Music Credit:
"Fear" by Ben Rector
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Listen to "Fear" by Ben Rector
Listen to The Inward Nine with Chandler Withington
"Many Situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking. You don't need all the answers right now, new paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started" - James Clear
"Believe you can and you're halfway there" - Teddy Roosevelt
"Fall in Love with the Process"
"You can change everything in your next conversation" - Jefferson Fisher
Two ancient terms I live by, and their meanings:
"Amor Fati" - Love your Fate
"Luctor et Emergo" - I Struggle, and Emerge
"What if, when others are upset, envious, excited, passive or greedy, you were objective, calm and clearheaded? How much more relaxed would you be?"
"To create a good habit you must make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying." - James Clear
Reflections from Conference in Tampa, Florida this past week.
"A boundary is something you tell someone you are going to do, and they have to do nothing in return".
"Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them, but because we had them." - Seneca
"And a Commitment to justice in your own acts. Which means, thought and action resulting in the common good. What you were born to do" - Marcus Aurelius
"Courage is the ability to retain strength of character and our morals in the face of fear and the desire not to do so" - Epictetus
"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not in my control and which have to do with the choices I actually control" - Epictetus
"Last Year is dead, they seem to say, begin afresh, afresh afresh." - Philip Larkin's "The Trees"
"People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care." - John C Maxwell
"The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect." - James Clear
"Listening well is one of the most powerful skills you can bring to a difficult conversation"
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