He who divides and shares is left with the best share. Mexican proverb.
What is time if we don’t share it?
What is passion if we don’t share it?
What is experience if we don’t share it?
What is knowledge if we don’t share it?
What is love if we don’t share it?
What, indeed?
Hmmm… something to think about in our increasingly fractious, selfish, what’s in it for me world.
Patience is a virtue and I’m learning patience. Elon Musk.
Are you stressed out, doing what everybody else is doing, trying to compete in an already over-crowded market-place? Unhappy with the slow pace of your success?
Maybe it’s time to rethink your plans.
Our society is going through a period of change unlike anything we have experienced since the dawn of the industrial age. Whole industries have been up-ended. Globalization and technology have changed how we do practically everything.
To grow your enterprise or advance your career in today’s hard scrabble environment, you’ve got to tell your own story, work smarter and work hard. And have patience.
These days it seems there is an app for everything. With a click you’ll be there. Right? Wrong.
There is no app for overnight success. Overnight successes are rare. Think 1 in 10,000. The road to any worthwhile venture is long.
There are few Mozarts. Most of us have to resort to old-fashioned, old-school patience.
It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave behind us in the past those moments in life that are over. Paulo Coelho.
One of hardest things to do is to change.
To those who are afraid of change, it is threatening because they think things might get worse. To those who hold out hope, it is encouraging because things might get better. To those more confident, change is inspiring because they know it can it open the doors on to new opportunities.
To change is to let go of old ideas that are no longer current, outdated methodologies and the old stories we have been told by parents, friends, work associates and society at large. As comfortable and familiar as they are, they are other people’s stories, based on their views and experiences. Not yours. They have to go if you are serious about changing.
As challenging as it is, if you are caught up in the weeds, unable to find the answers you are seeking, know that you can’t move on until you let go of the familiar.
As soon as you do, ideas will begin to flow again.
The key to growth lies in your willingness to change.
Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better. Martin Luther King Jr.
If you are kind, some people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, some people may cheat you. Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight. Build anyway.
It doesn’t matter what others may think or if anyone else cares.
What matters is that you care and know that it does make a difference.
There are three constants in life; change, choice and principles. Steven Covey.
It’s all about the attitude you have right now. And it’s a continuing choice.
The goal is not to let the temporary pain or rejection cause you to stop flowing. Keep going.
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