Every Single Day

If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.? — Heraclitus?

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I know, I know. If you don’t happen to read Dutch, that’s an odd title. It means, “Put your finger up” but we’ll understand it better in English as “Raise your hand.” I’m posting this bit of audio (which is a draft of my talk I’m giving this week called “ The Power of Asking–and the Fear Behind Why We Don’t Do It “) to one of those times when we silently asked a question (which, ahem, means we wer...

When a story is flying along, and I’m so into it that my ‘real’ world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a ‘flow state,’ and it’s better than publication, money, awards, fame.? — Nancy Kress

Every Single Day: I’ve got that down. But what about Every Single Week, Month, Year, or Lifetime? What do you how often? Why? How’s that working out? I wanna know.

They are analogies as personality types or energy sources within us. We’re either The Cruise Ship or The Sailboat. Let’s have a quick look at both types.?

When you’re that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can’t really tell whether you have created the momentum or it’s creating you.? — Annie Lennox

I’m sure I’ve lived some years over and over, but not all of them. Also, I haven’t had 75 of them. How can we make those up to that date not the same? Is the same so bad? How can we make Every Single Year our greatest year yet?

The real energy occurs in each connection between two people, which can bring about exponential returns. — ?Tom Rath

Maybe you’ve got the daily thing going on by now. Awesome possum. But what about weekly, monthly, and annually? What about something you only do Every Single Life?

Struggling with jetlag and creativity lag at the beginning of the year. What to do?

I spent many years slogging away and getting nowhere. Then I spent some more years slogging away harder and getting somewhere. Then I spent less energy and less time and got beyond where I thought I could ever go: anywhere.? Bradley Charbonneau

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‘inspired,’ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.? Dr. Wayne Dyer

If you’re playing to an audience and it’s not you, they might go away.  Then they might come back.  But then they might go away again.  If your audience is you, you know where you are.  At least, probably. 

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.? — Steve Jobs?

You’re at the top of your game. The best in the league. Maybe one of the best players of all time. You have a great night. But you know it can still be better. How are you going to improve?

Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.? — Saint Francis de Sales (?) What if the doctor scribbled the prescription and instead of “medication” wrote “meditation”? I’m just going to bust right through the wall of Part 5: Patience and slip in what I consider the greatest tool that has propelled me further than any other tool–and all oth...

Beware the fury of a patient man.? — John Dryden If Perseverance was torture, this is just salt in the wound. Or wounds. Yeah, sorry. ?But if Perseverance was like the time when you were on a long bike ride and at some point, you no longer realized you were still pedaling, then this is going to be fun.

I’ve known entrepreneurs who were not great salespeople, or didn’t know how to code, or were not particularly charismatic leaders. But I don’t know of any entrepreneurs who have achieved any level of success without persistence and determination.? — Harvey Mackay There are so many reasons (aka excuses) we shouldn’t do this. But we have done, we do, we will do.

I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of sh*t. I try to put the sh*t in the wastebasket. — Ernest Hemingway

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. — Aristotle

If you’re waiting around for perfection, take a seat and brew some tea. It’s going to be a while. “Practice, practice, practice. Oh when oh when am I going to get there?” This squarely falls into the “Simple But Not Easy” category, but it’s a mindset shift, a slight change of the angle of perception. It’s still doing the same thing, but seeing it in a different light.? Practice Doesn’t Make Perfec...

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. — Anton Chekhov To experience the highest levels of meditation, it doesn’t matter what chair you’re sitting in. It’s OK if the chair isn’t your favorite, if your headphones only work through one ear, and you only have half an hour before you have to wake up the kids.

Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done. – Tom Shadyac

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle “Only brush the teeth you want to keep,” says the dentist. Do you agree with the following statements? Only pursue your dream on days when you really feel inspired Don’t write when you know it’s going to be crap–wait for inspiration to strike.   Only work out when it feels good. Consistency breeds creativity.