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The only way to last a really long time is to build something useful enough that people will want to keep it going after you die, and to cultivate a sense of ownership in other people. In short: make good shit and give it away as fast as you can. -Lisa Williams
Great Stuff from The Universe via www.tut.com It's not the dazzling voice that makes a singer. Nor clever stories that make a writer. And it's not piles of money that make a tycoon. It's having a dream and wanting to live it so greatly, that one would rather move with it, and "fail," than succeed in another realm. You so have what it takes -The Universe
Great Stuff from The Universe via www.tut.com If you can see it in your mind, it's real. And if you can consistently hold onto that image, if only when you visualize each day, the hard part is done. All that remains is merging the two worlds together, the present and the one you've imagined, which is my part. And you can best help me align circumstances, coincidences, and chance encounters by getting busy, going out into the world, and moving in the general direction of your dreams, even if only to do what your peers might do, who know not of life's magic. But you know the truth. You know how life works. Do not waiver in your march. No matter how humble your steps, this is how I will reach you. And as you witness one dream come true after another - first the small ones, then the big ones, then the huge ones - you'll remember why you were first drawn to the jungles of time and space... if you haven't already figured it out.
Great Stuff from The Universe via www.tut.com What if happiness didn't have anything to do with what you had, where you've been, or who you were, and arose entirely from what you chose to think about, yet nobody knew this? And that changing your thoughts, so that you could feel happier more often, would entirely change what you had, who you were, and where you're headed, yet nobody knew this either? Do you think if we told them they'd choose to think differently? -A note from the Universe, via www.tut.com
CareerCycles Tip #32: Resistance is about believing that you are vulnerable or susceptible to something not wanted and holding a stance of protection, which only holds you in a place of not letting in the Well-being that would be there otherwise. There is nothing big enough to protect you from unwanted things -- and there are no unwanted things big enough to get into your experience. dailyquote@abraham-hicks.com
CareerCycles Tip #31: So, perhaps our task in this shaky, fast-changing, bewildering world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left. -Itzhak Perlman
CareerCycles Tip #30: Funny, how when one links job satisfaction to financial compensation, they're never paid "enough." Yet, when they see work as a way to dance with life, meet new people, and unleash the creative tiger within, they become very rich, indeed. -Notes from the Universe at www.tut.com
CareerCycles Tip #29: “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” –Albert Einstein
CareerCycles Tip #28: People of every age and in every walk of life seem to regret not having done things much more than they regret things they did, which is why the most popular regrets include not going to college, not grasping profitable business opportunities, and not spending enough time with family and friends. -Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness
CareerCycles Tip #27: Because we do not realize that our psychological immune system can rationalize an excess of courage more easily than a excess of cowardice, we hedge our bets when we should blunder forward. -Daniel Gilbert in Stumbling on Happiness
CareerCycles Tip #26: I am thankful that I cannot outsmart the ways of the universe. May I honour my confusions as my path. –David Richo
CareerCycles Tip #25: Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up 'cause they're trying to get ideas. -Paula Poundstone
CareerCycles Tip #24: Once a year, go some place you've never been before. -Dalai Lama, Instructions for Life in the New Millennium
CareerCycles Tip #23: “You will never be able to escape your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.” –Paulo Coehlo in The Alchemist
CareerCycles Tip #22: “‘There is only one way to learn,’ the alchemist answered. ‘It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.’” –Paulo Coehlo
CareerCycles Tip #21: There are strategies you can pursue to lure luck out of hiding. -Tom Peters
CareerCycles Tip #20: Ordinary people believe only in the possible. Extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. And by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. --Cherie Carter-Scott
CareerCycles Tip #19: Take fear, remove the negative-expectation component, and bingo, you've got exhilaration! –Paul Levesque
CareerCycles Tip #18: Opportunities always look bigger going than coming.
CareerCycles Tip #17: I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. -Robert Frost
CareerCycles Tip #16: I don't want my tombstone to read, "He did tolerable stuff for tolerable people because they paid him." -David Maister
CareerCycles Tip #15: Great ideas are like coffee. They don't stay hot forever.
CareerCycles Tip #14: The future is not the result of choices among alternative paths offered. It is a place that is created.
CareerCycles Tip #13: A life well lived is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. -Mother Theresa
CareerCycles Tip #12: If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. --Katherine Hepburn
CareerCycles Tip #11: A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. -George Bernard Shaw
CareerCycles Tip #10: Anyone can count the seeds of an apple. Who can count the apples in a seed?
CareerCycles Tip #9: See, I think we have to ask ourselves--and this is corny in a way--what are we doing here. And I've become convinced, after a lifetime of asking that question, that we are here to enlarge our souls, light up our brains, and liberate our spirits. -Tom Robbins
CareerCycles Tip #8: There's more to life than increasing its speed. -Gandhi
CareerCycles Tip #7: To the courageous, good and bad luck are like the right and left hand. They use both. -Catherine of Sienna
CareerCycles Tip #6: The work you give yourself to can enrich your life or seduce it away from you. -Barbara Sher
CareerCycles Tip #4: Life expands or contracts in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin
CareerCycles Tip #3: If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
CareerCycles Tip #2: A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are for.
CareerCycles Tip #1: You're more authentic the more you resemble what you dream of. -from the movie, All About My Mother