Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’sthinking. Steve Jobs.
Life is short. As soon as you can, find yourself and you’ll find your purpose – living and loving each and every day.
3 QUESTIONS: Are you questioning your current life situation, wondering if you have it all right? Are you searching for the right way to be the best version of yourself you can be?
Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategicexploring and refresh your spirit to help you get going again?
Maximize your unique strengths, start with what you have and do the work. Drew Simmie.
Perhaps you are familiar with it…the story about a farmer in Africa who had heard tales about many who made their fortunes by prospecting for diamonds in far off lands. Rumours abounded about the number of people staggering under the weight of the bags.
So the farmer, tired of tilling his sandy, stone strewn land for so many years, dissatisfied with the meagre results, decided one day to join them.
He sold off his unproductive farm and set out prospecting, seeking his fortune.
Meanwhile, the man who had bought his farm, as he walked his property one day, tripped over a small piece of rock. He didn’t know what it was but it looked interesting so he took it home and put it up on his fireplace mantel. A curiosity piece, he thought to himself.
Some months later, a friend of his came to visit. He spied the rock on the mantel.
“Do you know what this is,” he asked?
“No, I don’t,” replied the farmer. “I just saw it lying on the ground and liked it so I brought it home and put it up on the mantel.”
“Well,” responded his guest, with a smile, “It’s not just a little piece of rock. It’s a diamond, in the rough.”
The idea of this story, of course, is that many of us, dissatisfied with our work, especially in our over-worked, hyper-connected world, occasionally can find ourselves in the middle of our own field of diamonds, frustrated with our performance, vainly eyeing what we think must be better ideas, searching ever farther afield for greater opportunities.
If only we would pause for awhile to explore who we are, what we’re doing and, more importantly why.
If we did, armed with patience, humility and courage, we would find, more often than not, that the riches we were seeking were right under our feet.
3 QUESTIONS: Are you questioning your current life situation, wondering if you have it all right? Are you searching for the right way to be the best version of yourself you can be?
Need encouragement and someone with whom you could do some strategicexploring and refresh your spirit to help you get going again?
A year ago I posted this blog when I came across something called The Rotary 4 Way Test – a personal and business ethical guideline penned some 60 years ago by Herbert Taylor, a member of Rotary International in Chicago:
Is it the truth?
Is it fair to all concerned?
Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Doing the right things rather than doing things right takes courage. It certainly isn’t always easy and often comes with a cost, but that doesn’t mean we should turn a blind eye.
A MOMENT OF REFLECTION: Have you recently found yourself wondering if, perhaps, there is more you could be doing? Something more fulfilling and engaging? Or closer to the point, as you move on to what’s new and exciting, something that more reflects who YOU have grown into over the years? Ask your way to success.
Obstacles are things that a person sees when he takes his eyes off the goal. Mahatma Gandhi.
In today’s challenging era, it seems to me that as we face up to what is going to be a different world we have two choices: We can avert our eyes and longingly look back to what was and is no more, or we can excitedly scan the horizon for what’s new and exciting.
Staying in between is not an option.
To those with the courage and the vision to look for the right path forward, the choice is to be light of foot.
In the words of Priyamvada Natarajan,” being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attitude that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen.”
3 QUESTIONS: Are you questioning your current life situation, wondering if you have it all right? Are you searching for the right path forward and a way to be the best version of yourself you can be?
Need someone with whom you could do some positive, strategic thinking and refresh your spirit to help get to your next objective?
