Despair
- despair.com
Hundreds of years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove... But the world may be different because I did something so bafflingly crazy that my ruins become a tourist attraction.
Motherway
At night while watching television, invariably a commercial will come on that has the same exact ringtone my phone has. I look to see if it's ringing. It's not. I feel like a dog who thinks the TV dog is real and starts barking at him until he's out of camera range. I guess stupid would be the word I'm trying to avoid.
Seth Godin
Often, distraction is caused by fear," says Seth Godin, the founder and CEO of Squidoo and the author of 14 books on leadership and business. Fear of? "The quiet, the truth, fear of putting something into the world and saying, ‘Here, I made this.' If you can befriend the fear and embrace the vulnerability that this brings, it becomes significantly easier to be mindful.
Mike Dooley
If I were a business professor and you were my student, today's lesson might sound like this: In the "real" world, it's better to have loved and lost, tried and failed, dreamed and missed, than to sit out your turn in fear. Because the loss, the failure, and the miss, however painful, are merely temporary market adjustments, soon forgotten. Whereas the love, the adventure, and the dream are like investments that, for the rest of your life and beyond, never stop paying dividends.
Mike Dooley
- Persistence
Persistence, persistence, persistence. On the surface it might just seem like physical flailing, but spiritually, you're speaking directly to me and you're saying, "You hear me, and you hear me good! There ain't no way I'm doing without. I refuse to accept 'maybe,' 'sort of,' or 'not yet.' I am the power, the glory, and the way. My words quicken the ether, my actions fulfill their prophecy, and thy Kingdom shall come on earth, as it is in heaven... Pa-rum-pum-pum-pum."
