If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.It's scary because it's so obviously right - and because we are all able see it if we look at ourselves in the mirror. It's so easy to find an excuse why something will not succeed, and therefore why I should just as well spare the effort making an attempt. But maybe, we should rather become better to look ourselves in the eyes and ask whether this this thing really is something we want to happen. And if we want to - well, then it is just find the way to go, and make it clear to oneself that excuses are no longer on the agenda. And it goes for everything - from jogging on a daily basis to the really great choices in life. (Translated from Undskyldninger og veje, originally published June 21, 2013)
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Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Excuses and ways
At some point, I was faced with a quote by the late American author and speaker Jim Rohn - a quote that, in all its scary simplicity, goes as follows:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
On the topic of (lack of) focus
Following a recent post, I came to think of a Calvin and Hobbes strip, an old colleague had pasted up on a kitchen cupboard - a strip in which the conclusion is the following one-liner from the mouth of Calvin: "Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"
I am afraid that we modern people have become so focused in our search of euphoria that we cannot hear happiness when it comes knocking on our door. That we have become too focused on how much more that could be poured into the glass of our life that we do not recognize that it is well above half way full. And that we have become too focused on pouring into our own glass without regards to the fact that what we have to fill it with is also important for others' attempts to fill their glasses. And we have thereby become too bad to focus on what is really important.
Now, fortunately, our deceased ancestors are not here to look at us. Because I am really afraid that they would be disappointed to see how we handle glasses, which already contain much more than what would have filled their glasses far beyond spilling over the edge.
(Translated from Noget om (manglende) fokus, originally published March 27, 2016)
I am afraid that we modern people have become so focused in our search of euphoria that we cannot hear happiness when it comes knocking on our door. That we have become too focused on how much more that could be poured into the glass of our life that we do not recognize that it is well above half way full. And that we have become too focused on pouring into our own glass without regards to the fact that what we have to fill it with is also important for others' attempts to fill their glasses. And we have thereby become too bad to focus on what is really important.
Now, fortunately, our deceased ancestors are not here to look at us. Because I am really afraid that they would be disappointed to see how we handle glasses, which already contain much more than what would have filled their glasses far beyond spilling over the edge.
(Translated from Noget om (manglende) fokus, originally published March 27, 2016)
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