Food for thought

 You are richer than 93 percent of people. Not in money, but in time. Over 108 billion people have lived throughout history. 93 percent of them are dead. You have what every king and queen, every pharaoh and ruler, every CEO and celebrity of the past would give all their wealth and power for: Today. You can attract luck simply by telling people what you are working on. To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. The people they're too exhausted to be any longer. The people they don't recognize inside themselves anymore. The people they grew out of, the people they never ended up growing into. We so badly want the people we love to get their spark back when it burns out; to become speedily found when they are lost. But it is not our job to hold anyone accountable to the people they used to be. It is our job to travel with them between each version and to honor what emerges along the way. Mistakes are the portals ...

  Three qualities that have nothing to do with talent or intelligence, but can make a dramatic impact on your results: • Cheerful: You are pleasant to work with and generally raise the energy level  in the room. • Accountable:  You feel personally responsible for what you want to accomplish. It is not someone else's job. It's your job. •  Adaptable.  You can find alternate paths to success. You don't need things to be a certain way to be happy. Start with the best opportunity available to you. If you make the most of what you have in front of you right now, better opportunities will become available as you go along. Whenever you are stuck searching for the optimal plan, remember:  Getting started changes everything Strangely, life gets harder when you try to make it easy. Exercising might be hard, but never moving makes life harder. Mastering your craft is hard, but having no skills is harder. Uncomfortable conversations are hard, but avoidin...