🤔 Morning thoughts (April 21 - 27)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Acceptance, Accountability, Intuition, Detachment, Perception, Mastery, Leadership
Sunday - April 27, 2025
"Your Self-Talk is at the heart of something we call “acceptance,” and helps set up your daily perspective on life. There are times in life when all of us feel compelled to put up with a bad situation. But it is completely up to you whether you let that situation work against you, or make a mental decision to see it in a different way."
Dr. Shad Helmstetter, What to Say When You Talk to Your Self
Acceptance is the first state of expansion. When you embrace your situation and open up to controlling what you can you truly start creating. Acceptance is an active state, you just have to realize it.
Saturday - April 26, 2025
"By the time I graduated, I knew that the confidence I’d managed to develop didn’t come from a perfect family or God-given talent. It came from personal accountability which brought me self-respect, and self-respect will always light a way forward."
David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me
The highest and purest form of accountability is the one you keep with yourself. When you manage to guard your own priorities and habits even when no one is watching (because they can’t) that’s when you come to respect and value yourself completely.
Friday - April 25, 2025
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Don’t waste your intuition, trust it to guide you in the direction you need to go. It might not be where you want to go, yet, but it still serves you.
Thursday - April 24, 2025
Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn’t cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.
Tao Te Ching
Leave your ego at the door and give yourself to the task at hand, no matter how difficult you perceive it to be. The problem is your perception, not the task itself. Mastery requires detachment.
Monday - April 21, 2025
If you want to be a great leader, you must learn to follow the Tao. Stop trying to control. Let go of fixed plans and concepts, and the world will govern itself.
Tao Te Ching
The hardest part of leading others is leading yourself first. When you’re not your exemplar how can others trust you?
Note: Slightly shorter issue this week as I spent 1-2 days on my roadtrip from Italy back to the UK.
