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“The only competition we’re in is with ourselves. I’m not trying to compete. I’m just trying to complete my own race”

Takeaways
“As long as you were moving forward, you’re doing the right thing.” Pg 101

Our life span, as long as it is right now, is still a blip. We have a short time to make an impact, to suck the marrow out of every day in a way that causes us to be nourished and grow so that we can pour out to others. Have fun, and share your gifts. You need to live with fun, and the world wants to live with your joy.

To grow into the people we’re meant to be, we have to put ourselves in the right situation, meet the right people, be in the right places, take risks, and take action at the right time without forcing it. We have to trust that good stuff will come when we put our own good stuff out there.

To grow into the people we’re meant to be, we have to put ourselves in the right situation, meet the right people, be in the right places, take risks, and take action at the right time without forcing it. We have to trust that good stuff will come when we put our own good stuff out there.

Faith is not hoping that something will happen. It’s a true, deep sense that something will happen, even if you can’t explain it.

When we try to do everything ourselves, two things can happen: we eventually burn out, or we just don’t do the job well. We do much better when we bring people with similar goals but different gifts, talents, and abilities to the table.

3SW:
Some Will, Some Won’t, So What? The more people you talk to, the greater the chances that you will create a fun new opportunity, because you never know what will stick, either for the person you meet or for yourself. One result of that networking is a rediscovery of yourself.

delivering criticism like a sandwich. You always start with the bread of encouragement, add the meat of criticism, then wrap it up with another slice of encouragement so that people don’t feel as if you’re just beating up on them. Not everyone can do that, which is why only a small group of people ever know what I’m working on. The rest won’t know until the launch.

There’s a big difference between responding and reacting. Reacting is emotional and responding is thoughtful. But as Henry Cloud and John Townsend understood, the result of not acting is even harder.

Everything and everyone is either life- giving or life- taking. They either add to the experience of our lives or they drain us

We have hopes and dreams and our own built- in expectations of what we think is going to take place, but things rarely turn out the way we imagine them. Life has a way of throwing us all kinds of curveballs.The challenge isn’t to avoid them. It’s to be joyful as they come toward us, to remain grounded in our behavior and actions when our emotions are screaming everything to the contrary.

Until someone tells us to choose a profession, we have a tendency to gravitate toward that which interests us the most— and what interests us the most is what will give us the most fun. It’s how we live our lives in a way that is authentic and true to who we are and want to be. To find those interests we have to experiment. Trying new things is a key to discovery, a way to learn more about ourselves and about others.

We all like to think of ourselves as superheroes. We like to believe that we can do everything: be the chief cook, the waiter, and the bottle washer. But while a chef can wash bottles, it’s not the best use of his or her time. We’re not meant to do everything. We’re made to supplement and complement each other’s gifts.

Nearly everything in life falls on one of two sides of a spectrum. Something is either life giving or it is life taking. It either feeds your soul or it sucks from your soul. You can feel that sucking happen. It’s as though your energy and life force are being depleted at a rapidly accelerating pace you have to ask whether you are the right person for the task. You have to ask yourself why you chose to do it.

Knowing that change is inevitable enables us to express gratitude for what we have right now. And we all have things for which we should feel grateful.
If we come from a place of gratitude, we have joy. We don’t feel that something needs to happen in order to feel this is our day. We can live in a permanent state of I’m good. We don’t need something else to be happy but can rest in a place of contentment where we are

I’ve learned to trust the process. There’s a saying that man plans and God laughs. But it’s not just our plans that he laughs at. It’s also our assumptions.
Life unfolds in ways that we just don’t expect. The only thing that we can expect is the unexpected. We have to go with the flow and be open to those opportunities as life is happening around us. That attitude demands patience

I’ve learned to trust the process. There’s a saying that man plans and God laughs. But it’s not just our plans that he laughs at. It’s also our assumptions.
Life unfolds in ways that we just don’t expect. The only thing that we can expect is the unexpected. We have to go with the flow and be open to those opportunities as life is happening around us. That attitude demands patience

When we recognize that so much is out of our hands, then taking risks is a safer play because it gives us many more options. We get to see our lives not as a narrow path with dangers on either side but as a corridor with doors and windows that lead to new opportunities

Control is an illusion. We get to micromanage certain small parts of our lives, and that makes us feel in control, but the reality is that even the self- employed control very few parts of their lives, and employees control even less. Real freedom comes with the paradigm shift of understanding that, ultimately, we really don’t have much control.