Bits of Advice - March

1.  Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
   
   
2. " I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it" - Pablo Picasso. Your entire life will change the moment you embrace the embarrassment of being a beginner. Every expert started out as a beginner.
   
   
3. The quality of your thoughts is determined by the quality of your reading. Spend more time thinking about the inputs.
   
   
4. "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd" - Islwyn JeneinsTo lead is to have the courage to question the consensus. To carve your own path. To create by your own design. Remember that.
   
   
5. The most dangerous person in the world is the one who shows up every single day even when the rewards are uncertain. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.
   
   
6. You are as old as the risks you take. In many ways, aging is not the process of growing old, but rather the slow death of becoming overly protective, scared, and worried about losing what you have. Youth is found in the energy of going for it, taking the risk, and trusting that you'll figure it out along the way
   
   
7. Is your default setting to defend your limitations or expand your possibilities?
   
   
8. To each, there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared. – Winston Churchill. Life is filled with uncertainty. Your natural instinct is to plan in order to avoid it. But planning is based on the expectation of order, something that life very rarely follows. Preparation is based on the expectation of chaos. Preparation is how you thrive through uncertainty. You're standing in your present position, staring out into the abyss—and at some point, life is going to walk up and tap you on the shoulder.
   
   You don't know when it's going to happen. You don't know what it's going to look like. You don't know where that journey will take you. But that moment is your moment. If it passes, it may never come again. Are you going to be prepared for it? What actions can you be taking today to make sure that you are?
   
   
9. The Process:

• Decide what you want to achieve.
• Try different ways of achieving it until you find one that works for you.
• Do more of what works. Do less of what doesn’t.
• Don’t stop doing it until it stops working.
• Repeat.
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  It is both this simple and this hard.