Eric asked for this. A real Annual Review to use.
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Choose to work hard on what makes you feel alive. Share your gifts to the world. The world needs your talents not another version of someone else’s.
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It’s easy to spend time but difficult to spend it wisely. Life is filled with opportunities for both. It’s our job to find the ideal balance.
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Humans hate being bad at anything. As adults, we go out of our way to avoid feeling incompetent. How silly.
To be good at anything we must first be bad.
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The most impactful decisions in life are not likely complex or complicated.
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The last thing you’re looking for is more opinions disguised as “advice” about what you should do after graduating in May. Well work and working are two topics that I’ve spent way too much time thinking about over the years, so it would be a waste if I can’t regurgitate my thoughts to my friend.
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This write-up is my take on Julian’s exercise! I lay out what the top 5 values are for me when considering projects and career opportunities. From there I rank the past four opportunities that I acted on in my work-life as a testing ground. I’m doing this exercise based on career opportunities. If I were doing it for my entire life, values relating to my faith and more specifically my family, would rank near the top.
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Christopher Alexander is an architecture professor/philosopher who writes about a specific Quality. By Quality he is referring to a feeling of warmth and aliveness versus cold and staleness. This feeling can be felt all around us from within our home and yard to observing a piece of art. It applies to most people, places, and things.
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These are the most impactful books I read in 2020.
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I believe everything we do in life is part of a plan. Sometimes the plan goes as intended, and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s part of the plan. Realizing this is a greenlight in itself.
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We won’t enjoy clear thinking until we stop our endless consumption. There's no way to comprehend all of the information bombarding us each day. Social feeds, blogs, news, Netflix, and endless Substacks. It's too easy to aimlessly scroll, click, and skim until we are numb.
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When in doubt, I reach for one of these when I need a reminder or nugget of wisdom.
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Happiness = Results - Expectations
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In nature we learn that we are all connected even if we have forgotten that kind of belonging. The implications of this are profound. If it is true that we are one great being, then inside each of us is the chance for a different world.
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A family is only as happy as its unhappiest member.
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All benefits in life come from compound interest, whether in money, relationships, love, health, activities, or habits.
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What you think you want isn’t always what’s best for you.
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Why are we drawn to certain people, places, and things?
There are items we gravitate towards, others that repel us away, and some that don’t even show up on our radar. I recently found the best explanation in an unlikely spot, an architecture textbook, “The Timeless Way of Building.”
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