“If you set your bar at ‘amazing,' it's awfully difficult to start… The only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are. For now.
There's a big difference between not settling and not starting.”
For the full quote:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/05/overcoming-the-impossibility-of-amazing.html
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other.”
I'll be giving a session for women on life planning and goal setting at the upcoming Limitless Conference on May 10-11.
Their website provides a description of the conference, as follows:
“What would you be ready to achieve in your life if all limits were stripped away? Join us for this one-of-a-kind women's conference and learn how you too can live LIMITLESS. Conference speakers include Olympians: Amber Neben (cyclist), Leah Amico (Softball) and Tori Pena (pole vaulter) who have learned to break through limits of their sports and personal lives.
Once the limits are stripped away you will be able to explore your next steps through workshops in many different areas of your life (choose two) – finances, parenting, health & fitness, life plan & goal setting, the joy of being single, marriage, managing life changes, art and creativity, soul care and olympian forum.”
If you are interested in attending, use the promo code “Limitless” to get half off the registration fee.
Also, if you have any questions you would like to see answered, or advice to give on the topic of life planning and goal setting, feel free to get engaged in the comments section below.
I hope to see some of you there.
“Acting on what matters is the act of making change in the world through a set of personal values that define who we are.”
When you love your work that much… the only way to get out of trouble is to go deeper in. We must enter, not evade, the tangles of teaching so we can understand them better and negotiate them with more grace, not only to guard our own spirits but also to serve our students well.