3 IDEAS FROM ME
I.
“Being curious and excited can take you far, especially over the long arc of a life. The person who is a voracious lifelong learner will figure it out eventually. A strong reader with a healthy dose of curiosity and a willingness to try things is hard to stop.”
II.
“Delaying a conversation doesn’t make it easier.”
III.
“Who is initiating the items on your to-do list?
When I’m most productive, I decide what I want to create and work on the task that will help build my vision.
When I am less productive, I spend my day responding to what someone else sends to me — emails, texts, etc. — and often that means I end up building someone else’s vision.”
2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS
I.
Modernist painter Georgia O’Keeffe on making your vision a reality:
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant — there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.”
Source: Georgia O’Keeffe: Art and Letters
II.
Professor and writer Joseph Campbell on following your passion:
“If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say: follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.”
Source: Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
1 QUESTION FOR YOU
Focus less on winning, focus more on improving. What can you do today to feel like you are growing?
Until next week,
James Clear
Author of Atomic Habits
Cofounder of Authors Equity
