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20.08.2024

What ripple effects does your action have?

What ripple effects does your decision have?

Have you seen ripple effects unfold before?

Many events have unforeseen ripple effects.

Ripple effects that influence many people.

That influences whole ecosystems.

The batting of a butterfly may cause a tornado.

How can you cause better ripple effects?

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19.08.2024

What does saying yes cost you?

How much financially?

What other costs are there?

Have you thought about these before?

Saying yes to a project has more than financial costs.

Opportunity costs: what else do you need to say no to?

It will cost you time.

It might cost you reputation.

It might cost you relationships

It might cost you peace of mind.

It might cost you your values.

Consider the full spectrum carefully before committing.

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18.08.2024

How do you react to bad news?

What emotions come up for you?

When bad news hits you,

take a moment and stop yourself.

Stop yourself from pessimistic thoughts,

stop yourself from unreflected actions.

For every pessimistic thought,

create an optimistic one.

With this you create balance.

With this you create options.

Options lead to better decisions.

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17.08.2024

You can see a disaster unfolding...

What do you do?

You can see a solution clearly,

yet you cannot stop it.

How do you deal with this?

Often we can only watch it unfold.

Many things we cannot control.

Other people do what they want.

Often to our detriment.

Watch it unfold and deal with the consequences.

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16.08.2024

How do you react to hate?

Hate towards you?

Hate towards others?

Your own hate?

We encounter hate everywhere.

There is no hiding from it anywhere.

What is the origin of hate?

Have compassion for the hater.

For they hate themselves just as much.

And more hate breeds more of it.

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15.08.2024

What did you decide in the past?

Is the decision still valid?

Why did you decide this way?

What has changed since then?

Most decisions are not eternal.

You are not obliged to finish what you started.

You can stop, if you accept the consequences.

What awaits you when you change trajectory?

What awaits you when you hold the path?

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14.08.2024

You hit a plateua, what do you do?

What goes on in your head?

Why did you hit a plateau?

Is it worth overcoming?

Plateaus are part of improving.

Improving at anything you do.

Sometimes it is a matter of more practice.

Sometimes it is a matter of different practice.

Sometimes you just need a break.

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12.08.2024

How important are you?

Who are you important for?

What is your contribution?

Why should you be important?

Our lives are unimportant,

in comparison to the world.

To the time the world has been around.

To the amount of other people.

To the impact we can have.

We are not as important as we think.

Be of service to whom it makes a difference.

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11.08.2024

How sentimental are you?

When do you show emotions?

How much do you show?

Maybe too much?

Maybe too little?

Who do you share them with?

Sentimentality is subjective.

When, how, and who to share with -

all a personal preference.

Think about how much to share,

with whom and when.

Not everyone will cherish your sentimentality.

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10.08.2024

When are you frustrated?

Why are you frustrated then?

How do you react to your frustration?

Frustration shows that you care.

Frustration shows that you want more.

More quality, more progress, more results.

Frustration will show you your values.

Frustration can guide you forward.

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09.08.2024

How do you learn?

Is this the best way for you?

What would be the best method?

What did you pick up easily?

How did you do it?

We all learn things differently.

What works for you won't for others.

And vice versa.

Find your way and hone the method.

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08.08.2024

How often are promises made do you?

How often are you disappointed?

How many do you make?

How often do you disappoint?

Why do you make them?

Why do you not keep them?

Why do others do the same?

We all make and break promises.

Make fewer promises.

Make them for the right reasons.

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07.08.2024

Do you try to keep things simple?

How is that going for you?

What in life is truly simple?

What in life only seems it is?

How simple are people?

How well do you judge them?

Life is complex and yet simple.

People are complex and yet simple.

No simplicity without complexity.

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06.08.2024

What new opportunity are you considering?

How do you evaluate it?

Would you stray from your path?

Is it the right fit for you?

Opportunities are thrown at us left and right.

They are presented to us on a shiny platter.

Who doesn't love a great deal?

Yet a great deal for whom?

Remind yourself of your chosen path.

Does the opportunity lie on this path?

Or will it take you down into a valley?

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05.08.2024

How well do you keep order?

How quickly does your disorder spread?

Can you contain disorder in one area of your life?

What is the tipping point in your disorder?

Disorder is like a plague.

If you let it rage in one area, it will spread everywhere.

Beyond a tipping point, cleaning up is agony.

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04.08.2024

What do you worry about most?

How you want to be?

What you want to do?

What you want to have?

Be, do, have is the order of importance.

Yet, we turn it around.

We compare what we have with others.

We then worry about professions.

Who then cares about who they are?

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03.08.2024

How often do you have a bad day?

How do you feel then?

How do you behave?

How patient are you with others?

On bad days we can be horrible people.

Are you hard on yourself then?

It is ok to have bad days.

No one is a great person every day.

Being the bad one here and then is part of life.

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02.08.2024

How do you learn things?

Do you try to understand?

Do you just try to know?

Visual, Auditory, Read/Write, or Kinaesthetic?

Everyone learns differently.

Each situation requires a different depth.

Sometimes we learn by memory.

Sometimes we need to understand.

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01.08.2024

How good are the questions you ask yourself?

When do you ask them?

How often do you pose the questions?

Your life is as good as the questions you ask.

Not just of other people, but also of yourself.

Why do you do what you do?

What brings you joy?

What drives you?

There are many more. Go ask them.

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31.07.2024

How do you take others' negative reactions?

How does it make you feel?

How do you react to it?

Why did you perceive it as negative?

We receive reactions to our actions daily.

We perceive many as negative.

We take most of them personally.

Not all are negative, and most are not personal.

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