Selling Validation
Twitter and Facebook selling validation through blue checkmarks. Social media has always been selling validation.
But what are they verifying? That's what I want to know.
Noah German
Teaching Flow State
What would it look like if we made helping young people find the things that put them into a flow state a part of education?
What would it look like for productivity?
What would it look like for quality of work?
What would it look like for earning potential?
What
Say Yes to What Is
It's so easy to forget that people all behave based on fear, insecurity, circumstance, and history. All people have good and bad in them. Mostly, people have survival mechanisms that manifest in ways that often they don't even realize.
There are people I love who have
Do It Every Day
If you want to be good at something, do it every day.
Period.
Discipline
Discipline is not making yourself do something you hate. Discipline is working towards something you want in a way that is sustainable.
If you're failing, maybe it's not something you want.
Or, maybe you just haven't found the approach, path, or speed that you
Love Unexpressed
This morning I cried putting on my shoes.
I'm reminded of what Andrew Garfield when his mom died.
😢“I hope this grief stays with me because it's all the unexpressed love that I didn't get to tell her. And I told her every day.
Tucker
Even in pain and not understanding what was happening you wagged your tail when I asked if you wanted to go for a car ride. You climbed into the car yourself.
I'm glad it was an unusually nice day. Fifty degrees and sunny in February. You put your
Identity Change Through Positive Affirmation
There is a lot of talk around positive affirmations. There is something to it. It's no secret that our minds are powerful.
The real power is in identity change.
Studies show that the difference between people who experience massive weight loss and sustain it vs. those who gain
The Power of Giving Things Away
It feels counterintuitive. Giving something away - love, power, expertise, support, help, things - without the expecting something in return. It feels like setting yourself up to be depleted.
But, it all centers around trust. Have you ever trusted anyone who was just out to take from you?
Marketers give
Change and Learning
Learning and change are a never-ending cycle. We change because of what we learn and then we learn anew based on how we've changed.
We can be controlled by this cycle, reacting to circumstance and learning to get by. Or, we can use it as our superpower -