Tag: effectiveness

A Meditation On Motivation 

Carl Setzer

​The question you should be asking isn’t “what do I want?” or “what are my goals?” but “what would excite me?”

~Tim Ferris

I’m still not sure what it is “I want”, in terms of a long-range vision. Or, more specifically, what it’s is I don’t want. Rejecting ideas, goals, opportunities is what’s hard for me. It’s hard to say “no” to opportunities, even ones that haven’t materialized, or even transitioned slightly from concept to reality.

Having too many things on your to-do list is a sure way to fail at everything.

Saying “No” is the kernel of planning, of living a life of vision, mission and purpose.

When we think in terms of excitement and energy, the challenge of choice changes. I find it much easier to deselect things that don’t energize me. That are boring, draining. Cool sounding things often change when we consider the actual work.

Spend as much time as possible doing activities which give you strength, energy and life.

A Haiku About Change 

Carl Setzer

Out of darkness: light 

Our souls evolving forwards 

Dawn coming out of night 

Change, changes: babies become children, children grow tall, dawns become days, winter becomes spring. As we learn, we grow. Experiences grant us wisdom and insight. Often hard won wisdom. Every day we’re different. 

I’m exploring new ideas as a blogger. What interests me right now? Positivity. 

I’ve been thinking for some time that our culture focuses too much on outrage, anger and despair. Everything from our news foci to our political selections get made based upon such. We’ve become deeply divided, deeply distrustful of each other. We’ve come to a point of gridlock. Which is blamed upon the other side’s idiocy (at best) or evil intent. 

I want to focus on a different path. The current mindset has no way forward. At best, one side will temporarily gain enough if an advantage to steamroll through an agenda, fueling outrage on the opposite side. I believe there’s a better way. 

I believe we can seek out inspiration instead of outrage. That we can be motivated by this inspiration to move in a common direction. That we don’t need to gorge at the trough of outrage. 

We can embrace the power of the individual, of our ability to adapt and grow. Yet we can do so without a Pollyannaish disconnect from reality. Nor do we need to divorce the reality of societal systems dysfunctionality. 

I believe there’s a path where we can embrace humility and accept our incomplete understandings. That we can learn to love those different. 
I haven’t developed a clear vision of what that works looks like, for its quite alien from mine. We can explore it together. Shall we?

Growth Requires Focus

Carl Setzer

Greatness comes from work 

Passion needs to be nurtured 

Always seek to grow

Tonight’s Haiku: Rain Gently Falls 

Carl Setzer

This good day now ends 

Accomplishing many things

Rain’s gently falling 

Good Ol’ Dilbert and To-Do Lists

Carl Setzer

Well, I still like making to-do lists. To be more specific, I like checking the boxes off as “complete”.

 

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The Life Affirming Steven Covey’s “Big Rocks” Video

Carl Setzer

This concept had a powerful impact upon how I see the world. With that, this video was life-changing.

A very basic notion: take a moment and figure out what’s most important. Then act on that. Schedule those things FIRST, then work everything else in.

Nothing more dreadful to imagine than, at the end of my life, realizing I never did what’s truly important to me.

That said, watch this. Then act on it.

https://youtu.be/ciBRcrOgFJU

Embrace Your Boldest Dreams

Carl Setzer

Embrace your bold dreams 

Seek the extraordinary

Become all you can

Monday Thought

Carl Setzer

Here’s a positive way to look at Mondays.

And, if you have no mistakes from last week to clean up, then it’s a great day to set a productive rhythm.

Greatness

Carl Setzer

​Every great thing

At the start

Was against the

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The Respect of ‘why’, or Obedient Serfs Don’t Innovate

Carl Setzer

A mediation on today’s post by Seth Godin: “The respect of ‘why'”.

Questionsall was my first Twitter handle, and is the title of my poetry blog, and my very first site here on Blogger.  I deeply value questioning, on probing. I don’t accept things at face value.

I believe the path to a great life comes through questions.

  1. What do I want to do with my life?
  2. What feeds my soul?
  3. What makes my heart soar?
  4. What steals my energy? My passion? My joy?

Wise leaders accept the value of questioning. Everyone on the team needs to value the mission, share the dream and the goals. Then, and only then, will you have a team of innovators.

Obedient serfs don’t innovate!

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