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30.07.2024

How do you remember people from the past?

What do you expect when you meet again?

How do expectations and reality compare?

Had you known, what would have changed?

People can change, a lot.

Often they actually do given enough time.

Be careful what you expect.

Be open for what might be.

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29.07.2024

How do you weigh up Love with Money?

Is this possible?

Do you actually want to do it?

Why would you want to?

You cannot replace love with money.

You can use money to buy time.

Time is an ingredient for love.

Quality time is the currency to create love.

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28.07.2024

How `good is your initial impression?

How important is others' initial impression for you?

Where does the initial impression matter?

Initial impressions are crucial.

Crucial in anything we do.

Be it when we write something,

when we present something,

when we meet new people.

Put some effort into it, practice it, impress.

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27.07.2024

How do you view life?

In either/or terms or in both/and terms?

Which way has reaped better results for you?

Why could that be?

We tend to think in black and white, either/or terms.

However, life is complex, and both/and thinking trumps.

Most things come in polarities, pairs of opposition.

Usually, we cannot easily choose one, but work with both.

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26.07.2024

How much has Fortuna smiled upon you?

How much in comparison to others?

How envious are you of others?

How grateful are you for it?

There is always someone more lucky than us.

There is also always someone less lucky than us.

Your challenges are a field-day for someone.

Your challenges are also a disaster for someone.

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25.07.2024

How does time pass you?

How does this depend on your situation?

How does this depend on your thoughts?

How effective do you use your time?

Time can pass by insanely fast.

Time can also creep by like a snail.

Things can be intense, too intense.

Things can be rather boring.

Time is what we make of it.

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24.07.2024

How do you respond to a task well done?

With someone you work with?

With your children, partner, or parents?

With yourself?

We tend to focus on criticism.

The drive for constant improvement.

Do you honor a job well done?

Do you communicate this enough?

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23.07.2024

What happens when you take a step forward?

How do people react to it?

How does it make you feel?

How do you react to it?

The evolution of yourself calls upon barriers.

Part of this evolution is to break through these.

This will challenge your confidence.

This will challenge your resolve.

It is a sign of taking the right step.

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22.07.2024

How do you react to feedback?

How does it make you feel?

Does it make you anxious?

Do you get defensive?

What is there to worry about?

Defending yourself shuts down the opportunity.

The opportunity to learn, improve, and connect.

Stay open, even if it is hard.

Take it in, and reflect on it later.

Beware, not all feedback is worthy to take by heart.

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21.07.2024

What kind of life do you want to live?

Which practices does that require?

Which routines make sense in your vision?

Often, we focus too much on routines.

A routine is a collection of practices, in a specific order.

The important parts are the practices.

They are the content of the life you live.

What matters more?

Doing the right thing or doing it in the right order?

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20.07.2024

How are you experiencing life?

Are you trying to prolong your life?

Are you trying to enjoy your life?

Are you fully aware of the present unfolding?

You can try to prolong your life.

You can try to improve your life.

Intesivy what you experience rather than prolong.

Short Intense bliss beats drawn-out misery.

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19.07.2024

Do you believe that anything you do is your choice?

Do you own what happened to you?

Why did you make each choice?

Not everything that happens is our choice.

But how much of it is our choice?

Pretend that everything has been your choice.

Answer, why you chose it and be enlightened.

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18.07.2024

How do you react to unpleasant situations?

Do you try to ignore them?

Do you pretend it is positive?

Do you refuse to accept it?

Situations are what they are.

Acceptance of the situation is crucial.

It is the first step of the path.

Accept to solve, to improve, to conquer.

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17.07.2024

How much of your time is killed by unforeseen events?

How often do you have to wait in line?

How often is your transport delayed?

How often do you have no-shows?

How do you feel when it happens?

Carry around a good book.

The kind is of no importance.

Waiting will become bliss for you.

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16.07.2024

How do you behave in front of others?

Do you show your true self?

Or do you present a public persona?

How deep are the acquaintances you make?

Showing your authentic self is challenging.

Sometimes, people will take advantage.

Some people won't like you.

But who matters more?

The people that like YOU or those who don't?

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15.07.2024

Where do you look to more, inward or outward?

Where do you get your creativity from?

Where do you get your motivation from?

Where does life really happen for you?

We can be overly outward-focused.

Remember to take time and look inside.

Go and mine those hidden gems within you.

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14.07.2024

How difficult are the things you attempt?

What do you have to lose, if you fail?

Does this make you stick in your comfort zone?

How well do you learn from easy things?

Desirable difficulty is just difficult enough.

It is barely out of reach.

It will make you improve, a lot.

Staying in your comfort zone is poisonous.

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13.07.2024

Do the people you work with, have skin in the game?

Will doing a bad job create a consequence for them?

Will it create a consequence for you?

Whose consequences are bigger?

Skin in the game creates responsibility.

Responsibility is a prerogative for quality.

How can you create more skin in the game for your partners?

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12.07.2024

Is no Evidence of harm the same as Evidence of no harm?

Who is responsible to provide evidence of their view?

The one doing potential harm?

The one suspecting potential harm?

Do not confuse the two.

They are not the same, yet often put equal.

When there is no evidence, it is a prompt to look deeper.

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11.07.20241

How much do you credit chance?

For your successes?

For your failures?

Which random encounters were game-changers?

For good and for bad?

We tend to credit chance too little.

If you are honest it plays a huge role,

both in success and failure.

Learn to work with it and use it to your advantage.

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