To all our highly valued clients and acquaintances:
Here we go again?? Many tell me that the current zeitgeist feels so fast paced and large scale, like the beginning of the pandemic 5 years ago, in the sense that we’re experiencing massive uncertainty/challenges galore.
Back to Focusing on What We Can Control, so that we can optimize??
What may it take? Discipline? Structure? Self-Control? Self-Mastery?
One of my mentors recently put it to me this way – we all have an unlimited capacity to increase our capacity. Let’s focus on expanding support for that.
AQ resources are emerging to help strengthen our adaptability/resiliency skills – not just to bounce back, but to also bounce upwards and forward.
“As we navigate this ever-changing landscape of work, it’s clear that the skill of the future is not IQ but AQ – adaptability quotient. The ability to unlearn and relearn as quickly as possible will be the key to success in the modern age” – John Sanei (best-selling author, speaker, trend specialist)
Beware just being a commentator in your life – a voice in the stands.
Major sports stadiums often have 70,000 seated fans (desperately in need of exercise? 😊), screaming what the players on the field should be doing, while 22 active players on the field might desperately need some rest? 😊
As Teddy Roosevelt’s famously said about striving valiantly and daring greatly:
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.” (Speech in Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910)
In that light, who are we going to be? What are we going to choose??
Let There Be Peace on Earth, And Let It Begin with Me? (like the song)
A few familiar phrases that we may want to Remember to Remember??
- Charity begins at home.
- See myself in the mirror.
- If it is to be, it is up to me.
- Make myself the pilot project.
- Get blessed and be a blessing.
- Without integrity, nothing works.
- Be the change I seek in the world.
- Focus on progress, not perfection.
- Start by cleaning my own doorstep.
- The best defense is a good offense.
- If we knew better, we would do better.
- Be a model/example of what’s possible.
- We are the ones that we are waiting for.
- An unexamined life is a life not worth living.
- Think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Always advocate and when necessary, use words.
- “If not me, who? If not here, where? If not now, when?”
- Make and keep promises, both to myself and to others.
- Make daily deposits into my own Personal Integrity Account.
- Who I am is screaming so loudly, people can’t hear what I’m saying
- An unexamined life is a life not worth living. To thine own self, be true.
As Mary Kay Ash (an extraordinary American businesswoman with a sales force of more than 800,000 people in at least three dozen countries), said”
“There are three types of people in this world:
- those who make things happen,
- those who watch things happen,
- and those who wonder, what happened?”
A Refresher, from days gone by??
How might “Focus on What We Can Control” work best for us? How can we strengthen those “mental muscles” for ourselves? (Don Sardella/August ‘24)
Shall we set up a brief call to discuss/create what’s most important for you?
Let me know what will serve you best. I prefer to hear more from you.
Don
