TIS BULLETIN: 28th May, 2021
Thought for the Week
Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
~ Olympia Dukakis
Thought for the Week
Follow your heart, your instincts. People might try to dissuade you from your passion, but no one can live your life but you.
~ Olympia Dukakis
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The Paradox of Focus: Make the most of one opportunity and more opportunities will come your way. Moving boldly in one direction causes more paths to unfold before
you. To get more, focus on less.
~ James Clear
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. Explore. Dream. Discover.
~ Mark Twain
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
~ Voltaire
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Being busy isn’t the same thing as adding value.
~ Shane Parrish
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The person who wins the Nobel Prize in biology is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It’s the person who knew what to look for. Cultivating that capacity to seek what’s significant, always willing to question whether you’re on the right track, that’s what education is going to be about, whether it’s using computers and internet, or pencil and paper and books.”
~ Noam Chomsky
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New goals don’t deliver new results. New lifestyles do. And a lifestyle is a process, not an outcome. For this reason, your energy should go into building better habits, not chasing better results.
~ James Clear
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Books are more likely to change minds than conversations. There is too much happening internally during conversation: Did that sound stupid? What do they think of me? Will I lose the friendship over this opinion? Books can let you chew on an idea without social risk.
~ James Clear
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Sometimes you forget that just beyond the clouds the sun is shining.
~ Desmond Tutu
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Don’t ask kids what they want to be when they grow up. Ask them what problem they want to solve.
~ Jamie Casa
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The most important step in becoming successful in anything is to first become interested in it.
~ Sir William Osler
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
~ Rosa Parks
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An expert is someone who, over many years, manages to remain confident enough to keep trying and humble enough to keep learning.
~ James Clear
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You never put things in front of you that let you think you’ve arrived. Always have that level of deprivation, so you know there’s more to come.
~ Marcus O’Sullivan
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Slowing down enables you to act in a high quality way. Kind rather than curt. Polished rather than sloppy. It’s hard to be thoughtful when you’re in a rush.
~ James Clear
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Don’t bother to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
~ William Faulkner
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Three simple ways to get more of what you want in life. Be kind and pleasant to others. Ask for what you want. Follow up.
~James Clear
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Having just the vision is no solution. Everything depends on execution.
– Stephen Sondheim
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It’s better to be alone than to spend time with toxic people It’s better to do nothing than to work on something that doesn’t matter. It’s better to rest than to climb the wrong mountain.
~ James Clear
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When in doubt, just say thank you. There is no downside. Are you honestly worried about showing too much gratitude to the people in your life?
~ James Clear
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Think of many things. Do one.
~ Portuguese Proverb
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Failure is just practice for success.
~ Anon
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Don’t be perfect, just keep getting better.
~ Frank Peretti
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Before you can look at someone else, you gotta look at yourself in the mirror; because that’s how things get started. You’ve got to be willing to change and you’ve gotta have a sense of pride about yourself.
~ Michael Jordan
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It’s better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonise at length and be right too late.
~ Marilyn Moats Kennedy
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There is one secret to success and that is passion. If you are passionate about what you believe in and what you want to achieve, then you are halfway there before you start. Your passion will become the foundation and driver for the elements of success that will be determined eventually by you.
~ Dr Ken Darvall
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Success is always personal. Each goal we set should be a personal challenge. The challenge must be realistic and incremental. We should always be looking at improving our personal best.
~ Dr Ken Darvall
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts
us to the test.
~Isabel Allende
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Learning should not be compliant. It should not be boring. It should be meaningful, fun, relevant and create a lasting impact.
~ A J Juliani
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One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
~ Frederick Buechner
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Mindset. The trick is in what one emphasises. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
~ Carlos Castaneda
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
~ Albert Einstein
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Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson l be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott
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Always make sure you’re doing little experiments every day to move yourself forward on the things you’re interested in.
~ James Altucher
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Speech is a very important aspect of being human. A whisper doesn’t cut it.
~James Earl Jones
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As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
~ Seneca
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The bad days are more important than the good days. If you write or exercise or meditate or cook when you don’t feel like it, then you maintain the habit. And if you maintain the habit, then all you need is time.
~ James Clear
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Two simple rules that make saying yes harder and saying no easier:
1. Don’t say yes on the spot.
2. When you do say yes to something, schedule when you’re going to do it in your calendar right away. Book twice as much time as you think it will take to do it right. Both rules are helpful, but the
second rule is perhaps more important. Scheduling the work helps you realize that saying yes has a very real cost. By scheduling double the time, you’ll avoid overcommitting and have the flexibility to take advantage of opportunities that arise.
~ Shane Parrish
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