Month: June 2020

Improve the present moment

Young Steve Jobs in deep thought
Young Steve Jobs in deep thought. Contemplation and self-reflection are analogous to sharpening the saw before felling trees.

John Wesley said…

(S)he who has governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

In a world void of abundant role models for life balance – personal vibrancy – in mind, body, spirit, work, and home…

…and with a clock that waits for no one, i have taken the risk to offer what most are too busy, or too afraid, to do…

…take control of all the controllable things in their life.

Your thoughts, your physical activity and choices, your peace and contentment, your work contributions, and your personal organization at home.

Improve your present moment.

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The 2 notebooks from life

sitting poolside in Orlando
Sitting poolside late yesterday afternoon for an executive coaching call.

The purging is progressing nicely. Shelves are 80% done. Yesterday i attacked the first of three 4-drawer file cabinets. The biggest “file folder” is the backup paper copies of the two lifetime quotes, sayings, and articles collection.

There’s a page per calendar day, plus some extras – about 400 pages.

Many quotes from the pre-internet easy-access decades.

What will follow in the days to come is the sharing of noteworthy quotes.

The internet makes every quote accessible. The ones shared on these blogs are the ones that crossed my path pre-internet.

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

William Ellery Channing

To lose patience is to lose the battle.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be not impatient with thine brother, with thine neighbor, and – most of all – with thine self.

Edgar Cayce

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What is COVID-19 showing you?

steve jobs on stage unconventional pose
Photo: From a magazine featuring Steve Jobs’ life.

What is COVID-19 showing you?

Where are you looking?

What are you drawn to (focused on)?

What are you doing with what you see?

Have you thought about what you haven’t been considering?

That’s where i’m spending most of my time – what have i not considered.

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Can’t turn it off

TED talk title slide for Master She Heng Yi
5 hinderances to self-mastery…more clarity equals better decisions…blinding flash of the obvious.

Can’t turn it off.

What can’t you turn off?

An insatiable desire to learn.

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2020 Rethink, Reprioritize, Recommit

jeff noel in Glacier Park
Photo courtesy of Jody Maberry. Ahern Pass in Glacier National Park, podcast recoding August 2019.

2020 Rethink, Reprioritize, Recommit:

Rethinking, for sure.

Reprioritizing, doesn’t seem so.

Recommitting, with purging “stuff”, absolutely.

The progress is slow and sometimes medium, and it always remains invigorating.

Why?

i can see the end.

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