…
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