Living to pad your resume or your eulogy?

MacBook 12-inch specs
Quite a resume.

 

Most of us begin logically with trying to get ahead at work. Make more money so we can raise our standard of living.

But now?

An interesting question assuming we have been at work for 20-40 years.

Living to pad our resume or our eulogy?

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Wisdom Book video Trailer

 

This Andrew Zuckerman video shares powerful, and diverse, perspectives on wisdom from many famous people. Ironically, it’s the same stuff non-famous people would say.

What follows at the next four posts today is a series of one sentence questions for each themed blog. Four different questions that famous and non-famous people should answer similarly.

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Wisdom and excellence are friends, not family

Aristotle quote about excellence and habits
Yesterday morning.

 

Wisdom is doing today what won’t make a difference until later.

Wisdom is also leaving undone that which doesn’t matter, even when it seems so.

Excellence at something that isn’t your highest calling isn’t wisdom.

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Our biggest struggle doesn’t need to be

Florida Wildflower
Rare Florida wildflower during yesterday’s run.

 

You know the whole notion of the serenity prayer? To be able to tell the difference between what we can and cannot control.

How’s that working out?

Here’s what i’ve discovered over the years:

My biggest struggle came from not working hard enough nor long enough to intuitively know what i can’t control.

So i hung onto the impossible-to-change stuff. A heavy emotional burden.

Hanging onto this was hell.

Letting go of everything i cannot control is bliss.

Came to find out i focused on what i couldn’t control so i didn’t have to focus on what i can.

Crazy. Stupid even.

Why else would i do it?

Do i still worry about things i cannot control?

The only acceptable answer is, “No”.

Does this sound familiar?

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