La crise, quelle crise ?

Catégorie : Idea

  • Day 470 – The struggle

    Day 470Some days are better than others. Some days, you struggle on that idea, you stumble upon this concept, you are not clear, ideas are blurred. One of those days. It’s what Steven Pressfield, the author of the War of Art, calls resistance. Resistance is my struggle, the little devil that spoils my effort, the nasty little voice that says you will not be able to do it.

    You get rid of the struggle IMHO in two steps:

    1. Acknowledging the struggle is real. Because it is, if you struggle do not ignore it or do not bang your head on your table, fighting the struggle with its own power, it will only reinforce it. The struggle’s power increase with your energy to fight it.
    2. Ignoring it by acting. Do not fight the struggle, change the action. The struggle will die by itself and next time or a further time, it will disappear like magic.

    Everybody has the capacity to win over our own struggles, doing it with sheer force will result in energy drain. We have to be smarter, and we can!

  • Day 469 – The most powerful word for productivity

    Day 469It’s one of the shortest word in many languages and what I consider the most powerful. It’s one that will allow to unleash the best ever productivity and stay focus. It’s one my kids prefer when asking them to do something. And yet, it’s one we fear to pronounce sometimes to avoid the discussion. It’s the word No!

    • Do say No to people who want to overload you with stuff they can’t do
    • Do say No to tasks you have no bandwidth to execute well
    • Do say No to events that do not fit into your goals or interests

    We have just one life to be great, do not let outside forces draw you away from delivering your greatness, learn to say No, with a smile!

  • Day 468 – What if…?

    I like this question, with an ellipsis, what if…? What if people were nice? What if the earth was turning west? What if plastic was entirely forbidden? And so on. When you are stuck on a problem, what-if allows the mind to wander in places it would not normally go to. It’s said Einstein discovered relativity while seeing himself riding a photon. Whether it’s true or not is irrelevant, what matters is the question he asked, what if I was riding a photon?

    Progress is only made possible by the virtues of chance, necessity or intelligence. A what-if question allows all dimensions to play together to find rather spectacular answers. Human imagination knows no limit, tap into it, it’s one of those resource you cannot deplete!

  • Day 467 – Growth or decline?

    We hear from time to time proponents of economic decline to stop environment and development challenges. But what if human beings had only hope to barely survive and stop growing, personally, socially, economically, and spiritually? It would be the beginning of a steady decline that will eventually lead to death. Humans need to grow, we have the intelligence to grow holistically, it’s a matter of choice and conviction. The best is yet to come!

  • Day 466 – Change

    Day 466So much have been written on change, and this article, entitled Why We Stay In Crappy Situations (And How To Get Out Of Them), by its simplicity I think struck a chord. I particularly liked the following sentence in the solution part: « We must be willing to surrender what we are for what we can become. » You cannot grow into a butterfly if you do not abandon your chrysalides.

    As Robin Sharma rightly says: Change is tough at the beginning, messy in the middle and gorgeous in the end.

    Keep the end in sight and run for change! And do not listen to naysayers that keep repeating that worse is coming! Run!