Progress is extremely hard

​From Justin Welsh. 

It’s easy to talk about goals. 

Progress is extremely hard. 

Grit is a Predictor of Success

TED Talk excerpt via LinkedIn where the guest describes how grit, not social intelligence or other factors was a predictor for success.

Grit is passion and perseverance for very long term goals. 

Simon Sinek quote about searching for meaning

 As we search for meaning in our lives and work, we must ask ourselves, 

"What is the world I'm helping to build?"

Via Simon Sinek on LinkedIn, May 2022

Turning a page in the story of our lives

 Waking up each day is like turning a page in the story of our lives.

The nature of life is change and resisting change - quote mwme

Luke Skywalker quote about the destiny of a Jedi

 Confronting fear is the destiny of a Jedi.

- Luke Skywalker, Episode IX

Refuse to be your child's first bully - Meme

 

A timely reminder that parents need to support and love their children in all areas of their life. Children need to feel 100% safe to come out to their parents.

You'll Miss Any Chance You Don't Take

You'll miss any chance you don't take.

A few weeks I approached my boss about selling photo greeting cards in our store.  He was more than happy to buy some of my work because he usually had to go about finding cards he liked to sell in the store.  He chose 14 images and ordered almost 100 cards.  That's an excellent start!  And all because I took the time to ask one question.

This spurred me to take action and try to sell my cards at other stores in the area.  Who knows, this could end up being a nice side business and a great way to promote my work.

Top 10 Favorite Star Wars Quotes

Yoda:  Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Angers leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering. 
(The Phantom Menace)

Luke: What's in there?
Yoda: Only what you take with you.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Luke: I can't believe it.
Yoda: That is why you fail.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Yoda: Do or do not...there is no try.
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Obi-Wan: You'll find that many of the truths that we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.
(Return of the Jedi)

Obi-Wan: The force can have a strong influence on the weak minded.

(A New Hope)

 

Yoda: For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship
(The Empire Strikes Back)

Qui-Gon Gin: Remember, your focus determines your reality.
(The Phantom Menace)

Anakin: My powers have doubled since the last time we met, count.
Count Dooku: Good. Twice the pride, double the fall.
(Revenge of the Sith)

Anakin: The jedi use their power for good.
Chancellor Palpatine: Good is a point of view, Anakin.
(Revenge of the Sith)



More great quotes:

Obi-Wan: Let go, Luke.
(A New Hope)

Chancellor Palpatine: Let me help you to know the subtleties of the force...

Chancellor Palpatine: If you wish to become a complete and wise leader, you must embrace a larger view of the force.

Luke: You failed your highness.  I am jedi, like my father before me.

Mace Windu: Don't listen to him, Anakin.
Chancellor Palpatine: Don't let him kill me.

Anakin/Darth Vader: If you're not with me, then you're my enemy.
Obi-Wan: Only a Sith deals in absolutes.  I will do what I must.

Count Dooku: I sense great fear in you, Skywalker. You have hate… you have anger… but you don’t use them.
(Attack of the Clones)

Rigpa Glimpse: Ego plays on our fear of loosing control

Ego plays brilliantly on our fundamental fear of losing control, and of the unknown. We might say to ourselves: “I should really let go of ego, I’m in such pain; but if I do, what’s going to happen to me?”

Ego will chime in sweetly: “I know I’m sometimes a nuisance, and believe me, I quite understand if you want me to leave. But is that really what you want? Think: If I do go, what’s going to happen to you? Who’ll look after you? Who will protect and care for you like I’ve done all these years?”

Even if we see through the lies of the ego, we are just too scared to abandon it; for without any true knowledge of the nature of our mind, or true identity, we simply have no other alternative. Again and again we cave in to ego’s demands with the same sad self-hatred as the alcoholic feels reaching for the drink that he knows is destroying him, or the drug addict feels groping for the drug that she knows after a brief high will only leave her flat and desperate.

Rigpa Glimpse of the Day, April 21