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1/ Life and business are infinite games. The objective is not to win, but to keep playing and perpetuating the game.
2/ Leading well means maintaining a non-anxious presence in an anxious environment.
3/ It’s difficult to reach greatness in one’s public life. It’s more difficult to reach greatness in one’s private life. It’s exceptionally hard to do both and few do.
4/ Greatness in one’s private life is often kept private. Therefore the most successful people in history are generally unknown.
5/ Binary thinking is self-sabotaging. You’ll miss out on so many things.
6/ Leading well is not possible when you’re not well.
7/ The most rewarding things in life are the most difficult. The most difficult thing in life is to change and to do it as regularly as is necessary.
8/ It’s one thing to have an idea, it’s another to describe it, it’s a whole other thing to do it, and still more to live it consistently.
9/ Why is this happening to me? < What is this teaching me?
10/ After basic needs are met (maybe even before), one’s quality of life is produced by the quality of one’s thoughts.
11/ Don’t live the same year 95 times and call it life.
12/ Perfectionism is very costly.
13/ We can’t do anything we want. But we can do orders of magnitude more than we consider in our daily lives.
14/ Work/life is an unfortunate dichotomy that leaves us chasing an ever-fragile and hard to realize balance.
15/ The goal is not to retire; the goal is to feel free, light, and happy.
16/ Preparation is 9/10 of successful execution. The other 1/10 is experience which is itself a kind of preparation.
17/ To heal chronic illness, you’ll likely have to become a different person.
18/ What got you here will get you there. It’s growth.
19/ Put it on the calendar.
20/ The busier you are, the more critical it is that you spend xx minutes per day sitting in silence.
21/ Work is an opportunity to serve and give to others in a sustainable way.
22/ Very few things, if any, can be understood by looking at their surface.
23/ Hiring is hard because the skillset required to attract, inspire, and build a team is not necessarily the skillset that led to the need to build a team. It’s also a skillset often acquired by learning from failure.
24/ The line between planning and procrastination is very, very thin.
25/ The 80/20 of long-term well-being might be the ability to create space — both in one’s calendar and between stimulus and response.
26/ If insecure, comparison leads to more insecurity. If secure, comparison leads to learning.
27/ You don’t have to have an opinion.
28/ The opportunity to find meaning in life is a gift we should not miss.
29/ The highest form of success is feeling love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, and self-control.
30/ Raising a child is one of the great privileges of life.
31/ Things that will make you better in business and life are counterintuitive to the ego. Extreme ownership, for example.
32/ Don’t suppress things.
33/ Doing without believing is without power. So is believing without doing.
34/ Prioritize the growth of traits that benefit both how you feel and how you make others feel. Examples include humility, curiosity, childlikeness.
35/ The less you pay attention the faster it all goes.