[tweetmeme] You’re already designing a life where you can express your beliefs and values in your work.
“What if we looked at the world as a design project – how might we begin to make it better?” - Bruce Mau
Try looking at your world more optimistically. Seek possibilities for improvement. Let yourself dream of ways to make it better. Be a designer of your world.
“Criticize By Creating” - Michelangelo
Ask Why? Ask the dumb questions. If the answers don’t work for you, opt out. ‘Should be’ and ’suppose to’ aren’t reasons to do anything.
Do it your way. There’s nothing you ‘have to’ accept. This is the new economy and it’s puzzle pieces are just starting to take shape. Get off the trail and see where it take the world.
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How do you feel about this definition of happiness?
Happiness is felt when one is:
- engaging in satisfying work
- avoiding negative events and emotions
- feeling gratitude, forgiveness and optimism
Is happiness enough?
Not for Me. And I’d argue it’s not enough for You either. For our Innerpreneurial drive isn’t fueled by our lack of happiness and our desire to obtain it, rather it’s fueled by our desire for meaning.
[tweetmeme] I’ve noticed that people often use the word “compromise” not in relation to a mutual concession or a trade, but to describe the betrayal of their principles, the surrender of their belief to the groundless claim of another.
A “compromise” in this instance could be a wife’s surrender to her husband’s irrational demands for social conformity or pretended religious observance. Or a writer creating books to please “the public”, against their own judgment and standards.
Let’s make a deal
A compromise, by definition, is an agreement or a settlement of a dispute that is reached by each side making concessions. That means both parties in the compromise have some valid claims and some value to offer each other.
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We’ll connect when I’m good and ready
Why do we feel that it is our duty to be available whenever someone wants us? I am working to relinquish myself from this self-imposed duty to stay connected.
I like to connect, but I am not easy to connect with. Relatively speaking.
I don’t list my phone number and most phone calls are left for the machine to answer. I don’t own a smart phone and my emails are read and answered twice a day. I’m not on FaceBook. And I rarely instant message.
Do you ever wonder that sometimes? I wonder do on my darker days. I wonder what’s the point of caring about things that most people don’t give a shit about. Sometimes I wonder if I would be more at peace if I suddenly stopped paying attention.
I wonder what’s the point of being committed t0 a problem when so may others are not taking action.
Why is it that ‘being realistic’ is synonymous with being pessimistic? Why is being negative being real? Who decided that life is actually cruel and unkind?
Who determined that being an optimist was the antithesis of being a realist? I know, I know, being an optimist means I’m in lala land. Get real, people. Your thoughts (both conscious and unconscious) dictate the reality of your life.
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.
