Phones
I’m going to give us a challenge you might have disregarded before. Leave your phone at home, turn it off for a few hours, or even the entire day. First, if your answer to reading this is: “There’s no way to do that, I have work, kids, priorities, responsibilities, and, and…”, then it’s probably a…
Resilience
Resilience – “Every challenge is a gift. Every adversity is an opportunity.”- Deepak Chopra
Wisdom
“The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.”– Alexandra David-Néel However, hope can be the greatest of things, says Andy Dufresne. (Just because I share these quotes doesn’t mean I always agree with them. My reasoning behind sharing them is to help me write engaging blog posts as well as…
Transformation
“I’d rather dream large and fail than shoot for mediocre and never discover my limits.”– Diana Nyad I both love and agree with this quote. It reminds me that we are limited by our own willingness to transform in life. I say transform because I don’t particularly like the word change. When we change, say…
Value
“A human sacrifices their health in order to make money. Then they sacrifice their money to recuperate their health. And then they are so anxious about their future that they don’t enjoy the present; the result being that they don’t live in the present or the future, they live as if they are never going…
Destiny
You alone can truly determine your destiny. But there is no need to emphasize such a remark. The question posed here is what factors determine our destiny and are those factors controllable? Destiny is defined as the events that will happen to a particular person or thing in the future. Destiny simply is your future.…
Design
“Great design reflects the broader definition of beauty. Great design is what draws us in.”– Jony Ive I love this quote by Jony, the former chief design officer at Apple who helped transform the iPhone into the staple it is today. Great industrial designs are really great big pieces of art, from the Golden Gate…
Compasses
The past is sometimes like a compass covered in thick dust and grime, in order to find our way we must clean it off to see our direction and keep it clean for future use. I came up with this analogy one day when watching the famous Pirates of The Caribbean movie. In the film,…
Headspace
“The only way of putting the mind at ease is to let go of the desire to want it to be different.”– Andy Puddicombe Ever since I heard this quote after a guided meditation on the influential meditation app, Headspace, my life has changed in the greatest, grandest, and tiniest ways. I even remember the…
Minimalism
What comes to mind when you hear the word minimalism? Minimalism is often thought of as the amount of stuff one does or doesn’t possess, but it goes beyond material possessions. Minimalism is the outward expression to own less, but it’s much more than that. I’ve come to define minimalism by constantly asking myself, “Does…