Once we commit ourselves to run, we often forget to check where we’re going. To me, checking weekly helps a lot. And what helps even more is creating time to check, since I know that I often forget to check. Checking is more important than running. Note to self: stop …
It’s easy to quit, and the decision is fairly easy as well. It’s hard not to give up, also the decision is quite hard. Today as well as yesterday I have heard two stories describing a situation where people didn’t do something they wanted to do in the (far) future. …
It’s worth mentioning that we humans try to live intentional lives, while the majority of our life is decided by coincidence. If we accept the coincidental nature of the universe, it would reduce tremendous amounts of speed we think we want. If we live purposeful lives, what we do is …
Says I see you, I know what you’re going through, I support you, it’s okay and it’s going to be fine all at the same time. Relating to other people’s journey with compassion is one of the best tools we have to take people on our shoulders and lift them …
We so often tell ourselves that it’s the conditions that matter. Whether that video is in 4K or the length of our video is right. Or that hair we check in the mirror. That frame that takes ages to get insta-perfect. Things that matter never need picture perfect. They need …
Sometimes it’s the actual progress. That medal. Sometimes it’s the process of making progress, regardless of what was actually done. And sometimes it’s being together, having the same dream and working towards that. Whatever it is. Winning is something to live for.
Be there where you are. Go there where you dream about. Not the other way around.
In Asian martial arts it’s good practice to use other people’s offensive energy to first go with the move and then use that move and energy to attack your opponent. There’s a life lesson somewhere in there.
Some days you didn’t notice anything special. Those days, at least choose to be present and notice you noticed nothing. Reflection is a valuable thing, even if it seems there’s nothing there.
In conversations I’m often looking for parterns lately. Pulling the stuff out of the conversation, hanging it on the peg of a specific topic. When you look for domains, concepts and patterns in the bigger picture, it’s so much easier to overcome bumps in the road and make progress on …