A lesson in choosing kindness from the school drop off line
In our busy lives, it’s essential to remember that every small act of kindness contributes to a larger tapestry of community and connection. By making the conscious choice to be kind, we can create a culture where empathy and understanding thrive.
Let’s strive to be the drivers who, even when faced with the chaos of life, choose to pause, reflect, and act with kindness. After all, the benefits of a compassionate approach extend far beyond a single moment; they can transform our days and, ultimately, our communities.
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What can you do to keep learning in a world of algorithms?
You are consuming more information than ever before. Still, you are learning less than ever before because unless you intentionally make an effort, almost all the content is content you are already agreeable to.
Only consuming agreeable content, especially in short form, prevents you from learning.
To relearn the art of learning, you need to be intentional about applying the steps in this article.
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10 Lessons on living your best life from my trip to Colorado
If you move through life at the pace of everyone else, you will experience life like everyone else. If you experience life like everybody else, you should expect to get the same results as everyone else.
So, if your goal is to get better results than everyone else, you must experience life differently.
Here are some examples of the fruits of living differently from a recent trip to Colorado.
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What are assumptions that are worth making? Here are 7.
We are always told not to make assumptions, but should we never assume anything? What are some good assumptions to make? Here are 7 assumptions you should make if you want to live a better life. #bestlife #winning #bestself
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10 things parents are doing to exasperate their children in 2024
What is the goal of parenting?
To raise children who become self-sufficient adults who are decent human beings. Self-sufficient meaning they can manage their own emotions, provide for their own needs, and live in mutually beneficial relationships with others.
This article covers 10 things you are doing that are hurting your ability to lead your kids to success.
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What is the highest form of control?
You have probably heard the advice to control what you can control.
The advice might be followed with a suggestion, which is to write down the list of things on your mind and then to identify the subset of that list that you can control.
The list of things you can control is always considerably smaller than the totality of everything on your mind. But there is a higher form of control that you should be striving for.
It’s as if to say if you can’t control it, you shouldn’t worry about it. A renewed mind paired with self-control habits leads to success in more circumstances and the ability to truly control what you can control, which is yourself. #self-control #selfcontrol #mindset #habits
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10 (+1) Keys to making the most of your 24 hours
So, the true gateway to increased productivity and greater success is to stop living in fear. 10 things you can do to make the most of your 24 daily hours. #productivity, #discipline, #lifehacks
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What do you do when you don’t have 100% to give?
Taking the mindset of giving 100% of all you have, especially when it is less than 100% you have to give, helps avoid procrastination and creates forward movement. You will be surprised how good it feels to accomplish small things when you start from a place of believing you can’t accomplish anything. This article talks about how to do it. #habits #momentum #impact #forward
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If success hurts it isn't success
Truly successful people are achieving a definition of success that they develop for themselves, and they are intentional about the way they achieve and measure success. Truly succession people are filled with joy, not regret. Truly successful people aren’t comparing their success against others because they don’t care; they know success can’t be measured in comparison to others only through comparing today’s version of you to yesterdays.
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You will never achieve perfection but here is why you can’t stop trying
Perfection is a myth. Perfection doesn’t exist. Chasing it is like looking for Bigfoot. It may seem like a fantastic idea because should you achieve perfection (or find Bigfoot), you’ll get lots of recognition. But the reality is no one ever finds Bigfoot, just like no human has ever achieved perfection. All searching for perfection (or Bigfoot) produces is wasted energy, wasted time, and disappointment. The better alternative is delivering impact through significant enough outputs followed by iterative adjustments towards even better outcomes. Here are five reasons you keep chasing perfection. #success #changemanagement #progress
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Things I learned about personal boundaries from cattle
Boundaries are helpful for healthy relationships and safe cattle farming. Be sure to establish, communicate, and maintain your boundaries, so they achieve their intended objective. Remember, if your boundaries are too strong, you will eventually keep everyone out. The goal of boundaries isn’t to keep people out; it is to maintain health and mutually beneficial relationships. #personalboundaries #healthrelationships #farmlife #personalleadership
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Done well and good intentions are not synonymous.
Don't stop looking for ways to sprinkle the small things into your work and personal life. They really do make other people smile. But do these things in such a way that the initial smile doesn’t quickly and permanently fade into a frown because your attempt at a small thing isn’t done well. Three things you can do to get the small things right. #customerservice #service
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2024 Word of the Year: Reflection
Taking the time to reflect will lead to a better life. Here is encouragement to reflect and a path towards making it worth it.
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Find yourself an effective truth teller
We need to find people who can point out our blind spots in an effective way. Here is what to look for.
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Dating as a series of healthy experiments not as wins and loses
In a perfect world, you wouldn’t need to run any kind of experiments. It would be a world without regret. You would already know everything necessary to have an amazing lasting relationship. But the world isn’t perfect. Intentional experiments are how you learn to thrive in romantic relationships while enjoying the journey. #relationships #datingexperiments #healthyrelationships
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What to do with noisy windchimes
You don’t need to solve every problem you encounter, which is good because you literally can’t. Your resources have limits, so you must learn how to manage them wisely, and sometimes that means ignoring the windchime. The decision to live with the occasional noise it creates is more responsible than devoting resources to quieting something when there are minimal returns on creating the silence.
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Is the $1,000 egg worth it?
Wisdom is deciding not to make a decision based on whether or not to pursue something new based solely on the initial cost. Everything worth doing requires an initial investment. Some of those costs might even cause you to reconsider if it is worth it.
Here is a process to help you determine if it is worth.
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What does it really mean that there is a thin line between fear and excitement
Fear and excitement are really close emotionally and during times of change there are a few things you can do to take control of how you emotionally react to change. Choosing excitement over fear and increasing the chances for finding joy during times of change.
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