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The Work and Reward of Building Credit
I like to think about money as an idea in the form of credit. To get in the money game, I need to build up my credit....
Who Defines My Needs?
I make a difference by being what I am. I add value to my world by being the light I am, and by holding onto this...
What’s It Got To Do With You?
I often find that my choices are met with hostility from others.
The resistance is not a result of my choice affecting or hurting the other person, as the decision often has nothing to do with them… the hostility is more about how the decision makes them feel about their Self.
So what if I’m different from you?
To me, the difference between a person committed to a Cultural Creative, Modern or Traditional lifestyle is the values that they choose to actively pursue as goals.
The Generation M Manifesto
written by Umair Haque, originally published on HarvardBusiness.org
Dear Old People Who Run the World,
My generation would like to break up with you.
Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it. I think we have irreconcilable differences.
It Felt Right at the Time
We all make mistakes, we can’t control the fact that we are imperfect. How we react to those mistakes, however, is ours to determine.
Useless regret
It’s easy to look back and chastise your Self for the choices you made — for the words you ‘shouldn’t’ have used or the actions you ‘shouldn’t’ have taken. We beat our Self up for hurting others, for being misguided in our actions, for being wrong. We wonder how we cold have been so stupid and we wish we could go back in time and undo what was done.
What I’ve Learned from the Tao Te Ching
The truth on the art of living
These are direct excerpts from Stephen Lam’s English translation of the Tao Te Ching. The headers are my take on the whole thing.
On being
The more truly solitary we are, the more compassionate we can be.
The more we let go of what we love, the more present our love becomes.
Acting Bigger Than You Are
Do you ever say ‘we’ when you are really just an ‘I’? Does your marketing portray a company much larger? Why are you acting bigger than you are?
You worry that people won’t take you seriously if you show how small you truly are… but you’re wrong.
Being Spiritual in a Religious World
I don’t practice a religion, unless you consider Christmas a religion. I was baptized Anglican but as soon as I could make my own decisions, I determined Christianity was not for me. I’ve never liked being told what and how to think about things. And God is a big one.
Flash forward 10+ years later and I find myself madly in love with a Jewish man. We love each other passionately but we are told that it can’t work, it won’t work and that our life together will be too hard.
Don’t Implement Solutions. Prevent Problems.
We waste so much time and money trying to fix the messes we have created. Yet everything we implement to clean up our bad decisions won’t be enough if we keep on creating new disasters.
Shouldn’t we have thought of that before?
Practical Pessimism
Sometimes a lack of confidence can help.
Hope is a great quality and it is no doubt that your optimism towards what is possible has led you to where you are today. But pessimism about the future has a necessary place in your life and business too.
Optimism rules when anticipating (predicting) and enjoying outcomes — but there’s also great value in being pessimistic when preparing (considering) outcomes. After all, things don’t always go ‘our way’.
Connect, Then Sell
How can you sell to someone you don’t even know? How do you know you can help or add value to their lives when you don’t even know their problem?
Get to know your prospective client before you tell them what they need. Build a connection, understand their challenges, show that you respect them as an individual. No one appreciates being treated like a walking $ sign.