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Every time you speak up, you create the opportunity for others to develop awareness and compassion for the issues you think are critical. Awareness and compassion are the foundation on top of which issues get attention & eventually resolution.

As you endeavor to make progress — to move towards a better and important place — consider these three facets that make it possible: focus, remembrance, and specific action.

Needing to take a rest isn't about weakness or failure, it's about meeting your needs as a human so you can flourish and be helpful to others.

You actually can do many of the things you've been meaning to do. You just haven't yet - why? Because if you're like most people, you need multiple exposures to inspiration, ideas, community, and support before springing into action.

Good work and creating an impact has never been about the specific solution, it’s about a repeated process of replacing current solutions with a better way to do things

The finite nature of your time makes a great case for thinking critically about what work is worth spending your limited time on.

When it comes to the quality of your experience and how you deal with challenging moments in life, the quality of your mind and where you focus your attention is all you have.

The tendency to solve forward is makes perfect sense — it comes intuitively and no one questions the approach when you bring it up in meetings. To only solve forward, however, is to deprive yourself of the insight that solving backwards has to offer.

Creating value isn’t something that’s done in one act, it’s the result of 1) finding a solvable problem, 2) committing to regularly ship work that may help address the problem, 3) listening to your intuition and feedback from the people you aim to serve, and 4) repeating steps 2 and 3.

Every thing you could do — whether it’s starting a new project, saying something you’ve been meaning to say, or performing a task that’s part of a larger effort — is preceded by decision about time: whether to act now, later, or never.

Sometimes when you are caught up in the work, expectations and judgment, and deadlines it helps to be reminded of a simple truth: you’re human.

The convenience of having a plan and routine is a double-edged sword: on the one hand it gives you pre-determined cadence of effort that allows you to just focus on the work, on the other hand habits can prevent you from asking the imperative question: does this still make sense?

What does it even mean to begin something? What happens when we begin? Why would be choose to begin at all? This is William Liao on the Daily Spark where I serve up 1 idea daily on how to do our best work and live a meaningful life.

At what point do you become? When does a writer become a writer? When does a marketer become a marketer? When does dancer become a dancer? Is the first word you write? Is it the first content calendar or piece of ad copy you publish? Is it the first sequence of steps that you take? Check out today's Daily Spark for thoughts on becoming, the conditions that allow for becoming, and possibilities bec...