Weekly Audio Journal by Kevin Ly Social

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share an emotional equation by Chip Conley. Curiosity = Wonder + Awe Whenever I feel like I'm lacking inspiration it is generally because I am lacking curiosity and so rather than seeking what inspires me, I begin with a question, what conditions make me less curious? From there I can begin a process of elimination so I can creat...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. I'd like to share a quote about saying no, "You have to say no to good things, to be able to say yes to important things. You can't possibly do it all. Be mindful and choose wisely today. Remind yourself that the quality of your life 10 years from now will greatly depend on how well you respect your present priorities." This quote was a great remi...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have a quote by Friedrich Nietzsche, " There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy." Growing up as a male I often with hold my emotions and shielded them from the world. Only as I grew older I started to understand the power of emotions. When you're feeling anger, it's telling you where you feel powerless. Your anxie...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. This week for me has been a great reminder of a quote being kind is greater than being right. Many times when we find ourselves in arguments whether it's at the workplace or with loved ones. Often our ego gets in the way and it becomes a battle about being right. I think it's important that we step back, we listen and if it's for the overall good...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I would like to share a quote by Peter Drucker, he says "You spend too much time thinking about if you'll be successful. It's the wrong question. The question is how to be useful." For a long time, possibly because of the way I grew up being successful was important coming from an immigrant family and that was something that I heavily sought...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share one of my favorite quotes by Agnes Martin. Happiness is everywhere. When we are unhappy, it is because something is covering our minds and we are not able to be aware of happiness. When the difficulty is past. We find happiness again. Happiness is unattached. Always the same. It does not appear and disappear. It is not some...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote from Jocko Willink, "Don't expect to be motivated every day to get out there and make things happen. You won't be. Don't count on motivation. Count on discipline." There are just days when you won't be inspired or really want to do much of anything at work. It happens but don't let it discourage you. As a leader you...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote taken from the Sam Parr podcast. In the podcast they were sharing that it is difficult when asking for a winning formula from someone successful. The answer usually involves it depends, circumstances are always different and generally it's hard to find a winning formula. However if you ask for the mistakes and avoid...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to talk about energy management, everyone has the same amount of time, 24 hours in a day and so being equals in that level then it's all about how you manage your energy. With low energy what you end up doing in 10 years may feel like you haven't done much or achieved much on this earth but with high energy what you could achieve in...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to talk about the topic of resilience. Growing up in an immigrant family, I watched and observed how my parents were able to navigate through a country where they couldn't speak the language. They weren't exactly completely happy with their lives but they worked hard, they saved and they provided for the family in need. Watching the...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share some advice about shifting your mental state. There's challenging times at the moment with grief going on around the world, on top of an already challenging time with COVID pandemic. When people are mentally down, it is very difficult to will your way out of it, to challenge the mind with the mind. However it is a lot easie...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share the hedgehog concept by one of my favorite mentors, Jim Collins. This one is from his book Good to Great. The hedgehog concept is an intersection of three circles. Firstly, what are you deeply passionate about? Two, what you can be the best in the world at? And three, what best drives your economic and resource engine? Now...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share some thoughts that I've been thinking about. It's been playing on my mind for quite a while and that's about becoming more global. Why go global? I think we're at the perfect intersection of time and technology at this point. The whole thing was sped up by the COVID pandemic. Making us join more zoom calls, be more digital...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a concept about the long tail. I think in today's environment we often have the feeling to do things quickly. When we set goals, we want them done quickly but I think if we reframe them, take a step back and choose to do it over a long run. For example, instead of getting a project done within the next few months or the nex...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote from my friend Justin Breen. He shares there are four different types of people: People that take to take. People who take to give. Those who give to take. And finally those who give to give. I think these are a great indicator of what kind of mindset you're in, whether you're in an abundant mindset or you're in a s...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a tool that I use every day. I learnt this from Jim Collins, one of my favourite teachers and hence I called it the JC log. So it is a tool that helps you bring awareness to your emotional states each day in relation to your activities. I use a Google sheet and every day at the end of the day, I pop in the date, I log what...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a tribute of Thich Nhat Hanh, one of my favorite buddhist teachers. His recent passing has got me searching for my favorite quotes from his books and today I'd like to share the few quotes that have made quite the impact in my life. And I hope that you will enjoy them as well. "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy s...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a post about first principles, in particular a quote that says "Show me the incentives and I'll tell you the outcomes." This is generally geared towards teams and other people, to set incentives to produce an outcome but today I'd like you to reflect. On what could possibly be the incentives in your own life? What is drivi...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Years break. I trust that you've had some time to reflect on the previous year, possibly set some new goals for the new year. Today, I'd like to pose some more questions for you to help you reflect deeper and possibly something for you to take into the new year. Some questions that I asked myself...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote by David Lynch, "I dream, but I don't go by nighttime dreams, it's daydreams that I love. Sinking down, sitting comfortably in the chair where you might be controlling some of the thoughts and directing yourself here or there but at a certain point. The dream takes over and you enter into a place where things are un...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote by Paul Graham, "People are bad at looking at seeds and guessing what size tree will grow out of them. The way you'll get big ideas in say healthcare is by starting out with small ideas. If you tried to do some big thing, you don't just need it to be big. You need it to be good and it's really hard to do big and goo...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a tweet by Barack Obama, " We are the first generation to feel the effect of climate change and the last generation who can do something about it." For myself, when I had turned 30, something had clicked in me. Something had changed. I had this moral uprising that I felt like I had to do something more. Something to do wit...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share with you a quote by Nick Pettit, "You can always make more ideas, but you can't make more time. If you decide to work on an idea, make sure you're serious about it. Sleep on it, think about it, share it with other people. If you're still crazy passionate about it, then do it. I love this because generally I have a lot of pr...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a line from the Daily Stoic, Marcus Aurelius's line "That's what's bad for the hive is bad for the bee." This quote is about a strong sense of community and connection that we struggle to hold on to today. The Stoics believed we were put on this planet for each other. That we each had a role to play in the larger whole. Tha...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share an extract from the Andrew Huberman podcast. He shares "Cool, calm and collected is a visceral meaning. Keeping the palms, feet and face cool to help you regulate temperature. Will also help you keep calm and collected for mental output." This work is based off the research from Dr. Craig Hella. I have been using this metho...