Weekly Audio Journal by Kevin Ly Social

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I would like to share one of my favourite articles by Kevin Kelly called 1000 true fans. He shares to be a successful creator you don't need millions. You don't need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients, or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Looking back through my notes I came across this line that I had written down. If you become too regimented, there becomes no space for any give. If something doesn't have any give, it can break easier. Plus it's no fun not having any give. I wanted to share this today because upon reflection my personality is quite regimented, I like to schedule,...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote that I'd written in my notes but I'm not too sure where it was from. It says the "Universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success. This will be much easier to do if you embrace this pronoia." And in this case, pronoia is the opposite of paranoia. It is the delusion that others think well of one. Actio...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. This was our first week since freedom day and since I've had some time to reflect on the past week. It was sweetly painful over the past four months of the pandemic lockdown to get more than a year's worth of time with my partner, to get an uninterrupted streak of morning walks and study blocks during my most valuable time of learning. It was swee...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a blog post from Peter Diamandis. He shares "What made Steve jobs, Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk succeed? Was it the technology or their mindset? Your mindset is the filter through which you see the world. It determines how you spend your time, what decisions you make and where you invest your resources. Before you choose which m...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I would like to share a quote by Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk. "To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment. To appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now." I think often we are encouraged to be more present, more...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a concept I often share with my peers, it's called the life audit. I previously learned this lesson from Tom Chi the founder of Google X and was the first person to prototype the Google glasses. He shared with me, that life is consisted of either A, B or C type activities. A type activities energise you, give you energy whe...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to start with a quote by psychologist William James "With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do." Thus it is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our suppose potentiality. Therefore self-esteem equals succ...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote from Sadhguru, " Gratitude is not something you have to express. If you are filled with gratitude for all the things that contribute to your life, it will melt your very being." Often we are told to have a gratitude practice. Write down three things that you're grateful and thankful for or maybe even in a prayer fo...

Hello everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to share a quote about forgiveness. "Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it was a poison." A few years ago, I went to a conference called Mind valley and I had learned to ancient Hawaiian technique, it was called ho'oponopono. It consists of four phases and I'd like to...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I'd like to share with you two quotes. One by Peter Drucker and the other one about who you spend your time with. Firstly, the one with Peter Drucker. He says, tell me what you value and I might believe you. But show me your calendar and your bank statement, and I'll show you what you really value. The other one is about who you spend your...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I'd like to reflect on a quote by Tony Robbins, "The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the questions you are asking yourself." What is the best question that you can ask your mind today? Better questions lead to better answers. If we're asking ourselves, "What should I do?" Or "How am I going to get there?" Then...

Hello Everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. This passage I have here, I think it's from a book by Sadghuru, Inner engineering. It's about an illusion that we perceive. He says, it is important to be respectable, to be loved and appreciated, to be important. We have a natural urge to be free. A natural urge to love, but not to be loved. You mean, you never have any moments where you forget...

Hello Everyone welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I'd like to discuss a topic about vision. Recently, I learned the relationship between your vision and your state. When you are stressed, when you're focused on something very particular. You start to tunnel vision, your pupils contract. Whereas when you are relaxed, your pupils dilate your vision expands. So sometimes when you're feeling st...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. I have two quotes that I want to share today. The first is "Having a great job, being famous or having a good reputation has absolutely nothing to do with happiness or success. Don't believe it? Ask them yourself or even strive for it. To only realise that after all the energy spent, it didn't mean anything. That one I'm not sure where I got it f...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have a quote from “Good to Great” from one of my favourite authors, Jim Collins. He says the move from good to greatness starts with who first, before the what and how. It's most important to keep the right people on the bus, together you can figure it out. With any great project it requires a team, rarely it is just one person. And so a...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. This week I wanted to share the strategy of preeminence by one of my favourite teachers, Jay Abraham. Essentially the strategy of preeminence is putting your client's needs first and foremost, before your own. Now what that means is, treating a client like a friend. Putting what they need or figuring out, what is best for them. Even if it means...

Hello everyone, welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today is a quote that I've recently come across, it is "A wondering mind is an unhappy mind". Now why is a wandering mind an unhappy mind? Science shares that often, not all the time, but often when we allow our minds to wander. You start to think about the past and typically when we think about the past. It's about things that we could've done b...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today is a phrase that I've gotten by a book that I've read in the past about breath work. It says breathing fast and hard is the exact opposite to what you need when stressed or fatigued. Revert to deep diaphragmatic breathing and keep it light. Now, my friend Brian Lai often shares about how your breath control, controls your life. When you're...

Hello everyone, welcome to this week's audio journal. Today's phrase is something that I learned from one of my mentors Pauline Nguyen. She says, how do you feel the way you want to feel? Who do you need in your orbit to feel the way you want to feel? What environment do you need to be in to feel the way you want to feel? So if you hone in on how you want to feel. Then you can start to choose and...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I have a phrase that I've taken from Tim Ferris. He often mentions, what is one decision you can make today that would eliminate 100 other ones? Or at least I paraphrase. Now, I allude that to also another learning that I've applied more and more over the years, and that's single versus perpetual. What are you doing one time and then you...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today is a phrase that I recorded two years ago now. And it says, try to get your top things that take the most energy done before 12 midday. That way, the rest of it is play. I want to continue a little further on this phrase and it is about. A lesson I learned from Tom Chi who's a co-founder of Google X. And he mentioned that. With your to-do...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I'd like to share a phrase. And it says consciously run lean. Even if you have the resources create necessity and boundaries. The idea is that no matter what you are working on, producing or creating. If you feel like you are in constant abundance and that you can constantly splurge. It'll be challenging to keep things innovative and crea...

Hey everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today I have a question pose and it asks, how could I achieve my 10 year goals in six months? It's an exercise that I often revisit every couple of months. It really helps me get outside of my comfort zone. Whenever you have the chance, have fun with it, dream about it. Have a play with it. Think about what do you really want to achieve in 10 years...

Hello, everyone. Welcome to my weekly audio journal. Today, I have a quote by Kevin Kelly. He shares. Don't create things to make money. Make money so you can create things. The reward for good work is more work. Tony Robbins, Often shares burn your boats. Leave everything behind. So you can focus on what you can solely create. Now I think. That is not an option for everyone. We all have responsib...