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“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward.”
In the popular workbook activity, connect the dots, you typically look ahead to connect one dot to the next. But life is not a workbook activity. This quote, from Steve Jobs’ 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, reminds us that, in life, you connect the dots looking backwards not forward.…
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“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
This quote, by Gilda Radner, gives us a great summary of life. It’s about change, enjoying each moment, and seeing the silver lining, all the while not knowing what’s around the corner. In a nutshell, it’s about change, mindfulness, and gratitude in the midst of uncertainty. But the part of…
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“Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.”
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
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“All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.”
This quote, by Baltasar Gracian, gives us a different perspective of time. It’s the only thing we all really have. Even someone with absolutely nothing has it. But when it comes to free time, we don’t all have the same amount. And what we physically possess isn’t always a predictor…
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“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
This quote, by Benjamin Disraeli, really speaks to me as I reflect on some difficult choices I’ll need to make–Choices that will ultimately result in action. Doing nothing and staying in a place of familiarity, i.e. inaction, is often our easiest and most popular decision. Most of us don’t venture…
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“If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things”
Many of us want to achieve and experience big things. However, we often overlook a key ingredient: the culmination of small things needed to get to the big thing. This quote, by Richard Branson, reminds us that there’s no way we’ll have time for the big things if we don’t…
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“There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.”
Being fast and doing the most in the least time is something we’ve come to praise and idolize as a society. Games, sports, and competitions of mental aptitude are often won by whoever is fastest. There is no reward for the slowest person to win a race, the last person…
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“Let us make our future now, and let us make our dreams tomorrow’s reality.”
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
“Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.”
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“Money is ultimately not enough compensation for investing your time and energy. There has to be a sense of purpose, meaning and fulfillment. “
What we do with our time and energy can either come with a cost or reward, or both. This quote by Dan Miller, author of 48 Days to the Work You Love, reminds us of the reward we must go after for the time we invest–and that is purpose, meaning,…
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“Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.”
Sometimes we’re blinded by the things that capture our eye, and we forget to ask ourselves whether they actually capture our heart. Moreover, we confuse the two. But they’re very different. There’s a different feeling you get with the things that capture the heart. It’s the connection you feel with…
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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
“When it is obvious that goals can’t be reached, don’t adjust the goals, but adjust the action steps.”
“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
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“When we try to juggle everything, we can’t enjoy anything.”
Every minimalism sales pitch has a common theme: Less means more. With less stuff, we can enjoy more space and time for what really matters. But minimalism almost always refers to cutting back on physical items that we can see and touch. However, the minimalist concept of less means more…
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“Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings.”
Naturally, we’re sad when something ends–especially something we enjoyed. But as this quote by Jonathan Lockwood Huie reminds us, endings are one of the things that make new beginnings possible. We may not recognize what that new beginning is at first. Sometimes new beginnings are wrapped in disguise. It’s easy…
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“The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.”
“Everything you do, every thought you have, every word you say creates a memory that you will hold in your body. It’s imprinted on you and affects you in subtle ways – ways you are not always aware of. With that in mind, be very conscious and selective.”
H.O.P.E. = Hold On. Pain Ends.
