ideas for being amazing

Aim For Done

done is better than perfect

Facebook has the words “Done is better than perfect” painted on their walls. Why?  Because they figured it out.  Sure perfect sounds good: I’m going to start a blog this year, I’m just waiting for the timing to be perfect.  Or, I haven’t proposed yet, but I will, I am just waiting for things to be perfect.  Or, I’m going to…

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All Walls Are Not Created Equal

berlin-wall-freedom

Walls tell us where we should and should not be.  They tell insiders to come on in and outsiders to stay out. When we see walls that do not belong to us it becomes abundantly clear that it’s time to walk away.  Given what physical walls mean to us, it is no surprise that when we run into mental walls…

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Expose Yourself Little-By-Little

arachnophobia_why

When we were young, the idea of chasing our dreams excited & inspired us. But now, the thought of chasing our dreams makes us sweat.  It makes us nervous.  It paralyzes us.  We still dream dreams but the thought of chasing our dreams scares us to death.  We have dream-chaser phobia. Experts have a way of dealing with phobias called exposure therapy, where…

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My 2012 Birthday Wish

butterfly in tree rings

Thank God I have made it to see another year.  As I enter a new year of life for me there are three emotions that best describe how I feel: blessed, thankful, and full of high expectations regarding my future.  Blessed and thankful because I’ve been given and done so much.  Full of expectations because not only do I know…

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2012, The Year of the Microaction

resignation letter

Happy New Year; 2012 is finally here!  We’ve spent the last few weeks in preseason mode: evaluating our jobs, planning our retirement speech, identifying how much time we want to spend doing great work and getting our tools right so we can accomplish the job. We’ve done it well and we’ve done it all with one idea in mind: this is…

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I Am Not Afraid To Fight

boxer

Fear is a thief. Though fear exist to help us respond to perceived threats before it is too late (cavemen needed something to tell them to run with a lion was near by); fear has morphed into an intruder, robbing us of our ability to chase our dreams, listen to our hearts, and accomplish the amazing. We fail to fall…

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