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Accelerate Serendepity

My favorite thought from last year was in an article on Tony Hsieh’s thoughts on ‘accelerating serendipity’.

The last thing we want from our days is for them to be consistently similar.

In the end, our lives and our businesses are ideas about ideas and more often than not our new ideas come to us when our paths have hints of randomness and serendipity.

Read the random book.

Shake hands with the stranger.

Take the long route to work.

Listen to the weird tunes.

This is how one accelerates serendipity.

And then you will…

See what you never saw and hear what you never heard.

 

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Fully be…

…present in the moments ahead.

…with this week.

…engaged with this year.

…inhabited in this experience.

Fully be here – right here.

Right now.

We miss the majority of what was meant for our soul’s consumption today when we’re fixated on ‘what’s next’.

In the words of Annie Dillard, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

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Have You Seen The Instruction Manual?

The short answer is no. You haven’t seen an instruction manual because there isn’t one.

Of course we don’t call it that though.

We call it college.

We call it the corporate ladder.

We call it schmoozing.

And now all of this isn’t making true on its promise to fulfill our dreams.

Here’s the catch: There isn’t a map for what you were sent here to do and there’s a reason something inside of you turns when you look out over an empty ocean.

Leave the shore. Sail your vessel. Return with your instruction manual.

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Clicking ‘Enable Awareness’

In default mode we miss a lot. So we must click ‘enable awareness’ to leave our default settings.

In default mode we react. When awareness is enabled we respond.

In default mode we breathe. When awareness is enabled we breath deeply.

W.H. Auden once wrote, Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences. As Ortega y Gasset said: “Tell me to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are.”

A payment to attention is an eternal investment with endless ramifications.

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The Previews

Einstein once said that ‘your imagination is a preview of life’s coming attraction.’

The Book of Proverbs relays that ‘as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.’

Dreams happen twice.

Once between your ears and once at your fingertips.

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