Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Kahlil Gibran
"In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of the people's wrath."
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Joseph Chilton Pearce
"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
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Diana Nyad
"There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs."
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Checking IN is Better Than Checking OUT
Checking IN is Better Than Checking OUT
My phone rang at 10:18 this morning.
A long-time listener from San Bernardino, California, was calling to check in with me. He said,
"It's in times like these that we need to check in with folks. You're part of my life every day. I wanted to see how you were doing."
I told him I was okay and how much I appreciated his energy boost.
We enjoyed a very neighborly conversion - and we live more 2000 miles apart.
His call reminded me of something I love to do.
Over the years, I've developed a habit of practicing random acts of happiness, especially when somebody is having a hard time. Even better? When they need a surprise.
It could be a cashier working long hours and their feet hurt. Sometimes I buy a cup of coffee for the person behind me in line - and try to escape for I'm busted. My wife gets a random flower that makes no sense at all - but gets a smile.
Random acts of happiness may be difficult for you when you are stuck at home, but I wonder -
Is there a way for you to practice a random act of happiness for someone today?
In the pandemic pause, we're living in, checking IN is far more important than checking OUT.
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Monday, March 30, 2020
Operation Reinvention: Better and Beyond
Operation Reinvention: Better and Beyond
I woke up this morning with a thought running through my mind and pulsing through my veins. I couldn't stay in bed any longer.
How many closets can you organize? How many Netflix programs can you binge? How long will people wait for others to say it's okay for them to get with their lives?
Everything you have built in your life happened when you found the courage to rally fear, anger, and confusion into motivation and action.
Everything.
Since 2006 I have taught one thing; you can create any lifestyle you choose if you can shake yourself free from your cement shoes and get moving. Nothing has changed in 2020.
COVID-19 is real. Some people will get sick. Some people will die. That's life. It's always been like that - only without 24/7 news coverage, we didn’t know about it.
Life can be difficult, but the real casualties of this pandemic will be those who cocoon themselves in the false sense of safety that comes with waiting to see what is going to happen next.
HELL NO! That's not for me - EVER!
The winners will be those who realize this is a new temporary and that we are not going back to normal.
They will figure out how to use lessons learned and honed over a lifetime to build better and beyond!
Nothing will stop them.
Who you will be when this passes begins by who you are today.
It’s time to decide.
We're going to re-launch Operation Reinvention tomorrow with that goal in mind. And we’re doing it LIVE - details to follow.
I dare to jump on the train to better and beyond.
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Babylonian Talmud
"Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage."
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Arthur Brisbane
"Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily."
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Holly Lisle
"If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense."
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Sunday, March 29, 2020
George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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W. S. Gilbert
"If you wish in this world to advance, your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, or trust me, you haven't a chance."
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William Van Horne
"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing is too big to attempt."
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Saturday, March 28, 2020
Belgian Proverb
"Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you."
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Jane Goodall
"People say to me so often, 'Jane how can you be so peaceful when everywhere around you people want books signed, people are asking these questions and yet you seem peaceful,' and I always answer that it is the peace of the forest that I carry inside."
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Hank Green
"I live in the present due to the constraints of the Space-Time Continuum."
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Friday, March 27, 2020
Heda Bejar
"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose."
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French Proverb
"Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day."
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Arthur Schopenhauer
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
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Thursday, March 26, 2020
Edmund Spenser
"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please."
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Seneca
"We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it."
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Chuck Palahniuk
"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."
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Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Brock Chisholm
"You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale."
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Bessie A. Stanley
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much."
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