🤔 Morning thoughts (March 3 - 9)
Every Sunday I share a quote and a reflection on it for each day of the week.
Themes of the week: Abundance, Presence, Patience, Awareness, Service, Truth, Influence
Sunday - March 9, 2025
"Successful negotiators don’t offer what they want but what the other party wants. What they want is what someone else has. And if someone else already has it, why would this someone else want it? Remember: to want means to lack."
Taraban, Orion, The Value of Others
Acting from a place of abundance means you know exactly what you have and what you don’t have but you don’t want nor need anything. Serving others comes natural when you are plenty.
Saturday - March 8, 2025
"Intention combined with detachment leads to life-centered, present-moment awareness."
Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
It’s fascinating that to stop being closed off and to start seeing others, you need to focus more on the moment. Presence is in the details.
Friday - March 7, 2025
"Success is a long game. That means putting in the work and staying committed even though there’s no clear view of the success that’s waiting for you. Outlasting everyone else is about stamina, tenacity, and getting comfortable with the unknown."
Ryan Serhant, Big Money Energy
Hard work is not enough. You also need to be stubborn and patient enough to keep at it without any results showing for it. Become attached to the process not to the outcome.
Thursday - March 6, 2025
"We humans just have a penchant for thrashing around on the surface, not paying attention to the simple mechanics down below."
Sam Carpenter, Work the System
What if, today, you paid attention to something other than yourself? Start with the next moment. Repeat.
Wednesday - March 5, 2025
"You will be judged on how well you treat those who can do nothing for you."
Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living
Anytime you share energy with no expectation of getting it back you’re saying to yourself you have enough. You are enough.
Tuesday - March 4, 2025
"Truth and reality are nevertheless different things, because no matter how truthful an account is, it can never represent reality in all its aspects."
Yuval Noah Harari, Nexus
To control your reality you have to find your own truth and pursue it relentlessly. It won’t be a universal truth but the trick is believing and trusting it as if it was.
Monday - March 3, 2025
"The Master doesn’t talk, he acts. When his work is done, the people say, “Amazing: we did it, all by ourselves!”"
Tao Te Ching
The most powerful influence is selfless service. When you act in alignment with your values, care about what you do and for whom, the result is always positive energy that compounds.