On a scale of 1 -10 how #stressed are you? I overheard a small business owner respond '8' and my wife is at 9.5! Wow 9.5! Incidentally they don't reside in Syria, but do have two healthy kids, a house, car, retirement portfolio, passive income and a multitude of friends and family. There s a danger that we frame a downturn in our business in such dramatic terms. Context is a great sanity drug. If we make happiness an impossible Everest to attain then the moderate slings and arrows of the daily grind really will bring us down. Embrace the moment and dial down imagined fears. Connect on LINKEDIN if you like.
If you are 50 years old or more you've shared the planet with at least 10% of all homeo sapiens who have lived since 50,000 BC.*
(* Source http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/) If you were born yesterday the number is closer to 6%. #population_growth The considerable upside is the cumulative intellectual abundance we're exposed to. In 18 years we'll be competing for resources, power, employment, status, significance...or collaborating with the estimated 350,000 new borns who showed up yesterday, will show up again today, and everyday for the forceable future. #Collaboration is a much more sustainable long game. |
This is a confronting and provocative question. It presumes there’s a gap in your life and that you are in some way failing, falling short of your own expectations. If The Law of Attraction does indeed work, how then do we explain how bad things happen to good people? How can we explain how the worst of criminals can win the Lottery? Indeed we can question whether this much-quoted Law is in fact a myth. The point of this article is not to ponder the riddle of this apparent phenomenon or get bogged down in the mire of attempting to define the intangible. Rather I would like to posit the following commentary. Let’s twist the above question. Imagine that despite your initial reaction to the topic, that you are indeed living the dream, but have failed to realize this fact. Perhaps your appreciation lens is clouded. Perhaps you are with your ideal life partner but are blinded to this fact by virtue of your incessant fantasizing of some parallel universe where some
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