3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“Buying your kids the best will never replace giving your kids your best.”
II.
“The best way to change the world is in concentric circles: start with yourself and work your way out from there.”
III.
“Be excited for people when they succeed.
When a friend or family member reaches an important milestone like getting a promotion or making their first sale or scoring acceptance into their desired program, celebrate it. Buy them a drink. Send them a card. Tell them you’re proud to know them.
Being thrilled on someone’s behalf is a lovely way to be. Winning is better when shared.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
Author H. Jackson Brown Jr. offers some life advice:
“Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.”
Source: Life’s Little Instruction Book
II.
An email from Steve Jobs, sent to himself, remarking on how much we all need each other:
“I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds.
I do not make any of my own clothing.
I speak a language I did not invent or refine.
I did not discover the mathematics I use.
I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not enforce or adjudicate.
I am moved by music I did not create myself.
When I needed medical attention, I was helpless to help myself survive.
I did not invent the transistor, the microprocessor, object oriented programming, or most of the technology I work with.
I love and admire my species, living and dead, and am totally dependent on them for my life and well being.”
Source: Email sent on September 2, 2010. Featured in Make Something Wonderful
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
If I do nothing, what will happen? If I act right now, what will happen?
Sometimes you need to let go. Sometimes you need to get going.
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits and keynote speaker
