Have you achieved your big goals for this year?
It’s okay if you haven’t. Everyone goes through hardships and difficulties, much like Graeme Greene writes in The Third Man (also available on Audible):
One never knows when the blow may fall.
So, if you need more guidance, here are some of my favourite Seth Godin quotes from his 2023 blog posts, together with a recommended title from Blinkist.
All the no-compromise solutions have failed. If there was a way to solve our problem without giving something up, we would have done that already. ~ The list of compromises
Learn more: Managing Transitions
Complicated problems have a solution, and the solution can often be found by breaking the complicated portions into smaller pieces. ~ Complex or complicated?
Learn more: Why We Make Mistakes
Get it wrong the first time. Then make it better. ~ Getting it right the first time
Learn more: Right Kind of Wrong
Hope can fuel us. Hope can be refilled. Hope opens the door to possibility. Expectations, on the other hand, are a trap. They make us brittle and lead to disappointment. ~ Hope and expectations
Learn more: Hope for Cynics
If the easy thing worked, you would have done it already. ~ While standing on one foot
Learn more: The Art of Resilience
If there’s someone else in the world who solves problems differently than you, perhaps you could bring their point of view to the table, even (especially) if it doesn’t come naturally. ~ The lens or the problem?
Learn more: Uncertainty
If you’re lost on purpose, you’re not lost. Lost is only possible if you are fixed on getting somewhere specific. ~ Lost on purpose
Learn more: Transitions
It might not seem like a feature to you, but the bad parts are often the flip side that allows the other part to exist. ~ (Without the bad parts)
Learn more: The Power of Regret
It’s almost impossible to avoid making a mistake. But avoiding the second mistake (or, just as likely, the cover-up) is a learnable skill. ~ The second mistake
Learn more: The Setback Cycle
Many of the problems that we seek to solve are actually invented, and maybe we could benefit by simply walking away. ~ Solving invented problems
Learn more: Never Enough
Once we realize that a problem we have isn’t a problem at all, but actually a situation, it’s easier to do our best to move on and thrive. ~ Working with problems
Learn more: The Mindful Way Through Depression
Our success has a lot to do with how we dance with conditions that aren’t quite perfect. ~ The perfect conditions
Learn more: Ganbatte
Problems don’t really care whether we acknowledge them or not. They still exist. What matters is how we choose to direct our energy, because our tomorrow is the direct result of the way we spend our resources today. ~ Choosing your problems
Learn more: Psychobabble
The best way to fix something is to look at what we assume is the ‘right’ starting spot. ~ What are the defaults?
Learn more: Rejection Proof
There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is what happens when we refuse to learn from our mistakes. ~ There are no stupid mistakes
Learn more: Black Box Thinking
The stuff that matters is almost always inconvenient. If it’s not, you might be mistaken about what matters. ~ Inconvenient!
Learn more: Grit
The world changes and we have a choice: Fight hard to keep it the way it was or notice what happened and then decide to do something with that insight. ~ And then that happened
Learn more: Mind Shift
Waiting for the hero to save us just in time isn’t nearly as productive as realizing that we have agency. We have the agency to quit when it makes sense to quit (ignoring sunk costs) and we have the agency to dig in deeper when it really matters (acknowledging that it might not work). ~ Just in time
Learn more: Awaken The Giant Within
When Resistance arises, and it always does, we can see it, name it, and gently move on. ~ Project resistance
Learn more: The Inner Work
When we rewrite our narrative of the past, we end up creating a different future. We have more control over that narrative than we give ourselves credit for. ~ It could have easily gone the other way
Learn more: Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life
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