Bunny

“Ambition itself is not a character flaw—it can guide and propel us. But when we use it to fill our internal sense of emptiness, we run in circles. Instead of asking what ambition, what goal, what achievement will make us special—and make us feel whole—we can keep jostling with the incomplete parts of ourselves. We can stop worrying about how the rest of our lives will turn out and simply get through the smaller challenges we will encounter today. We live in this day, after all, not in the one we’re waiting for.”
― Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

“Sometimes what can look like a block is just a work process. Things are always on the way to us, even if they haven’t yet arrived. We can be patient with the time this expedition can take, knowing we will be better placed to receive them when we are more prepared.”
― Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

“Throughout our days, we might tell ourselves that life will be better when we get that promotion, leave our job, lose weight, finish this project, win that award—when we finally arrive. But the truth is that we never arrive. Not when we get that job, complete that project, find a partner, move into that house, make more money. Because even when we do achieve such things, we are always looking to the next thing, or lamenting the inevitable plateau of a specific ambition.”
― Madeleine Dore, I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

“you are doing a job that you love doing, you will excel, and if you excel, the money, the opportunity, and the power will follow.”
― Carla A. Harris, Expect to Win: 10 Proven Strategies for Thriving in the Workplace