Daily Dose of Positivity – Learning to say NO

“The biggest fear most of us have with learning to say NO is that we will miss an opportunity. An opportunity that would have catapulted us to success or that will never come again. And most of the time, that simply isn’t true.

The first part of learning to say NO is learning to accept that offers and opportunities are merely an indication that you’re on the right path- not that you’ve arrived at a final destination you can never find again.'”

— Grace Bonney on saying no

Waiting rarely makes things easier. Most of the time, waiting makes things harder.

The right time is now.

Daily Dose of Positivity – Self and Team Success

 A sports team where everyone is focused on himself or herself will usually underperform, as will a team in any workplace.

· Great leaders give their teams credit for success and take sole responsibility for failure. This is a rare skill today. Many leaders, especially politicians, love the credit but hate the accountability. However, these are two sides of the same flipped coin.

·       We need to judge our own past successes and failures more objectively. We tend to believe that our achievements are due to our intelligence and smart decision-making while ascribing others’ successes to luck and timing. What if the opposite is true? We should rethink those assumptions more often to avoid arrogance and overconfidence.

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Daily Dose of Positivity – Choosing Talent

If you want to make progress in any area, you need to be willing to give up your best ideas from time to time.

While natural talent may win in the short term, it rarely wins in the long term. A lot of people who are naturally talented don't develop work at getting better.

Eventually, naturally talented people are passed by people who choose talent.

How can you choose talent?

When you focus all of your energy in one direction for an uncommonly long period of time, you develop talent.

What seems like a difference in talent often comes down to a difference in focus.

Focus turns good performers into great performers.

Two keys to focus are saying no to distractions and working on the same problem for an uncommonly long time. Both are simple but not easy

Results follow obsession.

— Advice for Curious People

Daily Dose of Positivity – Goals as Continuum of fulfillment

Many of us set very audacious goals, only to reach the summit and feel let down because the goal does not have a deeper purpose or meaning. Too often, a goal only represents a sliver of time in our lives or an objective we believe will make us happy when achieved, rather than a meaningful continuum of fulfillment. 

Goals tied to purpose are always the most rewarding. 

“If you know the why, you can live anyhow.” – Friedrich Nietzsche