No one has ever planted a seed and held on.
You have to let it go.
Plant.
Let go.
Plant.
Let go.
This is the pattern that accelerates the serendipity of our lives.
As this serendipity accelerates, you then begin to swap your close-fisted expectations for open-handed anticipation of what just may start to flow your way.
#TonyHsieh
I hope you and yours had a great Thanksgiving!
Here’s a little bit that I crossed paths with this week….
Paradise Now by Tim Mackie, PhD. May we all trade our wounding for wonder and enter the mystical experience of Paradise that is always available, at hand, and among us.
Everything is Waiting for You via David Whyte. This never gets old and is one of my top ten favorite poems.
Warren Buffet’s net worth shows us a great snapshot of gradually, then suddenly….
Take, Thank, Break, Give via the Center for Action and Contemplation.
The River You Touch / Chris Dombrowski was our guest this week @ Good / True / & Beautiful Podcast. So very grateful for his friendship and work in the world.
Greg McKeown has dedicated his career to discovering why some people and teams break through to the next level—and others don’t.
The definitive treatment of this issue is addressed in McKeown’s New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. As well as frequently being the #1 Time Management book on Amazon, this book challenges core assumptions about achievement to get to the essence of what really drives success.
McKeown is the CEO of McKeown Inc. Clients include Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Pixar, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, VMware and Yahoo!.
His writing has appeared or been covered by The New York Times, Fast Company, Fortune, HuffPost, Politico, and Inc. Magazine. He is among the most popular bloggers for the Harvard Business Review and LinkedIn’s Influencers group: averaging a million views a month.
In this latest episode of Good / True / & Beautiful, Ashton interviews Greg on his latest book, Effortless.
Every day you can stop, reflect, and ask two questions…
‘What’s working?’
&
‘What’s not working?’
A simple pause amidst the noise just may let the music start to play.
Warren and Charlie offered their annual insights for five hours. For over fifty years, they’ve kept it simple and quiet with peanut brittle and coca-cola.
David Whyte’s poem, Everything is Waiting for You, fits perfectly in any season of life.
Angela Duck confirms that curiosity has a direct correlation with positive feelings in our lives and relationships.
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