What’s in your control:
- what you do
- what you say
- what you think
What isn’t:
- what other people do
- what other people say
- what other people think
– Ryan Holiday
What’s In Your Control
Thinking AGAIN
“No way of doing things is beyond improvement.”
I love Edwin de Bono’s quote above. Read it in the column I am featuring today, written by Thomas Oopong.
How about keeping that quote in mind so you don’t break your own back patting it?
Yes. How about: not only could someone else be doing what I am doing – better – but SO COULD I!
Don’t you just love pushing your lazy self-serving brain around? No? What’s the risk? You might change your mind?
Awwwwwwwww… well don’t look for no sympathy here.
AND…have a good week.
Vicki
How to Use Lateral Thinking to Remove Unnecessary Cycles in Life (excerpt)
by Thomas Oopong
You’d be forgiven if you think lateral thinking is something that only works in the creative industry. After all, who would need to think outside the box in real life? The answer is everyone.
Anyone can find themselves in a situation where traditional thinking simply won’t cut it. It could be a job interview, clarifying a new idea, making a life-changing decision, or another challenge you face daily.
Thinkers like Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Edison all had one thing in common: they were all masters of lateral thinking.
They were able to view problems from unusual angles, coming up with creative or original solutions that others simply couldn’t see.
Inner Idiot
YOU ARE ACTING LIKE AN IDIOT!
The School of Life had a recent post on the “inner idiot” – the one we all shelter within. Obviously the more we accept our own idiot, the more we will accept the idiot in others.
In the coming week, when someone’s actions surprise us, we could remember today’s post and remember, “Oh, maybe I need to find the humor in this!” (Or maybe compassion.)
Good luck!
Hugs to all,
Vicki P
THE INNER IDIOT
‘The Inner Idiot’ is a bracing term used to describe a substantial, hugely influential and strenuously concealed part of everyone. An Idiot is what we deeply fear being, it is what we suspect in our darkest hours that we might be – and it is what we should simply accept, with humour and good grace, that we often truly are. A decent life isn’t one in which we foolishly believe we can slay or evade The Inner Idiot; it’s one in which we practice the only art available to us: sensible cohabitation.
It’s Gotta Be Now
“The crucial point is it has to be now…”
I have several framed quotes on my kitchen counter. One is “If today was the last day of my life, would I do what I am about to do?” “NO!!!” is the answer.
Another quote is: “Base your decisions, not on feelings, but the outcome you want.” I have lost track of what that might even mean right now.
Burkeman has called me on the carpet. I am one that postpones “real life” to the future when I have time. “When I have time” is always the carrot I am chasing. How about you? We need to knock it off, I think…
Control
The word control brings up a myriad of images. It can be negative as in being “controlling” or positive – as in taking control of your life.
How are you doin’?
Me? I can always use some work.
Below is Shane Parrish’s reminder of what we can and do control that can lead to a fuller more gratifying life.
Here’s to finding your sweet spot.
Have a good week!
Vicki P.
Tiny Thought
Things you control:
Luckier You Are
BEAUTIFUL BLOG POST BELOW by Morgan Housel from Collabfund.
… the point being that while we can’t change things, we have the power to respond far better than we usually do, and ultimately affect our “non-lucky” success.
Enjoy your Sunday.
xox
Vicki P
The Luckier You Are the Nicer You Should Be
MAR 2, 2023
by Morgan Housel
An important skill – an incredibly hard one – is identifying when things in your life are temporarily too good, and preparing for the inevitable adjustment.
It’s so difficult, because most people’s willingness to put up with hard times relies on the idea that you’ll eventually be rewarded with good times. When good times come, you feel like you earned it, and nothing is easier to justify than deserved reward.
Roy’s Tuppy
This week I am giving the TB spot to an old friend. Roy is a LA transplant from the Midwest, a retired stock broker… and a dog lover. He writes about Tuppy coming into his and his wife’s lives in 1982, after the death of their beloved Crumpet.
Tuppy’s life was uncomplicated and privileged… marred only by the Clinton/Lewinsky televised sex scandal hearings… and the looming fear of a major stock market correction.
RIP, Tuppy.