TEDONA #63
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail...
Quotes
1- “It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!” -Robert T. Kiyosaki
2- "Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans." -John Lennon
3- “The man who chases two rabbits soon finds himself with none.” — Chinese proverb
4- "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
5-"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier." -Mother Teresa
6- "What doesn’t need to get done don’t need to be done." Teronie J. Donaldson (yep, that's me cool right?)
Notes/Observations
Every time I broke out of my comfort zone this week I improved.
So ... Are you willing to be uncomfortable for 5 minutes?
Exercising is easier once you've started the workout.
The conversation is easier once you're already talking.
Writing is easier once you're in the middle of it.
But many rewards in life will elude you if you're not willing to be a little uncomfortable at first."
Articles
Watched
Strategy
Avoid the trap of self-pity
Author Cheryl Strayed on the trap of self-pity:
"Nobody's going to do your life for you. You have to do it yourself, whether you're rich or poor, out of money or raking it in, the beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice. And you have to do it no matter what is true. No matter what is hard. No matter what unjust, sad, sucky things befall you. Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It's up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out."
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things
Book of the Week
"Just as I am" by Cicely Tyson
"Just As I Am is my truth. It is me, plain and unvarnished, with the glitter and garland set aside. In these pages, I am indeed Cicely, the actress who has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. Yet I am also the church girl who once rarely spoke a word. I am the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. I am a daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend. I am an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. I am a woman who has hurt as immeasurably as I have loved, a child of God divinely guided by His hand. And here in my ninth decade, I am a woman who, at long last, has something meaningful to say.” –Cicely Tyson
Throughout her memoir, Tyson reflects on her journey from her early life, in which she shares the story of her early pregnancy; her career jump-start as a model, which would eventually lead to acting; and her up and down relationship with jazz legend Miles Davis.
I found this book to be a refreshing look at the life of an entertainment icon.
Question
Every time I broke out of my comfort zone this week I improved incrementally.
Think about this - Exercising is easier once you've started the workout.
Hard conversations get easier once you're already talking.
Writing is easier once you're in the middle of it.
Everything gets a bit easier once you go through the initial discomfort
So ... Are you willing to be uncomfortable for 5 minutes?